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    2 months ago

    In Swabia, in southern Germany, there is a dish called Maultaschen, meat filled dumplings, which are also called Herrgottsbescheißerle (“Lord God Cheaters”), as the meat is wrapped in dough to be invisible to god.

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      2 months ago

      Was that to get around the no meat on Fridays rule? Could have just eaten an otter (it lives in water, so it must be a fish).

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        2 months ago

        Yes, in the past there were a lot of days were it was forbidden to eat meat, not only on Fridays and during the 40 days before Easter.
        Also beaver and turtle counted as fish.

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        Yes, jemanden bescheißen would literally translate “to shit onto somebody”, but it usually means jemanden betrügen i.e. “to cheat/betray somebody”, so Bescheißerle literally would translate to “shitters” but mean “cheaters”.

        Cheating the rules imposed by the church somehow has tradition, e.g. a Pharisäer (Pharisees) is a coffe with rum and whipped cream, similarly to an Irish Coffee.