# Condiment Udders? What say you! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346 "2025-10-27T23:46:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/1 "2025-10-27T23:46:36Z")
Title says it all. Also, band name. [![](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/c033a64d-7d19-4e0a-aa2f-796c2ec86895) ](https://images.spot.im/image/upload/v200/c033a64d-7d19-4e0a-aa2f-796c2ec86895) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/2 "2025-10-27T23:54:28Z")
What’s the German word for “condiment udders”? I’ll bet it’s a long one. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/3 "2025-10-28T00:05:19Z")
Are those handled by employees, or by customers? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/4 "2025-10-28T00:07:39Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > What’s the German word for “condiment udders”? I’ll bet it’s a long one. According to Copilot **There’s no direct German word for “condiment udders,” but a playful compound would be “Soßen-Euter.”** This phrase is a humorous mashup: - **“Soße”** means _sauce_ or _condiment_. - **“Euter”** is the word for _udder_ To confirm I asked ChatGPT "What’s a Soßen-Euter? The German term **“Soßen-Euter”** literally breaks down as: - **Soßen** = “sauces” (plural of _Soße_) - **Euter** = “udder” (as in a cow’s udder) So, **“Soßen-Euter”** would literally mean _“sauce udder.”_ However — this isn’t a standard German word. It’s most likely: - A **joke** , **nickname** , or **slang invention** , referring to something that _dispenses sauce like an udder_ (for example, a squeeze bottle, sauce bag, or multi-nozzle dispenser). - Sometimes used humorously in German meme culture to describe **a sauce packet or bottle with multiple openings** — as if it’s “milking out” sauce. So in English, you could translate **Soßen-Euter** humorously as: 👉 “sauce udder,” “sauce bag,” or “sauce dispenser.” ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/5 "2025-10-28T00:07:39Z")
Certified German dairy maids, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/6 "2025-10-28T00:13:40Z")
I was thinking more along the lines of _Sauceundgewürzerinderspritzflasche_. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/7 "2025-10-28T00:20:27Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > To confirm I asked ChatGPT "What’s a Soßen-Euter? Not much, what’s a Soßen-Euter with you? ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/8 "2025-10-28T02:03:00Z")
20 Deutsch Marks, same as in town ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/9 "2025-10-28T02:07:55Z")
I think that euro-ng about what money Germany uses. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/10 "2025-10-28T02:18:25Z")
Huh, I thought you were going to mention those rubbery Kewpie mayonnaise bottles or those Russian squeezable bags. Easier to squeeze some out than trying to spoon condiment out of a deep glass bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/11 "2025-10-28T08:50:20Z")
I’ve seen these kind of contraptions (without brand names) twenty years ago already in Norway, at a ski resort. I assumed they were common in Norway. Never seen them anywhere else, though. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/12 "2025-10-28T12:07:37Z")
Does this make anyone else think of he dispensers in the Korova Milk bar in Stanley Kubrick’s movie **a Clockwork Orange**? > **[File:Korova Milk Bar mannequin (9050167488).jpg](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Korova_Milk_Bar_mannequin_(9050167488).jpg)** Or that **“Soßen-Euter.”** has the same metric stresses as “Fluffernutter”? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/13 "2025-10-28T12:14:18Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Are those handled by employees, or by customers? Based on the limited view we have in the picture, they appear to be on the employee side of the counter. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/14 "2025-10-28T12:19:57Z")
I think it’s great! It makes perfect sense, which is probably why it’s not done in our society. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/15 "2025-10-28T12:24:02Z")
Perhaps slightly less amusing if you just called them “hanging condiment dispensers.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/16 "2025-10-28T14:09:27Z")
Those—look like Condoms. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/17 "2025-10-28T14:13:55Z")
Why is the mustard bottle white? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/18 "2025-10-28T14:25:41Z")
Because mustard comes in many colors. White is probably more common than yellow outside of North America. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/19 "2025-10-28T14:48:06Z")
As a native German speaker, I concur with Copilot. Soßeneuter is a perfectly cromulent word for the appliances in question that everybody would understand. But I bet that’s not the official technical term, though I have no idea what it is. I’ve also never seen a Soßeneuter in Germany before, it’s not common, but it’s been a long time since I have been at Frankfurt Airport. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346/20 "2025-10-29T11:50:47Z")
Good to see that the Sriracha isn’t going to bow down to its udder overlords. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condiment-udders-what-say-you/1024346.md?page=2)