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Panettone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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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teft@piefed.social · 12 pts · 260d (2 replies)

The word panettone derives from panetto, a small loaf of bread. The augmentative suffix -one changes the meaning to 'large bread'.

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.

KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 260d (1 reply)

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

teft@piefed.social · 1 pts · 260d

Man I love languages. I really should learn a slavic one. The extent of my knowledge is swear words like do prdele and kurwa.

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 259d

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 259d (1 reply)

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."

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 259d

It's not a fruitcake. That's from the infamous world of British cuisine.

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 260d (6 replies)

Panettone is overrated. A good pandoro is much better, and you won't change my mind.

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 260d (4 replies)

There's a wide gap between mediocre panettone and good panettone.

AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 260d (3 replies)

I just hate candied fruit and raisins. I don't like them at all.

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 4 pts · 260d

Would you? Could you? In a car? Eat them! Eat them! Here they are!

dantheclamman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d

There are a ton of kinds of panettone though...

SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d

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.

dantheclamman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 260d

Taste is subjective! I believe it's important to let people not like things, so more power to you, and more panettone for me

pishadoot@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 259d (1 reply)

Where does chocottone fit into this situation?

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 259d

Dude, I love that shit! 😋

graphene@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 259d

I love these, they are so light and just a bit fruity.

chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 260d (2 replies)

https://youtu.be/wgQdkstTNg8

ViaGetty@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 259d (1 reply)

Che razza di persona mette un voto negativo al panettone?!