#czech egg

[owlmaya]

i drew bingyuan celebrating easter the czech way!

to explain: on easter monday the boys hit girls with a braided willow whip, which is supposed to keep them young, and in return they give the boys easter eggs (sometimes they also add a ribbon to the whip)

it’s a pretty unique easter tradition, so aside from it being silly and fun, i also wanted to share it (because im czech)

[drewlyyours]

LOOK WHAT I FOUND

For those who don’t know, I’m a museum curator and I found this old box of chocolates in the archives (don’t worry, there was no chocolate in there. Oddly, they DID leave the wrappers when they donated it.

The back says: “This tin is a replica of one in a series of original Salmagundi tins introduced by Whitman’s Candies in 1924. Salmagundi was the beautiful and mysterious woman, painted by Alphonse Mucha, who graced the center of each tin. The tin design captures the handwork of the Near East through its use of intricate recurring mosaic tiles and colors.”

(The painting itself is called Zodiac, 1896)

[pagan-stitches]

Kraslice — Czech Easter eggs.

[zaviracinozik]

1 letošní kraslice. Kreslit na objekt tohoto tvaru je výzva, které nelze odolat. Akrylové fixy, skořátka slepičího vejce.

[black-rose-writings]

It's that time of the year again - time to argue with my mom about why I'm uncomfortable participating in the "symbolic violence against women "for their own good"" holiday.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

do people in the sonic fandom who aren’t nerds know that eggman is probably czech (which makes sense bc the modern concept of robots was originated by a czech writer and it’s a czech word) or was baby me just really weird

[eggnoodles0up]

do you guys even fucking kNOw about samorost,,, or machinarium,,, OR BOTANICULA,,,,,

[mouseandboo]

Postcrossing CZ-2101448 by Gail Anderson Via Flickr: Easter postcard with a picture of a painting done by a disabled artist in the Czech Republic. Sent by a Postcrossing member in that country.

[carnalhaus]

What do you mean by Duska being dead? Does she have some sort of zombie or vampire situation going on, or am I correct in assuming it's something more complicated?

duska is very weirdly dead

i only posted about her maybe twice here, so most people don’t really know what happened with her

she was a ballerina, and so stubborn and dedicated to her craft that she tore up her body on a daily basis and refused to let it rest. the pain was so horrid that she became dependent on opioid painkillers, so much so that she suffered an overdose onstage during a performance and subsequently died in front of the audience. duska was never well liked, she was rude, defensive, overachieving, she didn’t have any friends and frankly didn’t care to make any. she was very well liked by instructors though, not for her attitude, but for her talent and dedication. despite this, nearly all of her classmates ended up quitting shortly after her death.

duska’s reanimation really has no basis in science or the supernatural, she just came back. whether she’s a zombie or a ghost or something in between is unexplained. duska is the same old duska, aside from the fact she retains all her symptoms from what killed her: cold clammy skin, depressed breathing, pinpoint pupils, dizziness, blue lips and fingernails, weak pulse, low blood pressure, nausea, drowsiness. she lives in a perpetual state between life and death, her weak pulse is the only thing keeping her going, and she never seems to fully permeate the curtain for either state.

it’s perhaps a symbol for just how stubborn she really was in life, duska schovajsa was so determined that she even refused to die.

she died in the 90s, and nowadays looks just as she used to at 24. she seems to repeat her routine just like she used to, while somehow never being fully there. she’s noticed sure, but nobody really recognizes her, and they forget she was ever there as soon as she leaves. she’s a “living” ghost if that makes sense.

[mirtapersonal]

🥚

[dasistleeway]

This pension is by far the best one I've ever stayed, friendly staff, beautifully designed room, and the à la carte breakfast was just amazing...

[pagan-stitches]

Last year’s onion skin dyed eggs. 🧅 🧅 🥚 🐣

[artsystudiofinds]

Excited to share rustic moldavite ring handcrafted in silver in nature theme

[chiara-klara-claire]

funny ways to say “in the middle of nowhere”

Collected funny ones under this post + contributions to this one (my selection). Most involve ass(holes), have god/the devil, (nonsense) names of villages…

🇩🇪German: in the ass of the world/ the pasture- am Arsch der Welt/der Weide; where Fox and Hare bid each other good night - Wo sich Fuchs und Hase Gute Nacht sagen (old-fashioned), where the dead dog lays - Da liegt der tote Hund, in Buxtehude/ (Kuh)kaff, in der Pampa, in Timbuktu

