Re:The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (2014)
by rob74 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @02:14AM
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Some linguistic context: gombóc means "dumpling" in Hungarian, and gömböc itself is a less commonly used name for head cheese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_cheese), which is traditionally filled into the pig's stomach and therefore also has a round-ish shape.
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Re:The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (2014)
by kaba0 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @04:06AM
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There is also a Hungarian folk tale titled “little gömböc” where a poor family gets hungry and the father sends their daughter up to the attic to bring down the head cheese, but instead the latter eats the girl. After she disappears the father sends the other 2 girls, then his wife, then himself all of them disappearing into the ever-expending stomach of the not-so-little Gömböc, which at this point get so heavy that it falls onto the ground and rolls out the house, eating everyone in its way, including the whole village.
Fortunately the boy whose job is to keep/check on pigs (don’t know the English word) has a knife in his pocket, cuts the Gömböc out from the inside and the whole village escapes in LIFO order. “And they lived happily ever after or something like that”
Re:The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (2014)
by jrochkind1 on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:30AM
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> whose job is to keep/check on pigs (don’t know the English word)
"swineherd" but it's an uncommon/archaic word in at least American English, and most people would just say what you said.
Re:The GömböC: An object that shouldn't exist (2014)
by bbotond on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @05:59AM
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YouTube link for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSnAbMhMeHs
I had nightmares after watching this as a kid.