No, my Dutch has not improved that significantly nor do I invent strange sounding words. It's just that today I had I the chance to experiment a unique Dutch that's called as above.
More exactly, it's what you see in the picture below. Toasted bread (or rusk), called "beschuit", with butter and sugar coated anais, looking like small mice, therefore the "muisjes". It's usually served to visitors that come to see a new born, or brought by young moms to work to celebrate their new born, which is how I got to taste it.
Not very hard to understand the meaning of colors - pink for girls and blue for boys, and apparently there was one exception from the rule, when the muisjes were orange to celebrate Princess Catherine-Amelia's birth.
I was trying to figure out where this tradition comes from, and of course you can go with the the basic explanation that rusk is what you give to a small kid whose teeth are just getting out and that anais is a symbol of fertility, but I believe its much easier: just think of Dutch people's love for sandwiches and sprinkles and there you have it!
More exactly, it's what you see in the picture below. Toasted bread (or rusk), called "beschuit", with butter and sugar coated anais, looking like small mice, therefore the "muisjes". It's usually served to visitors that come to see a new born, or brought by young moms to work to celebrate their new born, which is how I got to taste it.
Not very hard to understand the meaning of colors - pink for girls and blue for boys, and apparently there was one exception from the rule, when the muisjes were orange to celebrate Princess Catherine-Amelia's birth.
I was trying to figure out where this tradition comes from, and of course you can go with the the basic explanation that rusk is what you give to a small kid whose teeth are just getting out and that anais is a symbol of fertility, but I believe its much easier: just think of Dutch people's love for sandwiches and sprinkles and there you have it!
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