🇮🇹Italian: in assland - in culonia/culandia, in the wolves’ ass - in culo ai lupi, in the ass of the word - in culo al mondo; 🇫🇷 French in the asshole of the world - dans le trou du cul du monde

🇨🇿Czech: Where foxes bid good night to one another - Kde si lišky dávají dobrou noc

🇩🇰Danish: where the crows turn around - Hvor kragerne vender on Lars diarrheas field/on the field of Lars Shitpants - På lars tyndskids mark

🇳🇴Norwegian: far damn from violence - langt pokker i vold, “huttaheiti” (gibberish)

🇸🇪Swedish: out (there) in the spinach - ute i spenaten,“tjotaheiti” (see above, maybe originally from Tahiti)

🇪🇸in Spain: in the fifth hell/pine tree - En el quinto infierno/pino, where Christ lost the sandal/hat/lighter - Donde Cristo perdió la alpargata/gorra/mechero;

🇲🇽 Mexico: Where the devil farts - Donde el diablo se echa un pedo, and sometimes someone answers: “Y nadie lo escucha” And no one hears

🇹🇼in Taiwan: where birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't shit - 鳥不生蛋狗不拉屎的地方 

🇵🇱Polish - where crows turn around -  Gdzie wrony zawracają, where dogs bark from their ass - gdzie psy dupami szczekają 🐶; Where the devil says goodnight - Gdzie diabeł mówi dobranoc, where (black) pepper grows - gdzie pieprz rośnie, (mostly in the context of running as far away as possible or chasing someone away)

🇦🇺Australia: woop woop or "in the middle of woop woop' 🇳🇿 NZ: wop wops

🇻🇳Vietnamese: holy forests, poisonous waters - rừng thiêng nước độc / where mountain passes are windy/cloudy and winds swirl in vortexes - đèo heo hút gió or đèo mây hút gió (rarely used)

🇨🇦🇫🇷 Québéc: Saint clin clin des meuhs meuhs (actual village name…)

🇸🇦 Arabic (Saudi dialect): in the castle of wadren في مقلاع وادرين (an old castle in the middle of desert)

🇮🇱 in Israel: Israel: at the end of the world, take a turn left - סוף העולם שמאלה

🇫🇮Finnish: behind God’s back - jumalan selän takana, in the devil’s ass - helvetin perseessä;

🇬🇷 Greek: at the devil’s horn - Στου διαόλου το κέρατο;

🇧🇬 Bulgarian: on the ass of geography - На гъза на географията

🇮🇸 Icelandic Out in an asshole - úti í rassgati;

🇧🇷 in Brazil: in cock’s house - na casa do caralho;

🇦🇷 in Argentina: in the pussy of the parrot- en la concha de la lora 🦜;

🇪🇪 Estonian: in the bear's ass - karuperses 🐻

🇺🇸 USA: bumfuck Egypt

🇧🇪 in Belgium (Dutch): in a farmer’s asscrack - in een boerengat

🇺🇦 Ukrainian: in the devil's swamps в чорта на кулічках,  where the crow won't carry bones куди ворон кісток не заносить

[petermorwood]

@dduane bought these the other day, from one of the local supermarkets which stock Central / Eastern European things. Their label indicated their origin as Lithuania, but was entirely in English and described them, rather unhelpfully, as "mini meat pies".

They were more or less ready to eat, since "cooking" instructions called for no more than about 3-4 minutes in a hot oven, and very good they were, definitely finger-food to be consumed in about two bites.

They had a smoked meat filling, sufficiently unusual for "meat pies" that it started DD trying to find out what they REALLY were. Various helpful folk on Bluesky suggested various things (links are to recipe pages):

"kibinai", which are more similar in appearance to Cornish pasties than to these shiny little nibbles, and made with (unsmoked) mutton and onion.

"speķa pīrādziņi" or "speķrauši", smoked bacon dumplings from Latvia, so there's the flavour profile, but yet again a slightly different appearance.

"kolach" or "koláč" - I've given no recipe link because these are either sweet in their original version, or similar to a sausage roll in their American version, and in any case are Czech which takes them a lot further from Lithuania than Latvia is.

We've concluded that the ones we bought and devoured were probably lašinėčiai / ausytes or "bacon buns" - the taste would be right, the visual similarity is there, and in this photo needs only an egg wash to get shiny.

Why such determination to find out what they were?

(1) Curiosity.

(2) Intention to make them at home.

(2a) Intention to include a LOT more filling than the commercial ones, which were very good but gone too soon...

:->

[matan4il]

Hello hello, sending hugs as always!

