English: be bland (referring to food)
German: fade (Essen)
Source: KGT
Category: food
KLCP Level: 3
KGT 85: To the Klingon palate, the best food tastes tlhorgh ("pungent", though some non-Klingons may prefer to translate the word as "rank" or "gamey")... The opposite of tlhorgh is tlhorghHa', conventionally translated as "bland" but literally meaning "unpungent", the implication being that the natural punch has somehow been taken out of the food as a result of how it was prepared. The same ideas are often expressed idiomatically. When talking about the quality of a dish, one may say ... jejHa' pach ("The claw is dull"; in other words, the food is bland, where jejHa' [dull] really means something like "de-sharpened"). KGT 42: the normal way to describe bland food is to call it tlhorghHa' ("not pungent"). In the past, the word jot was used in this sense, though now its meaning has changed to "be calm". An upper-class diner will, from time to time, still describe food as jot ... Among the lower classes-except for those working as servants for the higher classes-words like HajDob and tu'lum are known but seldom used, and words like jot and ru' are used only in their modern senses. Similar words: non be rotten (v) ngIm be putrid (v) rogh ferment (v) ragh decay (v)
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