>>>Hi Terry,
>>>
>>>>I once sold apple doughnuts on the beach in S France. The French is "Beignet au pomme", my German customers called it "Apfel Krapfen" and the Dutch told me it was "Apple flapper", which even they seemd to find amusing. Is that right?
>>>
>>>Appel flappen
>>>
>>>Yes, that is right. I don't see what is amusing about appelflappen. Maybe it had to do with how you or the appelflappen looked like :)
>>>
>>>Walter,
>>
>>Yup but unfortunately wrong...the french word for appelflappen = chausson aux pommes. in Dutch beignet aux pommes = appelbeignets
>
>What? you're telling a dutchman what a word is in his own language? Yes, I know yours is practically identical but surely tainted with the admixture of a 3-language society (French Canadian differs on many points with classic French, just as US English differs from English).

Well, in language games most of the times the Vlaams speaking Belgians beat us! :)
This is odd, because we can hardly understand them when they talk. :)
There are some games on tv with both Belgian and Dutch people, for example 'Robinson Island'. On Dutch tv the talks of the Belgians are translated, because it is a complete mystery to us what they're saying!