Hopeful

I just bought a zenker fackelmann muffin tin. Or is that a fackelmann zenker muffin tin? I can never get those German sentence structures right. ANYHOW, there's a list of translations that made me smile--it's so hopeful, so drenched in the trust that these little muffin tins will be zooming the length and breadth of the western world, plucked from the shelves by eager housewives in Croatian villages, the Russian steppe, the lavender-scented hills of Provence. THEY CANNOT RESIST US, WOLFGANG, I picture the facklemann zenker/zenker facklemann CEO giddy with excitement, eyes bright with purpose:

Muffin-Backform
Moule a muffin
Muffin tin
Muffin vormpjes
Foremki do ciastek
Suto forma
Formine per muffin
Muffinsform
Molde para muffin
Forma na muffiny
Forma-muffin
Pekac za mufine
Tava de copt
Pisirme kalibi

I'm amazed by how sturdy the word "muffin" is--apparently almost everyone in the world finds it sweet, filling and descriptive. Normally, it's only military hardware and Windows-based programs that have those kind of legs, that ability to bind the world together. So today, here's wishing that we could all stop firing rockets at one another then blogging about it, and just have a nice cup of coffee and a muffiny or two, chat about the kids and what to do with all those zucchini, relax and notice that this is a pretty nice place and we should really mow the lawn.