Michael Buschmichael_w_busch@mastodon.online
Nov 7, 2026, 4:28 PMIn English; that might be a meatball or a patty. Or frikadelle if someone was being very specific.
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Dr. Victoria Grinbergvicgrinberg@mastodon.socialNov 7, 2026, 4:39 PM@michael_w_busch meatballs are round and patties don't have the bread inside and are larger - frikadelle for sure, but a quick query with some native speakers around me (I looked it up on wikipedia and then asked around) told me that most don't know the word so my assumption is that it's just a German word used in English!
- Michael Buschmichael_w_busch@mastodon.onlineNov 7, 2026, 4:56 PM
Lifting food words from other languages is a long-running English tradition.