Would worstenbroodjes suit their tastes, Mr. Punchy@BC? These are great to grab as a snack, a hot food lunch item or just because! Don't mind the Dutch word worst as we pronounce the 'o' in 'worst' in a different way (actually the same as in 'hot' and 'dog') and worst means 'sausage' (not in the case of a worstenbroodje - we use minced meat instead). If you see the word 'worstkaasscenario', you'll notice that it looks similar to worst case scenario and that's exactly what it means! Dutch people like to play with language. Various types of worst and kaas (cheese) are (not the only) typical items on your Dutch breakfast-table.
We've plenty of worstenbroodjes available. If you like, mevrouw Kleine Zeemeermin will put 4 worstenbroodjes, for your dogs to try them out, in the oven.

How are we doing in the races?
Christmas Race 2017

11  	 SeriousCrunchers 	9,235,701
12  	 top40.nl  		8,977,585
13  	 Kraland 		8,272,366

Kraland - Challenge IV

1  	 CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES 	5,964
2  	 top40.nl  			3,085
3  	 SeriousCrunchers 		2,721

Just a very quick reaction from your overworked room maid, cook, receptionist, dog walker, you name it.
I shall address your two post 'shortly' as they say.
Shortly!
A quick scan seemed to reveal that you want me to do something like baking.
I may be wrong. A close scrutinizing will tell, but let me state just in case - in all cases:
I don't bake, captain.
I cannot bake. I make bricks
And Upstairs Yvonne who does cannot do it long distance from Andalusia.
I shall and will be back
- with my overtime statement
But you have had your share van tegenslag, so of course ....
But NO baking

I am pleasantly surprised, mevrouw Kleine Zeemeermin, you used the word tegenslag correctly in a sentence

Thank you, captain. I have a very good and committed teacher

a Dutch word in an English sentence, so now you must know 'de betekenis van tegenslag' (the meaning of adversity)

Yes, I do. It only took me some 118 runs of Lesson 1 to have that absorbed. I'm not done yet, but getting there. Once you mentioned something about music 'being the joy of recognition' or something to this effect. You're right. I actually enjoyed this melody each time, and it runs now ... I still enjoy it.

And you probably can tell the difference between hagelslag and tegenslag, too.

Absolutely! A couple of days ago, I had ice cream with a sprinkling of hageslag on our Grand Hotel menu, Adri.
You have been too busy and overworked yourself to notice
Not to mention your battle with that container, tsk, tsk, tsk and so pn and so forth
I'm so sorry to hear that our frontdeskcomputer died. Irreversably. What now? The new one with a wait of several weeks? But encouraging that we have a fairy/faery/færie

So you don't do baking. No problem, can you handle a microwave oven? We have two of them to speed up the process of heating worstenbroodjes, so that they can be served quickly.

I think so. I said think so, mind you. I tried with aluminum foil once, just to see why they say you shouldn't
Say, doesn't microwaves deliver soggy worstenbroodjes?
How about toasting them a little? The way Rhode Island does

Captain adriverhoef, you are very productive today. I take it as a sign that you're feeling better. I'll look closer at your most recent installment when I have taken care of Grand Hotel's Thursday Dinner.
This really belongs in the ’FC Language United’ thread, but we have this on hold for the time being, right?
Adriano Celanto's Prisencolinensinainciusol with the impossible lyrics ... I almost pretended it was your behaviour over the weekend, captain adriverhoef. A wild man.
Your Italian namesake.
Important to notice: Namesake. It’s a unisex word. Good for unisex names. How do you say namesake in Dutch?
In Denmark we – as you know – don’t try to confuse anybody. We have a strict separation of the sexes namewise. This is also mirrored in the words: ’navnesøster’ and ’navnebror’ ~ ’namesister’ and ’namebrother’.

Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Winter Solstice
Tonight is the longest night in the Northern hemisphere. Denmark is a small country. Still there is an amazing difference of the length of this night depending on where you live.
16 h 45’ at Gedser the southermost point.
16 h 59’ at Denmark’s Meteorlogical Institute in Copenhagen – you could say 14 minutes to the north of the south
17 h 28’ at Skagen the most northern point – almost half an hour to the north you could say from Copenhagen, and no less than 43’ from north to south.
A distance of just 259 km/161 miles.
ultimaThule’s Helsinki is far more to the north. The Finnish population is said to have a high degree of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder – winter depression).

Flattering
Yesterday I saw my MD. She prescribed a bandage which she hopes will clear the fluid from my leg so I don’t need to invest too much of my savings in those ’tailormade compression stockings’. My left leg is wrapped in a highly organic looking foam rubber dressing with a similarly organic looking elastic dressing wrapped over it. We’ll see how it behaves. Check up and change or whatever is needed on December 27th.
No stilettos for the foreseeable future ….
And it itches no end, and it’s impossible to get any satisfaction
Christmas 2017 Race
You gave the figures, captain adriverhoef. A few comments:
We are doing nicely at #12. The distance to Kraland is bigger, the distance to SeriousCrunchers smaller.
Kraland IV Challenge
Still #2 neatly in front of SeriousCrunchers at #3. Kraland, you have to pedal faster
Chores
Dustbunnies wiped out
Rushing out to get what I need for cooking.
See you when dinner is ready

Christmas Eve (24 December) is indeed the night before the two days of Christmas (25 and 26 December). Wikipedia says "In West-Europa wordt 25 december als eerste kerstdag en 26 december als tweede kerstdag beschouwd" (which Google for some reason translates as In Western Europe, December 25 is considered Christmas Day and December 26 as Boxing Day). What is Boxing Day? (eerste kerstdag = first Christmas Day, tweede kerstdag = second Christmas Day)

Wikipedia says "Vandaag de dag is het vooral in Nederland gebruikelijk om tijdens Kerst te gourmetten met familie." which roughly translates as Today, it is customary in the Netherlands to cook with family at Christmas according to Google Translate. But 'gourmetten' is not the same as 'to cook'. Gourmetten is a "vorm van re­cre­a­tief ta­fe­len waar­bij ie­der aan ta­fel in pannetjes zijn ei­gen ge­rech­ten klaar­maakt" (a form of recreational dining where everyone at the table prepares their own dishes in little pans). An example for six persons. Some possible ingredients, sitting at the table and another example. Ingredients: Meat / Fish / Vegetarian, Bread- and/or Potatoproducts, Vegetables (to be baked / cold), Various foods. Some gourmet-recipes.

Picture tiny little pans and spatulas for each diner to help you prepare your own miniature steaks, slavink (ground meat), schnitzels, and tiny hamburgers on a searing hot griddle. You'll also find garlic sauce, whiskey sauce, garlic butter, and—if you're lucky—pancake batter, resting in the wings on the table, along with some chopped peppers, onions, and a bowl of eggs.

Gourmetten is one of the most popular ways to spend Christmas dinner. It is all about convenience—nobody will get bored with all those teensy pans and miniature foods, and our cook can sit back and relax at the table. Every person must cook their own meal.
It's easy and it's fun, you have to prepare a number of things, but once you sit down, you don't have to get up anymore and there's another big advantage: if something fails, you can't blame anyone but yourself.
Every supermarket is selling ready-to-eat (cheap) meat packages nowadays.
At our Grand Hotel we will of course buy our meat at a real butcher and use real butter.

Christmas Race 2017

11  	 SeriousCrunchers 	9,829,428
12  	 top40.nl  		9,824,792
13  	 Kraland 		8,734,782

Kraland - Challenge IV

1  	 CRUNCHERS SANS FRONTIERES 	9,004
2  	 top40.nl  			5,209
3  	 SeriousCrunchers 		4,041