Emma and I met this American guy, and when we talked about our differences in food we decided to have a pancake party.
Emma and I both love the Dutch pancakes and were really excited to try the real American ones. Emma is the pro at baking the Dutch ones, so she made a ton of them. While waiting for our friend to arrive we accidentally ate some of them (read a bunch), but we saved some to start the pancake party.
The Dutch pancakes are quiet big and thin, the American ones smaller and thicker. That's already the first difference. An other thing that we do not the same, is the toppings we put on them. While they put on this maple syrup, we do all kinds of stuff. Think about 'stroop', sugar, cheese, bacon, jam, Nutella and even peanut butter (I know, I'm weird).
So when our friend saw our pancakes, he was quite surprised and he didn't think it looked like a thing that he would enjoy to eat. But he tasted them, and well.... he said it was alright. Not that enthusiastic.....
But then you had us, we were out of our world about the American pancakes he made us. They were so good!!
Next to eating we talked a lot about our lives and it's so interesting to hear all of the differences. The way how their school system works, what he normally does in his free time, the eating habits and holidays.
And of course we had to show him 'the Netherlands second' movie that Arjen Lubach made. Emma and I laughed our asses off and he thought it was funny too, so maybe we will be second. We also showed him the translation of some Dutch sayings. And I must admit, when you see these translations, I get why people think the Dutch language is a little bit weird...
We had a really fun night, learned some new English words, tried to learn him some Dutch words (not that easy, because we have so much ggggg) (make the choking sound to pronounce it) and laughed way to much.
Nähdään!
Aniek
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