The CO2-powered cannon was capable of way more power than cellophane-wrapped Twinkies can handle. Dial the regulator up past halfway, and they'd just shred on exiting the barrel, splattering anyone near the front of the car with sticky creamy filling and cake crumbs. That was both messy, and disappointing to folks down-range who'd been hoping to catch a snack. (And it immediately summoned a cleanup crew of seagulls, who then wanted more...)
So we learned to keep it modest, and developed a decent sense of pressure vs range. The car geometry allowed only limited variation of the barrel angle, so it wasn't a full-on GORILLA.BAS experience, but it was pretty close.
Culinary ballistics keeps you young. I highly encourage it.
Never ran into that with any I owned unless the paint was questionable or the barrel was a bad fit for the paint, even when I accidentally had a very 'hot' shooting automag due to co2 and a scorcher of a big game day.
Yes, as a German, I was appropriately confused and expected some horrific contraption to get better in hot-dog eating contests or something like that.
But that's nice too.
Does the person who wrote this, speak german?
I assume "schlingen" was meant, but this sounds more like "etwas herunterschlingen" aka eating quickly; that was mentioned via "scarf down, as in food", but to me it sounds more like a description of the object that is held here, like a sling.
But why would that be associated with Vienna, anyway? Nothing like that exists in Vienna really. Also I am not sure about that explanation; to sling makes more sense with hurling something in this context. And the thing looks like a huge slinger. Nobody is opening the mouth to eat everything coming out of that thing right?
Vienna is probably because of Wiener Würstchen, i.e. the hot dog sausages.
but brat? a Bratwurst is a very different kind of sausage. thicker, different meat, different taste, different preparation, different taste. frankfurter / wienerli, are commonly boiled in water, bratwurst go on a grill. (Brat = braten = roast).
i got a western-european POV. maybe USians use these words differently. which means they're wrong. or wronger than europeans are when arguing what stuff should be called. doughnut / berliner / krapfen / [insert name you use], just to trigger some people.
woah, i'm intrigued...does the taste of the beer infuse into the sausage? wonder what the difference is between boiling it in a light lager versus a guinness.
as a by-product you then get sausage-flavored beer, but that doesn't sound nearly as yummy as beer-flavored sausage.
Boiled beer is not appetizing, no matter the flavor
Der Wurstsetzwerfer
Das Fleischgeschützer
Der Wurstbeschleuniger
But from your suggestions, "Wurstbeschleuniger" is very clever, "Wurstsatzwerfer" sounds a bit technical, "Fleischgeschütz" is um... how a german redditor might call his best piece.
Does Wurstsatzwerfer sound to you like a pun on Ersatz + Werfer? I guess that might not work, and also isn't as funny in German. In English, the borrowed word "ersatz" brings a connotation of cheapness or fakeness.
Both -satz (in the sense of set, kit or bank) and -werfer are technical terms often used for modern military equipment, so the word sounded a bit too "real" for me.
But that might just be different tastes.
"Wurstbeschleuniger" would work well, if you're ok with going scientific instead of military.
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> When he was a standup comic in Los Angeles, Omapod host Tony Bock used to do a bit about the name. “Just saying ‘Der Viener Schlinger’ on a comedy stage gets a laugh, whether you’re in Nebraska or not,” he told me. “There’s something quintessentially Nebraskan about mustering the courage to solve the problem we faced before the advent of this invention: the inability to ‘schling’ the wieners.”
[1]: Excepting words borrowed from other languages like "Vase".
I'm a German descended US-ian, speak both languages , and enjoy a good German language joke. This one could have been done better in written form. shrugs
In Austria a Wiener is a different kind of sausage and the German Wiener is called Frankfurter
America.
the broken/fake german did make me suspicious, so i should've seen it coming.
EDIT: imagine a Schwerer Gustav[0] shooting a huge sausage, that's where my brain was going.
EDIT2: according to wiki Gustav can shoot 14 rounds per day, so we could deliver 14 of these sausages[1] daily. why? not sure, combating food scarcity without having to actually go there. Sausage as a Service, directly to your front door.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav [1]https://i0.wp.com/billypenn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/v...
"Der Viener Schlinger".
So ... "Der" is german, we can translate this into "The".
"Schlinger" is a strange word; there is Schlinge in german, which could be translated as loop, snare or, better, a sling. You can see how similar sling is to Schling or vice versa here. To sling ... may also be herumschlingen, a snake may have a similar movement like that; curvy movement aka not linear or so. Makes sense for a sling that throws stuff about, see the slingshot channel or Tod's Workshop. So far this is a bit strange, but not totally strange.
But next comes ... "Viener". This is VERY strange. Where does this word originate? My first impression was it was from Vienna, a city; the german name for the city is "Wien", and if you replace the V here with a W, then it would be "Wiener" (which in english would be viennese, but in local wording). So when I first read the three words, I thought this originated from Vienna ... but that makes no sense. It's from the USA. So Viener must mean something else. But then why it is "Schlinger" rather than "slinger" or sling"? And why the name "Der"? I mean that only makes sense for a german word. Now I am very confused.
I also don't recall any meat cannon as a tradition in central Europe either, so that makes no sense either. Who coined that word here, anyway?
Ok, so there is a company in Chicago named Vienna Beef, started by immigrants from Wien in the 1800s who made sausages using recipes they brought with them. In the 1900s they started making hot dogs as well, but high quality ones. You see, the hot dog in America has a reputation as being a pretty low quality meat product. There are now a number of companies that make quality products, Vienna Beef being one.
In a stroke of genius, Vienna Beef also sells neon signs of their logo to the roadside shops that will sell you a ready to eat hot dog, especially ones that do it “Chicago style”. It’s very Americana, and you generally see it in the middle of America, including Nebraska. So a lot of Americans have a word association with Vienna and a good hot dog. That’s really the only connection :)
It's like they took a word already from German ("wiener" as in hot dog) and then broke it while trying to make it more German, or something.
I had exactly the same concerns as you. My brain was very confused by this name and I was wondering if I got something wrong.
Turns out it's just an American making fake-German. Huh. So this is what it feels like....
It's a better job than a lot of fake German words by Americans. But it's still not quite right to me.
They should have checked the verb that they invented; it does land on a German word that doesn't have the meaning they think, and something can be found that works and still sounds okay in English, like "schleuder".
Furthermore, words like "schleuder" evidently tend to be feminine: so we want "Die Wiener Schleuder":
E.g. see this movie title:
However, I was disappointed that the article conspicuously omitted the story of the original invention.
Anyway, here's the patent ("Process for propelling foodstuffs or the like into a crowd"): https://patents.google.com/patent/US5996568A/en
If you didn't read the rest of the article, that's how you always know they're american
