From Asia with Love: Guangdong Meets Sydney
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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The Germans Have a Better Economy Than the Checks
In certain varieties of arabic, you'll hear bukrafil mishmish, or jus fa mishmish. And that phrase translates is something like, tomorrow apricots. In german, instead of saying, pack your five plums, you say, pack your seven plums and get out of here. Check speakers describe someone as nemasni neslani, which means not fatty, not salty, neither one thing nor the other.
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