Re: Homonymy (hot stuff dept.)

Hello!

On 6/23/05, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
>
> > Julia "Schnecki" Simon skrev:
[snip snip]

> > > I'm not sure, though, what word I should use for the other kind of
> > > "hot" --
> >
> > _stark_ -- which is incidentally used also of high alcohol
> > content, so that "en stark dryck" is ambiguous.  One can
> > always say _kryddstark_ to be sure.
>
> I find it hard to think of a situation in which I'd say that a drink is
> _kryddstark_.
Jägermeister? That one has lots of _kryddörter_ (herbs and spices), at
least... ;-)

Seriously, though, there actually is a drink that might be called
both _stark_ and _kryddstark_. (There are probably more, but only one
I've tasted so far.) In Hungary, they make a kind of brandy whose main
ingredient seems to be some sort of pepper (capsicum). It's quite
good, but... wow... *interesting*, to say the least.

Regards,
Julia

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