I was hoping you maybe be able to give me some inspiration for a small series of food photos I'm assembling for Channukah! I'm doing an 8 part series celebrating the different groups within Judaism to 1. Be loudly and proudly Jewish at this current time, and 2. raise awareness for non-ashki Jews. In the UK it's super hard to find many non ashki peeps which makes it hard to chat to people about other classic Channukah foods, but I was wondering if you knew of any particularly good ones (that aren't latke or sufganiyot)? Would hugely appreciate any suggestions you have!!

Hi darling, sending you the biggest hugs right back! <3

Oooh, Hanukkah foods! I'm not gonna lie, some of my fave Jewish foods come from this holiday. With your permission, I'll give a small introduction, just for anyone reading, who might be unfamiliar with Hanukkah, and curious... and also talk about some of the lesser known Hanukkah food traditions among European Jews, too.

So during Hanukkah, we celebrate a miracle that happened with the oil at the Temple in Jerusalem. After the Jews defeated the occupying Greek forces that had desecrated our Temple, we wanted to light again the eternal flame of the Menorah (the Temple candelabra) with olive oil, but after the destruction caused by the Greek forces, there was only enough left for one day, and it would take 8 days to get more oil. The miracle is that somehow, that small amount of oil lasted for the whole 8 days, meaning the light didn't go out again. To remember this miracle, we eat food fried in oil! Being Jewish is so good for your health. XD

In shops and bakeries around Israel, there are already sufganiot being sold. They are YUMMY, and while some people call them "the Jewish donuts," I can say that after having eaten American donuts, I def think sufganiot are way yummier (in part 'coz they're not as "heavy" because the dough it's made of is fluffier? More... airy? Not sure how to say it, but I hope you get the idea). Also, you don't get robbed, because someone made a hole in the middle of the sufgania, taking out nearly half of it. The traditional type has strawberry jam injected inside, and sugar powder on top, but in Israel there are some crazy fancy kinds, and every year they seem to become more extravagant.

Traditional sufganiot (you can see a bit of the jam on top, but half the fun is biting and getting to the "treasure" of lots of jam at the center of the sufgania):

Fancy sufganiot:

Then there's the latkes, or as they're called in Hebrew, levivot. They're like savoury pancakes made out of potatoes, and obviously they're fried in oil.

In many Jewish communities, there was a custom of giving kids special pocket money for Hanukkah. In Israel, this "money" is given in the form of chocolate "coins." I freaking loved this as a kid! It was fun unwrapping the "coins," eating the chocolate, and then (assuming I was careful when peeling them off), make a collection of the different "coins," or just play with the wrap.

Greek Jews used to make a bread from potatoes and yogurt:

Georgian Jews made levivot out of corn flour (sometimes filled with cheese), or out of potatoes AND nuts, giving it the shape of a big omelette. Here's the corn flour version:

Czech Jews had a custom saying goose is the best meat, so for Hanukkah, they often ate goose related dishes. For example, they would make levivot from potatoes, eggs, sugar, lemon and goose fat.

French and Swiss Jews would make levivot out of apples.

The Jews of Iraq, Algeria and Buchara (which is in Uzbekistan) used to put the Hanukkah pocket money for the kids inside honey cakes. In Algeria and Buchara they also sometimes made levivot with meat added inside.

The Jews of Romania and Austria used to light potato Hanukkah candles! This was likely because they were so poor. Still, a pretty cool thing, when you can light your candle, and eat it (or at least a part of it), too.

In northern Africa, Jews used to make a type of cookie called Debla (sometimes nicknamed "dough roses"), which originated in Libya. They're usually eaten with a sweet syrup. It's more of a Purim dish (the equivalent of Hamantaschen), but was sometimes prepared for Hanukkah as well. Traditional Debla:

And a slightly "fancier" Israeli version:

Okay, maybe my fave Hanukkah dish! It's called sfinge (the 'ge' is pronounced like in "sponge"), and it's basically the Moroccan sufgania, which later became popular among Tunisia and Libya Jews, too. It can be round with a hole in the middle, it can be in the shape of a ball, while Libyan Jews make it flat. It's eaten with either honey or sugar powder, but again, in Israel fancier versions developed... I'm not a great cook, so IDK to explain why, but it's even fluffier than the sufgania, and that's why it's my personal fave.

Traditional sfinge with honey:

With sugar powder:

Israelis always having to make everything fancier:

They even made a savoury version of flat sfinge...

I hope this helps! Have a wonderful day, darling! xoxox