You’re joking, but one time I found an old 70s catalogue behind a dresser. The pages for hosiery were full of topless models wearing only pantyhose. It was a German catalogue, maybe that explains it.

Teen-me ordered so many clothes online that I had my mother’s card details memorized. (She was okay with it as long as I had the cash to pay her back.) As long as the card wasn’t charged I could have verified my age all across the internet.

I think I’m spending too much time here because I understood that last part even though I’m European.

The first version of our content software blocked anything mentioning Japan or Japanese and anything about socialism or socialists because it triggered the list of banned words. Because the software was originally in English it also banned some random German words that sounded like English swears, though some were…

I learned that when I was looking for half and half, the German word for that literally translates to coffee milk.

Did he also try to drive on the right side of the street because that’s how he does it at home?

*And maybe some big cups with small band sizes*

I didn’t speak or understand English when I heard it for the first time. Rediscovering old favourites is always a mixed bag for me. ‘Wow, that’s weird.’ ‘I was allowed to listen to that as a child?’

No, most are only performing as a character. Think of it like Sacha Cohen performing as Ali G or Borat.

I’d love a season with some bio queens or kings.

The French are not the only ones.

If their Japanese packaging is anything to go by it was ‘fresh whip’.

Apparently it did/does. If you look up pictures of lynchings you can see children in the watching crowd.

I’m German too. But my recipes from the 50s usually have metric measurements, cooking time varies depending on your type of stove. Maybe I could try to translate or figure out some of the other issues?

I love that show. There is also a similar one that doesn’t go that far back in time and it features a family, ‘back in time for dinner’.

‘Do I have to remove the head before or after baking?’

And the things they passed off as ‘salads’.

I have some old recipes from my great-grandmother (no idea how old they are, parts of the cover are missing) that never mention temperature because they were meant to be baked in a fire. Trying those is always an adventure. I also saw a show recently where they explained that before people had clocks, they would…

I never had that illusion. My grandmother’s and mother’s recipe folders are full of clippings from magazines, parts of packaging or photocopies.

There are some countries where traditionally women don’t change their name and others where all the children get the mother’s name. We’d need to compare data.