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Trippin' Through Time

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

Someone send a few to Trump? That old fart has no self control.

[–] Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did the buns kill him? Or did he just die of syphilis or something while on a bun binge?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Too much cinnamon i guess. Is too much for the liver.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 11 hours ago

Death goals.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 5 points 20 hours ago

Do not eat 14 cinnamon buns. You will surely regret eating 14 cinnamon buns.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 88 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

That is a mistranslation. It wasn't cinnamon buns, it was hetvägg, a type of cardamom bun swimming in sweetened hot milk/cream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Frederick_of_Sweden#Death

14 cinnamon buns would be rookie numbers

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 12 points 1 day ago

Yes, and to add: hetvägg is the precursor to the modern semla, which is probably pretty much a national dish here now.

The traditional hetvägg is equally if not more delicious though, although quite a bit more involved to make.

[–] RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They are really good. Just make sure the cardamom is mixed in well.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

and that you're not a king of sweden

I make sure of that every morning, just to be on the safe side.

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

what if you are a queen of sweden?

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do you suppose he was trying to be the King of Sweets, too?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

A time-traveler, too? At that mass? Oofda.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't you know? All kings are time travelers. ESPECIALLY the Swedish ones.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ohhh, that's what No Kings is really about? That makes so much sense now.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, lots of anti time travel sentiment in the US population.

They have a hard enough time denying the details of their own history WITHOUT people just going to see for themselves!

(For the joke to work, please pretend that the parties are reversed)

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I should've known that you, of all characters, would be familiar with atypical time manipulation. I mean, c'mon. You've an ironic anachronism (separated by centuries, no less) as your whole username. 😋

So, O' Timeline Berzerker in a Hand-Me-Down Hemp Toga of Mindfulness +2... what happens next? 🫣

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You've an ironic anachronism

I've been called much worse 😁

So, O' Timeline Berzerker in a Hand-Me-Down Hemp Toga of Mindfulness +2... what happens next? 🫣

For my encore, I'll juggle the simultaneous beliefs in pacifism, that collective punishment is wrong, and that the guillotine for all billionaires is a moral imperative😉

Joking aside, though, my username is actually quite apt: I'm a big bearded guy from Denmark and I'm also a far left anti-authoritarian pacifist (with certain exceptions to the rule such as the above one) 🤷🏻

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

We're not too dissimilar, geophysically aside, it would seem. No note, other than Mr own personal preference to spell "moral imperative" in that context as "civic duty", instead. Also, for fertilizer; it's a wiser solution than simply eating them as the old saying goes, and the crops will reward us all!

[–] Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

They're amazing. I can definitely believe someone dying after eating 14 of them in one sitting though. I can barely get through one before I just can't eat anymore.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

hetvägg

Heterosexual/hot wall? 🤔

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A much sought after delicacy

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Second only to the bi version. 🤌🏼

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

hot wall?

Given some cinnamon buns I've had in in my life, they could have just as well been heated drywall. ;)

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It said "after" not "because" and not "died of a surfeit of cinnamon/cardamom buns"

Maybe he was actually suffering from a cardamom deficiency and couldn't eat ENOUGH buns in time to save his life

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago

He was tragically on his 15th bun, which would have saved his life, when he expired.

[–] Slashme@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

We need a few more experiments before we can determine an LD50

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Weirdly similar experience - one time in the college cafeteria, where the policy was take all you want but eat all you take, I ate 12 desserts for lunch. The portions were small. I stopped at 12 although I was sure I could eat one more, because I wasn't sure I could eat two more and stopping at 13 seemed unlucky. Apparently King Adolf lacked my superior power of risk assessment.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago
[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

So who is going to find out how much of the 14th can be eaten?

[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

And I thought two was too many

[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

So that's where we get the bakers dozen from..

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It might not be a hard limit, 13 might be more like the LD50 of cinnamon buns, more data is needed.

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 day ago

I volunteer!

[–] wunderbred@fedinsfw.app 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Baker’s dozen for a reason

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That makes 14 a Frederick's Dozen, then.

[–] slingstone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A baker's dozen of Cinnabon probably won't kill you immediately. The renal failure, on the other hand...

[–] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

To Cinnabon I go…