Haha they definitely meant compote but here's an interesting fact. Compote comes from French compote which I thought had an accent on the o but apparently doesn't. When French has an accent over a vowel it typically indicates that an s has been dropped from old French, which would have made sense because the og French word was actually composte.

Pogbom@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y (3 replies)

As a French speaker I had never heard of this, but I looked it up and it's indeed the case specifically for circumflex accents (ê, ô, â, î) and not the others.

A neat resource (in French naturally) that I found on this:

https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/23698/lorthographe/accents-trema-et-cedille/accent-circonflexe/alternance-entre-laccent-circonflexe-et-le-s-dans-les-mots-de-meme-famille

kite@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

If lemmy has an active TIL community, this would be a fantastic thing to post to it.

lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y

I'm a native English speaker so I'm sure it's one of those interesting things they taught in school that a native speaker would have no need to learn. But it explains why many English words have an s when the modern French word doesn't since so many words were borrowed into English from Old French.

ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

At the start of the word it's an acute accent. Like in école or état.

lukewarm_tauntaun@feddit.de · 12 pts · 3y

Zwetschgenröster oder Apfelmus, du Züpfeklatscha!

Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I prefer Kaiserschmarrn with applesauce

danielbln@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Applesauce is a gift of the gods for pancakes, Kaiserschmarrn, Crepes, lots of things, really. The yanks love drowning their stuff in tree sap, but applesauce is superior, that's just a fact.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

"Broken apart fluffy pancake" certainly describes Kaiser Wilhelm II in the post-WWI era. Excellent naming, Austria.

mazeman0@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y

Looks like a side of curry there 😅 but real talk, Kaiserschmarrn is delicious!

Anamana@feddit.de · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

It's not the same dough as pancake dough though

Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 3y (1 reply)

it definitely is not, but that's the best way to describe it to someone that has never heard of it

Anamana@feddit.de · 4 pts · 3y

True

3v1n0@feddit.it · 2 pts · 3y

Love it!