Food Idioms

In Sajem Tan culture, the names of various foods are used as idioms for abstract concepts, mainly dealing with productivity and whether a discussion is on-topic or off-topic. It began with pasta and pastry (which see, below), but the tradition has grown to include other foods.

Dûden (Pasta)
Dûden (pasta) refers to conversation that is off-topic, especially that is in some way wild or humorous. It was the first food idiom. Its homeland is Dûdengyvnamţnëk (the Pasta Kitchen) and the other off-topic regions of Sajem Din, though it frequently ventures to other regions.

One variety of pasta is known as kexekdökatdûden "emoji pasta", which is emoji spam. It has its own channel.

Tamat (Pastry)
In contrast to pasta, tamat (pastry) refers to on-topic discussion.

Cic (Cheese)

 * some days I'm the cheeser and some days I'm the cheesee, but today I think I can say that I've taken the further step of being the cheese
 * Stone / Bear, 30 December 2018

Cic (cheese) is throwing nonsense at a system to see if the system holds up to it. It is essentially the testing of a hypothesis, though with silly, pasta-esque tests.

The name originates from a conversation concerning whether or not Sajem Tan words should be based on triconsonantal roots. Stone proposed a list of vowel patters to be applied to consonantal roots to generate new words, but the system was considered outlandish. Therefore, to undermine and demean the system, Wind and Fern began jokingly coining words for different types of cheese using the triconsonantal root c_c_c "cheese", and their coinages often fit the patterns strikingly well.

Rüzim (Chocolate)
Rüzim (chocolate) is off-topic conversation that turns out to have been on-topic all along, or it becomes on-topic.

Jyţak (Strawberry)
Jyţak (strawberry) is something that becomes pasta even though it did not seem likely to do so originally. This got its name after Wind posted a tutorial video on how to make pasta from strawberries on 7 February, 2018 7:03 p.m.