AMT406: Slicing Socks, Polyglot Popes and Stealing Butter

Answer Me This!

Helen & Olly

Education, Society & Culture, Relationships, Comedy

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Why do Danes slice up the bride’s veil and the groom’s socks at a wedding? Is it OK to take pats of butter from a cafe? How/when do Popes learn Italian? And what happens if you drop your phone into the toilet at a festival? (Spoiler: nothing good.) Questioneers want to know all these things and more in AMT406. For more information about this episode, visit answermethispodcast.com/episode406 Got question for us to answer? Send them in writing or as a voice note to [email protected]. Next episode will be in your podfeed 26 June 2025. Before that, AMT patrons will be getting a new feature: Petty Problems, a live YouTube version of the show where we only deal with questions that are trivial, unserious, minor. And because it’s live, you can interact with us in real time! The first edition will be 10pm UK time on Sunday 15th June. Patrons also get bonus cuts from the show, an ad-free version of the episode, and the glow of satisfaction of bringing this podcast back to life; so for all that, go to patreon.com/answermethis. This episode is sponsored by Squarespace, the all in one platform for creating and running your online empire. Go to squarespace.com/answer, have a play around during the two-week free trial, and when you're ready to launch, get a 10% discount on your first purchase of a website or domain with the code ANSWER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is Ali Merck and Beals dancing baby, now a dancing grown up?
0:05.0	I ate the plums in your icebox, most my poem, oh not.
0:11.1	Has to be this, awesome it is, heaven and only us to be this.
0:17.3	Last time, we learned a surprising amount of stuff, some perhaps true, some really smelling of the bullshit, about pretzels.
0:26.1	Previously, unanswered me this.
0:29.3	Bullshit in the shape of a pretzel.
0:31.7	Matt, from Commandman, but in Southern Germany for the year, has been in touch to say regarding the size of pretzels, the city of Heidelberg in Southern Germany for the year has been in touch to say regarding the size of pretzels.
0:39.2	The city of Heidelberg in southern Germany has a pretzel shape carved into the wall of the
0:44.4	main church on the market square. This was the size of a pretzel which could change each year
0:50.5	depending on the harvest. I know he means the wheat harvest, but I like the idea of a pretzel harvest.
0:57.3	Salty pretzels fully formed from the field.
1:00.2	The pretzel trees are thin this year, me lad.
1:04.1	Anyone who bought a pretzel from a baker in the city could take it to this stone
1:08.8	and see if they'd been short-changed.
1:11.7	Where are the Arthurian-style myths about the pretzel stone?
1:14.2	I love that.
1:15.1	The city tour guide showing us around said that any baker who was selling pretzels made too
1:19.2	small would be dunked in the river after being shown the correct size on this stone.
1:23.5	I'm not sure if this is true or just a story for the tourists.
1:25.9	And I am half remembering this from before some mulled wine from the very charming Christmas market.
1:30.6	I hear you.
1:31.7	It is a lovely story.
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