Panettone
Panettone is an Italian type of sweet bread and fruitcake, originally from Milan, Italy, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year in Western, Southern, and Southeastern Europe
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This is why I love romance languages. Diminutive to make the original word refer to something smaller and then an augmentative to make it big again. So basically this translates to "a large small loaf of bread". Love it.
Slavic languages do this too, augmentative forms are quite common when emphasizing the size and bulkiness of something
Many Slavic languages also have double diminutives, where you apply multiple diminutive suffixes onto a word
For example, in Polish, dzwoń (bell) becomes dzwonek, which can then become dzwoneczek
Man I love languages. I really should learn a slavic one. The extent of my knowledge is swear words like do prdele and kurwa.
I always grew up seeing a stereotype that fruitcake sucks. Then I had one of these and was like "Whoever started that stereotype is dumb. This shit is awesome."
It's not a fruitcake. That's from the infamous world of British cuisine.
I love these, they are so light and just a bit fruity.
Panettone is overrated. A good pandoro is much better, and you won't change my mind.
There's a wide gap between mediocre panettone and good panettone.
I just hate candied fruit and raisins. I don't like them at all.
Would you? Could you? In a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are!
There are a ton of kinds of panettone though...
Raisins can go fuck themselves, but the other fruits are delightful. Lemon, orange, cherry, citron! I'll even sneak a little ginger in there sometimes.
Taste is subjective! I believe it's important to let people not like things, so more power to you, and more panettone for me
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Che razza di persona mette un voto negativo al panettone?!
Where does chocottone fit into this situation?
Dude, I love that shit! 😋
Kind of a bread cake.
My wife and I just call it "tall cake".
The perfect holiday gift that says: "I don't particularly like you, but societal obligations compel me to give you a present."