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Mind your language

What does ice cream have to do with ‘late capitalism’?

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

5 February 2022

9:00 AM

‘More to my taste is Trockenbeerenkapitalismus,’ said my husband with an intonation that indicated a joke. The joke was a play on the German Spätkapitalismus, ‘late capitalism’. There is also a German wine category called Spätlese, ‘late harvest’, and another, when the grapes are exposed to noble rot and allowed to wither on the vine, called Trockenbeerenauslese.

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