11:53 Oct 24, 2008 

best to leave the 'Fettbemmchen' untranslated as a quaint German name, with a description - possibly slightly more detailed than in German. It probably wouldn't be difficult to convince your customer to include a little more info in English. It's not so terrible then to use 'lard' in a description than in a title or name.

To me personally, 'dripping' doesn't sound any more appetizing than 'lard', actually. May have something to do with with the image of the blackened, crusty baking tin my British grandmother used to collect the dripping from each & every roast, with the lower layers from previous roasts having gone all rancid and horrible... she used it for pan-frying a lot. URGH!

11:26 Oct 24, 2008 

It would be nice if the entre on the menu could remain untranslated with an added quaint explanation of the Saxony slice (by the way open-face sandwich is an oxymoron) in English as Sybille has already begun in German. Otherwise no one in their right mind would order this "rye bread smeared with animal fat cholestrol-bomb". (Even though I grew up with this stuff on the table in my house.)

08:03 Oct 24, 2008 

Im sächsischen Dialekt sagt man für eine Scheibe Brot "Bemme" (Verkleinerungsform "Bemmchen).
Fettbemmchen klingt vielleicht nicht gut, schmeckt aber gut.

06:56 Oct 24, 2008 

open face pork-crackling (or 'bacon drippings') sandwich - neither of which sounds very appetizing in English

06:55 Oct 24, 2008 

Nein, auf keinen Fall.

06:53 Oct 24, 2008 

is this meant to have a negative connotation?