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27.10.05

voici la réponse - the answer to 'negerzoenen' - the biscuits with a peculiar name. 

Dear Mr/Mrs,

We hereby refer to your email of 23 October and hereby inform you the coming into being of the name Negerzoenen.

In 1920 in the Oudenbosche Bakery in Holland the birth of the first Negerzoen was made anounced: a wafer topped with eggwhite cream and covered with a coco fantasy layer. By consuming fresh Negerzoenen a brown impression was left on the lips. So Negerzoenenem became the brown lips to kiss. This is how the productname Negerzoen came into being.

Over the many years to follow Negerzoenen have become the household name for this productcategory e.g. as Jodenkoeken (Jew Biscuits) have become the standard for a certain type of biscuits (and Kleenex for all tissues) in Holland.

It is our opinion that the word Negerzoenen (only used in Holland) can only be explained in a positive manner. It still remains today a delicious product for all ages and has become a product appreciated by a steady consumer base in marketplace.

We hope we have informed you to your satisfaction.

Best Regards,
Van der Breggen

Miranda van Rooijen
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les têtes de nègre en question:


23.10.05

têtes de nègre! 

low and behold at the end of isle 2, top shelf, a'dam central albert hein supermarket in dam square... have i stepped into the twilight zone? apparently not since there is even a website to back it up. see for yourself, the image of the perfect 'nordic heidi', 'kissing' what has a very suggestive shape and size, and happens to be named, for all to see, negerzoenen (negro kisses or something), or for us frenchies, also on the box (along with german), "têtes de nègre"! make no mistake, this brand of bikkies can be purchased over the counter. they are from holland, now produced in tilburg, by a very proud meneer Buys. euh... no comment necessary on this one. scan of packaging coming soon!

p.s. in english they are called angel kisses, in german like 'creme' kisses, and somehow on the website it also says in french it's 'baiser de mousse', which is mousse kisses... hum? how did "têtes de nègre" get onto that package? i suspect the factory is being supplied with huge amounts of crack for all to smoke...

14.10.05

dear white sisters.... 

hum... i thought i was dreaming. after one has been googling for hours on end to try and find bloody info on 'shared spaces' in the netherlands to no avail, it isn't surprising that one is a bit foggy brained. perhaps this is not so schocking to some. when i read "as a White American" or "Dear White Sister", for starters, i think my brain has lapsed. however not today, stormfront white nationalist community exists of course... hum....
sadly it would be an easier task to catalogue the white suprematist groups than it is to find info on the creation of alternate spaces for shared living in the netherlands.

3.10.05

no connection 

i don't have internet connection at home since my move to a'dam. i feel like a smack junkie in rehab... i even watched t.v. yesterday. dutch 'reclame' are particularly funny. 'bout time i found out, i've been here more than a year!
i had a particularly disturbing dream about being somehow integrally connected to the WWW (like in my body), but the actual scary part is that it was in was all in dutch.