Talk:Tarta de Santiago

Rommel, Cake Armour and bad etymology
I can find no trace of evidence for cake being used as a sort of ad hoc armour. Any connection between almendra and the phrase 'an armoured vehicle' is obviously silly. Almond, almendra and so on is Latin amygdala, Classical Greek ἀμυγδάλη, armour is Lat. armatura, from arma. As far as I can tell, the Spaniards would say "carro blindado" for an armoured car in any case (and Rommel might have spoken of a Panzerkampfwagen or Panzer for short.

I suspect strongly this is innocent enough April-Fool's-Day type ragging, but ought to go. It's rather wittily written but it probably ought to go.

In vague defence, the German encyclopaedia Brockhaus has a joke entry on the Nasobem, a reference to a poem by Morgenstern and Pschyrembel's Clinical Dictionary has a joke entry on the Petrophaga lorioti, the Stone Louse of a skit by Loriot. So at least in Germany there is precedent for joke entries in good encyclopaedias.

Judgement call? As I am not a user I do not have the authority to edit. Patrick Gray, near Tongue, Sutherland, Scotland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C6:C089:E101:BD03:DD31:402C:45C6 (talk) 19:14, 17 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Good catch, thanks! Unint (talk) 11:57, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

World Baked Goods competition ??
The addition of the following was the sole contribution of an anon user in 2010.I'm deleting as it's impossible to find any online references to such and event and I'm of the view that it's a piece of tame vandalism.--FDent (talk) 15:38, 6 April 2014 (UTC) This dessert was rated #23 overall at the World Baked Goods competition in 1986, held in Warsaw, Poland.