Location: Berlin, Germany
Word or Expression: der Suppenkasper
Closest English Translation: finicky eater
Literal Translation: soup casper
The early 19th century book Struwelpeter, written by Heinrich Hoffmann included a story of a Suppenkasper, a child who doesn’t want to eat and eventually dies of hunger. It brings to mind of (albeit instead of trying to indoctrinate children on the virtues of eating properly, it subversively and humorously reverses the roles of righteousness) Shel Silverstein’s story of a girl who dies because her parents won’t give her a pony, in the book Where the Sidewalk Ends.
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