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Long, Round and Patterned

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A broken-off, patterned column, left by the Romans.
A weathered, patterened column from the Heidelberg Castle.
A patterned chimney of an abandoned mill.
Another patterned industrial chimney.
A patterned round staircase from the outside.
A chimney on a residential building, the pattern created by slate.

Patterned columns and chimneys (basically hollow columns) – from oldest to newest. Solid stone columns were patterned by Romans and later. Around the turn of the 19th century they used bricks and often patterned structures either plastically or by using different coloured bricks. Slate are thin plates and pattern are achieved by overlapping the pieces.

The Ragtime Daily Prompt: Patterns

Ergo Bibamus!

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Each year on Ascension Day about 2500 members of student fraternities are descending on our hometown. They wear their traditional uniforms and are practicing other traditions (like finding out how much beer they can hold). The new members are tenderfooting it – they still have to learn a lot (like how to walk after having taking in the maximum amount of beer).

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Tenderfoot

One Pig’s Stomach is Another One’s Ambrosia

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Pfälzer Saumagen (pig’s stomach from the Palatinate) may sound horrid but it’s actually a very tasty dish, similar to a fat sausage consisting of pork, potatoes and spices and stuffed in a pig’s stomach rather than a thin piece of intestine.

Former German chancellor Helmut Kohl who was a native of the Palatinate loved this dish and served it to his guests of state. Rumour has it that the better they liked it, the better he got on with them. I don’t know if that’s true but it was always reported that while Mikhail Gorbachev liked it quite well, Margaret Thatcher detested it and look at the politics of these three! I was absolutely sure that a photo existed of Thatcher looking suspiciously on her plate (and everybody I spoke to was also sure) but this seems to be trope rather than a reality.

Anyway, the inhabitants of the area are quite adamant that Adam and Eve came to live in the Palatinate after they were kicked out of Eden since this is the part of Earth that came closest to paradise. No wonder they consider their most typical food and drink – wine and saumagen – to be fit for the gods.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Ambrosial