White or Wheat?

[Chemical Ollie]

This thread calles for some serious spamming.

I prefer white bread. And rye. And wheat. All with plenty of cheese or salami.

(Now I only have 187 spams left to write before I get my custom avatar.)

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Thank you Google:

It was during the 1870 German French War when the French were defeated by a German-Russian military alliance. Paris had fallen to the enemy, and the enemy did not like to eat French bread. So some Germans found a bakery and instructed the owner how to bake the heavy dark German-type bread. When they went to collect their newly baked bread, the French baker said scornfully: "Here! I baked your bread. But tell me? how can you eat that stuff? It's only good for my horse Nicole to eat." That phrase 'good for Nicole' in French is: 'bon pour Nicole' and the Teutonic pronunciation of the word gave us the word 'pumpernickel.'

http://www.ladyflame-thepenismightierthanthesword.com/IntriguingWordOrigins.html

The 'bour pon Nicole' origin is also backed by another webpage.

And it's totally a myth.

Pumpernickel has been around as a word well before the Franco-Prussian war. The above myth has also been attributed to Napoleon, who while crossing through Europe stopped in a German town. Then his cook brought him the local bread, he sneered at it and fed it to his horse, Nicole, saying "pain pour Nicole" (bread for Nicole). And that's not true, either.

The real origin is that it is a combination of two German words, "pumpern" and "nickel." "Pumpern" is a colloquialism for "to fart," while "nickel" is a sort of malicious spirit, goblin, devil, etc. Since the bread was so coarse, it often led to being possessed by a "fart goblin." Or a pumpernickel.

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mpumpernickel.html

And that's the straight dope!

[Zkribbler]

The whiter the bread,
The sooner you're dead.

Right now I'm on a baked potato bread kick but only one store I know carries it.

Authentic sourdough is better but nearly impossible to find.

Usually I settle for wheat.

[Trivia for how pumpernickel got it's name: "Pumper" was German slang for f@rt. "Nickel" is a reference to Old Nick, i.e. Satan. The idea being that the bread was so coarse, it would make Satan f@rt. ]

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
[Trivia for how pumpernickel got it's name: "Pumper" was German slang for f@rt. "Nickel" is a reference to Old Nick, i.e. Satan. The idea being that the bread was so coarse, it would make Satan f@rt. ]

Dude, too slow.

[SlowwHand]

I almost picked banana bread, becuase it's sooo good; but the last time I tried it with turkey and swiss, not so good.

[Boris Godunov]

Sloww, can I call you "fart goblin" from now on?