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Re: The turkey from Turkey
« Reply #30 on: October 07, 2019, 12:16:54 pm »
Oh. The real explanation of the "Czech movie" phrase is more simple than I expected. There was a movie called "Nobody knows anything":
czeski film – Wikislovník
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So they started to say: "Nikt nic nie wie - czeski film", and the whole phrase has been shortened later.

The title has multiple negations so the title doesn't look so nice in English as in Slavic and Romance languages  ;)
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Re: The turkey from Turkey
« Reply #31 on: October 07, 2019, 02:48:46 pm »
Quote from: Chizuko on September 28, 2019, 03:07:48 am

Some people call it "a baguette". I doubt they know the meaning. I don't know either. Is it a French word?


It is a French word. It means small stick.  It is a typical white crispy French bread. Some might be quite long. Maybe you saw them in a movie.

About Spaghetti (Napoletana Japanese style) with Ketchup... are you sure it isn't a simple tomato sauce (an onion, some tomatos, herbs,  salt, cooked a very long time: the longer the better)? Ketchup has tomatos, lots of sugar and vinegar in it!
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