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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Norway has some of the allegedly most unhinged word constructions via “cake”. It had the modern meaning of a baked sweet, but also any sorta roundish cooked thing that is not sweet, and the old meaning of “any hard lumped mass”.

    So we have, in order of descending sanity:

    • Bløtkake - soft cake, sponge cake
    • Småkake - small cake, cookie
    • Kjøttkake - meat cake, ground meat patties
    • Fiskekake - fish cake, ground fish meat patties
    • Oljekake - oil cake, lump of mass left after pressing oil out of linseeds
    • Blodkake - blood cake, lump of dried blood
    • Morkake - mother cake, placenta
    • Kukake - cow cake, cow poop