WotD Cooperative Challenge: chewy

[muckefuck]

Chewy in the negative sense of "requiring an unpleasant amount of effort to bite or chew" isn't difficult to translate, since it's essentially synonymous with "tough". But translating the positive sense is much trickier, as discussions like this one lay bare. (For those of you who can't read German, several one-word possibilities are offered, but they are all non-standard dialect terms.) How would those of you who are fluent in other languages translate a sentence like, "I was worried they would be tough, but they came out nice and chewy."? (And are there several possibilities depending on what "they" refers to?)

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[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Actually, I've been meaning to ask you:

There's a family term "doppus" that's used for when someone is eating and messes up their shirt/blouse. It's not used in a mean way, but it's not used in any other situation. I've been told it's likely Low German of some sort (considering my family is all West German of some sort - Alsatian, Dutch, Wesphalian) but I'm not sure if it means anything in more common usage.

Any thoughts on this?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard it before, but then my exposure to Low German is slight. We (me, my boyfriend, and a few of our friends) have a word like that too, namely "to lou oneself". This commemorates an old acquaintance of mine who did this seemingly every time he ate. It's even more specific, really, as it means to drop food on that part of the shirt that juts out due to the curve of a beer belly.

[jrittenhouse.livejournal.com]

Wow, that *is* specific.