Baking a pris?

[Slydel]

Umm, from what I have seen "baking" a pris is just forming it your hand. So why do they call it "baking" if you never use an oven? Please help me, the ignorant one.

[chainsnuser]

It's derived from the Swedish word 'baka' which obviously has several meanings:

- to bake something in the oven
- to clump something together or harden something, that has the consistency of sand or mud (or snus) in a technical meaning, used by geologists or engineers. Can't it also be used in that meaning in English?

In English you could also say "children bake pies from sand with toy-moulds."

I don't know, if the 'baking' of a pris is derived from the picture of children playing with sand or mud or from 'material-sciences'. I guess the former. :lol:

BTW, I'm neither a Swede nor a linguist, so take it for what it's worth.

Strangely I just get the feeling that my portion is used up and I'm going to bake me a prilla now.

Cheers!

[Slydel]

I have never heard the word "bake" used in that way. I am glad I looked at Zeros video before I asked "Why in the hell would people be baking their snus in the oven?" The question was asked because I wanted to find out why the term was used. I am glad I did not ask the aforementioned question because I would either get 1) no response 2) or so many questioning my sanity for asking.

Cheers

[Zero]

haha, no questions of sanity - the etymology of linguistic convention is a totally understandable curiosity. It is a bizarre word. I think chainsnuser basically summed it up correctly, at any rate.