VLVL The Pisk Sisters--JAPs?

[Dave Monroe]

This like french fries?  Or "freedom fries," as
absolutely nobody actually calls them here.  Cf.
"libert cabbage" (sauerkraut) ca. WWI ...

--- Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi> wrote:
> 
> Danish is, not surprisingly, a very common pastry
> in Denmark and other Nordic countries too. Devoured
> usually with coffee at any time of the day - the
> Scandinavians are the heaviest coffee drinkers in
> the world.

Allegedly, we (in Wisconsin, that is, not the U.S. in
genral) have the world's highest per-capita brandy
consumption.  Which is why you can't get a proper
Manhattan and/or Stinger here ...
 
> Only that the Danes themselves call
> it "wienerbroed"... and it is what equals "Viennese
> bread" in Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish too.
> We would never associate "wieners" with little
> sausages up here.

Howzabout frankfurters?  Hamburgers, for that matter
... but, hey, thanks for the recommendation/revelation
here ...

> P.S. Talking of Vienna, been reading David Luft's
> admirable _Robert Musil and the Crisis of European
> Culture 1880-1942_. On the page 203 he writes as
> follows: "Shortly after the war [WWI], Musil was
> working with material for seven novels, and a
> different sort of novelist would have found
> fulfillment in writing and publishing all of them.
> He kept shifting and reforming material to find
> the structure he needed. Eventually, all of his
> conceptions, except the experimental moral-satiric
> novels of science fiction, found their way in
> _The Man without Qualities_ in some form."
> 
> I've never heard of Musil's science fiction plans
> before - anyone?

Let us know soon as you find out.  Thanks!  Again!

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