Stuff Mennonites Like #2

Food with uanppetizing names
Oddly, most of them are dessert.

These are the ones that come up often. Before you read further, you should just know: Mennonite's have qutie a way with food. Delicous, filling, carb-o-licious, and using limited ingredients. Genius.

Name
1. Plumemoss (PLOOM-a-moose)
2. Platz (pronounced more like Plotz)
3. Ofenschlupfer (just like that)
4. Blette Torte (BLE-ta-torte)
5. Fleischballe (ei=long "i" sound)

First thing you thought
1. Where would a mennonite get a moose? (wait... is this one of those jokes?)
2. I don't want to eat that.
3. Sounds like the typical backwards German way of saying something like "it fell off the"
4. That belongs in the bathroom!
5. Flesh. Balls.

What it really is
1. Cold Fruit Soup. Mostly made with dried fruits such as plums, cherries, blueberries. It's very dark and sweet, a little bit thick and sticky.
2. Soft thin crust, topped with mounds of fruit of your choice (usually rhubarb, blueberry, or apple) and sprinkled with a sugar/butter topping. Mmmmmm.
3. Bread pudding. (But really the "schlup" sounds like the sound it would make if it "fer Ofen" the table)
4. Simply a torte. With many thin layers, separated by homemade vanilla or chocolate pudding.
5. Meat. Balls. I don't know why the Germans decided to use the word Flesh to describe all meat. It almost turned me to vegetarianism.

I think maybe we do this on purpose. We know their recipes are top-notch, but (being stingy/cheap by nature) we don't want anyone else to know. So we veil our innovations with disgusting names. Yup. We're the smart ones.