I'll take dos of those babies!

[muckefuck]

I figured my previous entry would prompt another alloglossic dream episode, and sure enough it did. In DUTCH.

I was visiting an Imbissstube (or, as I suppose the Dutch would say, "snackbar") with a full-colour picture menu above the window. In-between the uniform golden brown of various schnitzels and other fried meat products, there was some sort of sandwich with an invitingly green herb sauce. The run-on description used the term "speren", so I went up to the window and asked the pleasant Dutch couple who ran the place, "Wat is de 'spere'?" (Yes, I know it's not a real word; I'm fanatically about looking up such things as soon as I wake up. At the time, though, I congratulated myself on guessing the gender correctly.) As hard as I tried to speak Dutch to them, their replies were all in English. "The spere is a beverage," the woman told me. I tried to explain about the picture I'd seen, but it'd disappeared; all the pictures and descriptions on the menu were different. My dreamworld: A place where satisfaction is always deferred.

Comments

[areia.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Speren = plural of speer. Speer = spear -> phallic symbol in dream -> Freud. The fact that you couldn't get the kind of spear you wanted... well, I couldn't possibly comment on that.

;)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Because I mentioned that I wanted something with green vegetables, the woman helpfully offered to cook me a side of artichokes instead. Analyse THAT!

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

I espere you find a better definition. (What comes to mind is the woodruff syrup that goes with Weissbier sometimes, which is green, arguably a beverage, and could, in theory, also be put on a sandwich. If you know of a source for it in Chicago, I'd be curious.)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

http://www.germandeli.com/4054600095139.html

[tyrannio.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The "Sale price: $5.79 Notify me when back in stock" reminds me of the "when I don't have it, I sell it for that price too" joke.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Unidentified frying objects? Picture menus? Refusal to speak Dutch? This is a remarkably accurate dream-representation of the Netherlands.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

What about the fact that the snackbar was run by a middle-aged autochtonous Dutch couple? I guessed that might be a dead giveaway that this was fantasy.