Bread Wars - It's all Over!

Yes folks it's time to lay down my French stick and hang up my Pistoles, the bread war is over. Regular readers will not need reminding of my struggle against the bread makers of Belgium. My previous post mentioned a visit to the bakers with a real, live Dutch speaker and the problem she had making herself understood. Yesterday, I walked down the street to make my 2 regular Sunday stops. Firstly, I dropped the dvd off that we watched Saturday night. This weeks movie was Righteous Kill staring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. The movie was watchable but OH MY GOD, doesn't Al look old! Just how old are cops in America? He had to chase the bad guy on a mobility scooter!
Where was I?
Second stop was the bakers. I should say now that I had a delicious Sunday morning lay in which was in danger of turning into Sunday afternoon, so my visit to the bakers was about 2 hours later than normal. When I got there the shelves were almost empty, but luckily for me they had 3 loaves of the easy to pronounce Salsa bread. With 2 people in front of me I did the math and was happy with result!
This is what happened:
ME - Salsa
HER - Lang Witte?
ME - !
I finally came to the conclusion that it's not me, it's them. There's no way to make Salsa sound like Lang Witte, not only does it sound different but it has less syllables as well! I left the bakers happy in the knowledge that my accent might be bad but not so bad as to make what I say completely different to what they hear. I don't know why they should mis-hear what I say, it's not as if I have to shout across a huge chasm at them, they are only a few feet away. Sure it's a mystery but so are the Easter Island statues and people being intrested in Formula 1. I shall leave that little mystery where it belongs and not let it bother me any more. Please let me state this now that I am not bakerist, in fact some of my best friends are bakers. My previous posts have been a light hearted look at my personal struggle with the Dutch language and if I have hurt the feelings of any bakers over the past few months then I can only say...TOUGH!