Pumpernickel Means "bread That Makes You Fart"

[Mango04]

So I was reading this book about grammar and stuff and I randomly came across a fun fact:

Did you know that by derivation pumpernickel means "bread that makes you fart"? In the dialectal German of Westphalia, from which it comes, pumpernickel was "originally an abusive term," says The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, "a compound of pumpern to break wind + Nickel goblin, rascal."

....taken from pg. 10 of What in the Word? by Charles Harrington Elster

[Rachel--24]

LOL...Guess I can add pumpernickel to the list of stuff I avoid.

I got enough symptoms already...dont need to add to them!

[ravenwoodglass]

So I was reading this book about grammar and stuff and I randomly came across a fun fact:

Did you know that by derivation pumpernickel means "bread that makes you fart"? In the dialectal German of Westphalia, from which it comes, pumpernickel was "originally an abusive term," says The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, "a compound of pumpern to break wind + Nickel goblin, rascal."

....taken from pg. 10 of What in the Word? by Charles Harrington Elster

That's not surprising since it gets a double gluten whammy from both rye and wheat.

[Mango04]

Isn't the French word for bread "pain"?...and isn't that pure gluten stuff vegetarians often eat called "seitan"? Maybe if we listened to language there wouldn't be so many undiagnosed celiacs lol.

[jerseyangel]

M-m-m. I think you all may have unlocked the secret of "The Celiac Code"!

[Green12]

This thread cracks me up, you guys

Mango I think you are onto something!

[Mango04]

I'm going to continue to try and unlock the rest of the code. There has got to be more to this