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Well I'll tell my Dutch family that they're saying it wrong next time.

I didn't want to start an argument about it, just recommend the stollen at Aldi as more authentic and good tasting than other versions sold in this country.[/quote]

Stollen is a German word, so please do tell your Dutch family that Stollen is a TRADITIONAL German bread. Stollen is about as Dutch as Indian Paratha bread.[/quote]

Well considering The Netherlands borders Germany, no I don't agree that stollen is the same to the Dutch as paratha. Anyways, I never said it was a Dutch bread. I said that they (the Dutch) call it stollen which they do so it's also a word used in Dutch. I'm not going to correctly their Dutch language since they are the native speakers.

As I stated they enjoy stollen in Holland and consider the Aldi stollen with the almond filling a decent replacement for the traditional stollen they eat in Holland which is a compliment to Aldi. [/quote]

They are actually called Dresdner Christollen or Weihnachtstollen during Advent, and were created in 1474 (in Dresden, which is in the east of Germany).  And yes, the Aldi ones are pretty good, they're usually made in Germany.

--German.[/quote]

NP here. Get off your German high horse. Why the hell would the above poster need to inform her Dutch family that stollen is a German bread and that they should properly refer to it as Dresdner Christollen or Weihnachtstollen? That is the height of pedantry. This is not actually the year 1474, and these days foods are so internationalized I don't see how it makes a damn bit of difference whether Dutch families enjoy stollen at Christmas, or whether German families enjoy speculaas cookies at Christmas, without necessarily knowing the full etymology or cultural history behind each recipe.[/quote]

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