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In Germany they put up mobil speed control and radio stations warn you about that. In German them doing this is called "blitzen" which is the same word as lightning. As a child I thought they were warning very precisely where lightning strikes were happening.
Same thing with Geisterfahrer (people driving on the wrong side of the Autobahn, lit. ghost drivers). I thought that meant that the driver had died and the car just continued driving on its own
Interesting that of the very few words I could have recognized in German that I remember that one. It used to show up in textbooks in the U.S. when studying WW2. Blitzkrieg being the German air bombings.
Now I am wracking my brain to see what other words I might remember in German.
Mostly keep going back to snitzel, beers and lederhosen. Aka the american stereotyping german restaurants (poorly Im sure). But fuck is the beer and snitzel good.... now I want a big pretzel and beer cheese. I wonder if vegans have a decent beer cheese. *wonders off to scour the internet about which animals are most prominent in German cheese, I always want to assume cows, but the Italian use of Buffalos for Motzerella always has me guessing now.
The term I was looking for was Obatzda from what I found. Stems from Bavaria and is made from cows, sheeps, and goats milk.
If someone knows a traditional recipe or which is most standard, please let me know : )