Geruechtekueche

"It sounds like something yummy, but it's anything but appetizing. "Geruechtekueche" literally means "rumor kitchen," and the image is perfect: the place you cook up all sorts of true and untrue things to say about other people. The word implies a mastery of blending ingredients together into one big soup, so that truth and fiction can no longer be distinguished from one another. And when the Geruechtekueche really gets going, the Germans say, "die Geruechtekueche brodelt" - the rumor kitchen is brewing and bubbling. Then, you can just imagine a little witch hunched over her kettle, muttering, "Double, double, toil and trouble. Fire burn, and caldron bubble." In other words, there's nothing like chowing down on a good ol' rumor. Guten Appetit!