tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992599607086278068.post7412462928090751714..comments2014-10-17T14:37:15.010-05:00Comments on Fabled Orxata: Springtime for Hitler and GermanySteenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09254893646539431640noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992599607086278068.post-42699514729580663762012-02-20T20:39:04.693-06:002012-02-20T20:39:04.693-06:00P.S. Wow! That's interesting! I'm always i...P.S. Wow! That's interesting! I'm always intrigued when American staples are so relatively modern. For instance, chocolate chip cookies, which are a 1930s invention. What?! They weren't always around?? How did we live before that?! Drat, now I want pie and cookies.Steenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254893646539431640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992599607086278068.post-68756204224048119062012-02-15T12:20:48.295-06:002012-02-15T12:20:48.295-06:00Ack! More clever or cleverer! Typing fail!Ack! More clever or cleverer! Typing fail!Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00370486039531015541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992599607086278068.post-77733591586423330982012-02-15T12:20:23.669-06:002012-02-15T12:20:23.669-06:00Haha, then your reading list is going to go crazy,...Haha, then your reading list is going to go crazy, because I am trying to get through a book a day this year. <br /><br />Speaking of books, I totally made a list for you (when you asked months and months ago), but I wanted to write up little annotations, so I haven't gotten it to you, but I totally will do it!<br /><br />P.S. Maybe Americans are clever than we thought...?Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00370486039531015541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992599607086278068.post-86140414886743134462012-02-14T19:59:28.829-06:002012-02-14T19:59:28.829-06:00I know I complain about it a lot but I feel like e...I know I complain about it a lot but I feel like eventually we've got to grow up, right? I mean, there's going to come a day when we all look around and go, "Wow, we focus on some really petty stuff. Let's stop." No? Hmm, ok.<br /><br />I read your review of The Baker's Daughter. It's on my reading list now. My reading list grows exponentially as you continue to read books.<br /><br />P.S. So, we first steal their desserts, make them our own, and then blame them as trying to destroy our way of life? It's brilliant!Steenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254893646539431640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992599607086278068.post-81015089760316544112012-02-14T11:43:08.709-06:002012-02-14T11:43:08.709-06:00Hahaha, I love this post.
First of all, I, not be...Hahaha, I love this post.<br /><br />First of all, I, not being a Christian, mostly avoid any Christian fiction. This is somewhat unfair, since some of it is actually good. I read one fairly recently; it wasn't outstanding, but it was good and didn't beat you over the head with the religion stick. But some of them do! I tried to read a friend's recommendation a couple of years ago and every chapter began with a Bible verse and the characters had to pray or praise the lord on pretty much every page. Come on, guys. If it's that constant, then leave it implied. Sometimes it feels like the author's so focused on proselytizing that they forget to, you know, tell a story.<br /><br />Actually, there are some people who still constantly suspect Germans of being Nazis/completely awful people. I hear about this a lot in middle and high school when I decided to take German. Yes, these were kids, but these ideas probably came from somewhere. Awful.<br /><br />The real problem here: the fact that people want to universalize/stereotype. It's much easier for their one brain cell to say that since one Muslim person or German person did something or believed a certain thing, then clearly all of them do so. Same with them uppity Catholics, if you get my drift. <br /><br />Uniting these topics, I just read a book called The Baker's Daughter. It's set in modern Texas and draws some parallels between immigration and Nazi Germany. It was pretty cool. <br /><br />P.S. I don't really know. I mean, I'm pretty sure we weren't the first culture to eat something like that. German's have some apple desserts in fried crusts...conspiracy?Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00370486039531015541noreply@blogger.com