Chocolate tea cakes have a very strange name in Germany…
October 15, 2024
Are you a Super Dickmann or a Mini Dickmann?
by Smyler12
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Do I go for the Super or the Mini?
Super dickmanns – seemingly only sold in the dark variant.
Mini dickmanns – Mainly white variant.
Super Dickmann’s _schlongs_
Mini Dickmanns’s _chodes_
German here:
One could translate the name to Fatman’s.
Eating those will make you fat.
Wait until you find out about all the different nicknames these have in various countries
Yes, far more strange than Spotted Dick. Oh, those Germans!
A former housemate of my wife was German and unapologetically gay, I went to visit her while we were still long distance (UK > Switzerland) and saw these on the dining table.
“They’re *housemates* don’t touch!”. “Isn’t it a bit on the nose that he’s gay and is eating a sweet called dick man?”
It wasn’t taken as lightly as I’d have hoped.
Fun fact: these kind of cakes used to be called “Negerkuss” or “Mohrenkopf”. Meaning “negro’s kiss” or “moor’s head”.
For obvious reasons this naming convention went out of fashion a while ago.
Sometimes they used to be called Negerkusse complete with (certainly by modern standards) completely unacceptable “comedy” caricatures of black people on the packaging.
If anything is strange, it’s “chocolate tea cake”.
Super Dickmann on Brötchen for me.
Yeah but how many could you gobble in one go?
r/theyknew
The company’s owner was called Johannes Dickmann (my sympathies) and Storck kept the name when they bought it. The worst kind regarding the name were “Dickmann’s Dicke Nüsse” (fat nuts).
13 comments
Do I go for the Super or the Mini?
Super dickmanns – seemingly only sold in the dark variant.
Mini dickmanns – Mainly white variant.
Super Dickmann’s _schlongs_
Mini Dickmanns’s _chodes_
German here:
One could translate the name to Fatman’s.
Eating those will make you fat.
Wait until you find out about all the different nicknames these have in various countries
Yes, far more strange than Spotted Dick. Oh, those Germans!
A former housemate of my wife was German and unapologetically gay, I went to visit her while we were still long distance (UK > Switzerland) and saw these on the dining table.
“They’re *housemates* don’t touch!”. “Isn’t it a bit on the nose that he’s gay and is eating a sweet called dick man?”
It wasn’t taken as lightly as I’d have hoped.
Fun fact: these kind of cakes used to be called “Negerkuss” or “Mohrenkopf”. Meaning “negro’s kiss” or “moor’s head”.
For obvious reasons this naming convention went out of fashion a while ago.
Sometimes they used to be called Negerkusse complete with (certainly by modern standards) completely unacceptable “comedy” caricatures of black people on the packaging.
If anything is strange, it’s “chocolate tea cake”.
Super Dickmann on Brötchen for me.
Yeah but how many could you gobble in one go?
r/theyknew
The company’s owner was called Johannes Dickmann (my sympathies) and Storck kept the name when they bought it. The worst kind regarding the name were “Dickmann’s Dicke Nüsse” (fat nuts).