Condi Rice I'm Coming For Your Job - Part One

Last night the minature German gal from across the hall invited me to hang out with some of the folks from our floor in the 'common space'. I was pretty busy at the time charting some stuff on yahoo finance, but I accepted the invite anyways and headed to the main room.

Tonights topic: Germany. As I mentioned before there are a number of German kids on my floor, who are here mainly to study the hard sciences (biology and physics). Below is a summation of our conversation and what I learned.....

Musli - a popular grain cereal mix that is commonly eaten for breakfast and snacks throughout Germany. It can contain dried fruit in various proportions, as well as 'exotic' nuts like almonds and cashews. It goes well with yogurt and milk, or can simply be eaten from the palm of your hand like trail mix. It just so happened that I had a bag of the holy oats in my possesion. I retrieved it from my room for critique. Here is what was deduced....I purchased the 30% fruit mix. Apparently this is a mild mix of fruit and is a good beginner musli. They suggested that I slowly work my way down to a 10% mix so to maximize the nutritional value of the mixture by thus removing some of the sugar that is contained in the fruits. "If you feel you need more sugar you can always drink more beer" thanks Hans (pseudo name). The gal also chimed in that if I purchased the paper bags of musli, rather than the plastic, I would be less vulnerable to having a bag blowout where the musli would spill all over the floor. I guess she noticed the current condition of my bag which fell victim to my 'thrashing' when I first opened it.

Slang - I wanted to test drive some of the 'Germanic' phrases that our family has adopted over the years. This was an entertaining exercise. Below are the words/phrases covered and the verdict on each:

Kutzen - means to throw up or vomit. This is a real german verb!!

Kutz simony - means total disbelief, shock (I think). This threw the group for a loop. After many iterations of it and different pronounciations we determined this is not an actual phrase.

Hadda gutz enhiema - means oh my gosh. This again was met with grave stares as the group had no idea what this could possibly be.

So, in conclusion, our family is batting a .333 average which by most standards is good enough to make the bigs. Not too bad.