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> but to borrow a German idiom, don’t eat the headlines as hot as they’re cooked.

I'm German and I have never heard this before, but I like it.

I think it's reffering to "Nichts wird so heiß gegessen wie es gekocht wird", which translates to "Nothing get's eaten as hot as it get's cooked.".

Similarly in Dutch, de soep wordt niet zo heet gegeten als ze wordt opgediend. In this case it's soup that's not eaten as hot as it is served.

Is soup popular in Dutch cuisine? Honestly asking. Etymologies of aphorisms (especially multiple cultural ones) fascinate me.

Not particularly popular, especially nowadays. "Snert", a thick pea soup with pork, is a classic winter dish though.

In Dutch-speaking Belgium, soup used to be a staple of our diet. Every meal started with soup when I was young.

Een Nederlander zegt tegen zijn vrouw: “Johanna, giet een liter water bij de soep, we hebben gasten!”

(I'm German, but I live in the Netherlands. I absolutely love these jokes between you)

'Ober, mijn bord is nat.' 'Dat is uw soep, m'neer.'

'Ober, deze soep smaakt naar afwaswater.' 'Hoe weet u dat, meneer?'

Ahhhh, that. I only ever heard it being used in relation to imagining bad future events that turn out far better than expected.

German is an interesting tongue...

Einstürzende Neubauten - the band, but the word means "a new building thats always in disrepair" (or so I was told)

Nah, it means "collapsing newly constructed buildings", lol.

Einstürzend = collapsing

Neubauten = made of "Neu"=new and "bauten"=buildings

Except overnight oats

It's definitely a Czech idiom - "nic se nejí tak horké, jak se to uvaří". But apparently German has this, too: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/es_wird_nichts_so_hei%C3%9F_g...

That reminds me, I saw something similar on this Ukrainian music video about Bayraktar drones too.

Timestamp 0:25

It appears the Russians are getting their soup warmed even hotter than the cooking temperature.

Dutch has something similar: “ de soep wordt nooit zo heet gegeten, als zij wordt opgediend” (The soup is never eaten as hot as it was served).

Is that like the German Christmas Pickle tradition that no Germans have heard of?

That was excruciating.

Just like the "Oktoberfests" that take place in America. It's a shit-show.

They also tend to be in the wrong month.

Depends, when are they? The real Oktoberfest starts mid September. (Don’t ask.)

Well, they often start in October instead of ending just at the start of it.

"the headlines never get as hot on the plate as they did in the pan."

--English speaker trying to make sense of it