Grüezi or Guten Tag?
This screen shot memorializes a crucial dinner prep moment this week in Switzerland. We were aiming high — cheese fondue! — but we needed help with a translation on a food package.
H kindly typed in the French — and voila! — “Pour the contents ….”
Dinner was saved.
JUBILAUMSSCHAU is another new word for us. It means something like ANNIVERSARY SHOW … and, in the case of our Swiss community here in the Alps, it’s the annual COW CUP.
Cow farmers bring their best cows in to town. Each cow is paraded in front of a pair of white-jacketed judges. And championship cows are awarded giant Swiss bells — like the ones pictured above.
Here’s a minute’s-worth of sound from the scene — as moos mixed with traditional Alps tunes.
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