Today I made semolina porridge for breakfast and it reminded me one of my first days in Malta, already a few years ago.
I had just moved from Latvia to Malta and it was my first time in Maltese supermarket, buying all the necessary food. I was looking for semolina porridge and couldn't find it, so asked:
- Where do you have manna?
- What???
- Manna. I want to make manna porridge.
The local Maltese were looking at me puzzled and then started to laugh, telling that I can find manna in the church, but not in the supermarket.
- No, no, no. In Latvia we have manna and I want to make manna porridge.
We did not manage to understand each other, so I left home without buying any semolina... Afterwards, telling this to my Mum ("Those Maltese have no idea what is manna porridge!") and Googling, I found out that actually Latvian word "manna" in English is "semolina" :)
I was so sure that it should be the same also in English - simply because it did not sound Latvian at all!
I had just moved from Latvia to Malta and it was my first time in Maltese supermarket, buying all the necessary food. I was looking for semolina porridge and couldn't find it, so asked:
- Where do you have manna?
- What???
- Manna. I want to make manna porridge.
The local Maltese were looking at me puzzled and then started to laugh, telling that I can find manna in the church, but not in the supermarket.
- No, no, no. In Latvia we have manna and I want to make manna porridge.
We did not manage to understand each other, so I left home without buying any semolina... Afterwards, telling this to my Mum ("Those Maltese have no idea what is manna porridge!") and Googling, I found out that actually Latvian word "manna" in English is "semolina" :)
I was so sure that it should be the same also in English - simply because it did not sound Latvian at all!
It's the same word in Russian. I would have never guessed that it should be called "semolina". :)
AtbildētDzēstIn the US you look for Cream of Wheat... No one knows what semolina is. I had a hard time finding it here in France!
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