Contains Silphium, a plant which was a common ingredient in the classical world, but now no one knows exactly what it was. (The leading theory is that it's a real plant that went extinct.) There's much about that world that we don't really know.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20170907-the-mystery-of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium

What’s mainly annoying is how this has broken HN layout. There’s some CSS for that.

I think the ingredient Silphium described in this dish (Now considered extinct) could be Sea Holly (Eryngium spp). Its highly debated as many authors think it is some extinct variety of fennel, but from the images on the coins it doesnt look like a Fennel.

https://youtu.be/GlGKwS3E3iA?t=77m37s

No bollocks

https://youtu.be/XUQ1xIbziP0

HN cut it off at "karab" and I thought this was the generic name of some new drug.

This should have been an April Fools clue on Wheel of Fortune with Vanna White just about to die at the end of having to turn over all the letters.

The two words that struck me are this chemical compound [1] (quite artificial as a name if you ask me, but apparently considered as a word), and this perfectly real hill name [2]

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Protologisms/Long_wo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangi%C2%ADhangako...

How to never have anyone play Hangman with you again

Legend has it that someone posted the recipe years ago, but the double-whammy of the long title and the HN need to remove "How to make …" broke the site.

> is the longest word ever to appear in literature

Thank goodness Joyce doesn't have the record with his invented words in Finnegans Wake.

Oh I come across German words bigger than that every now and then.

I'm mostly, and pleasantly, surprised that Firefox's hyphenation algorithm handles this reasonably.

AKA L181n.

Dang, you should change it to "Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon" via your admin superpowers!

I wonder if this is in meter? I know Philoctetes' pain noises are.

I thought it was German and had an awful time trying to parse it. Makes so much more sense once one knows it's Greek.

The "context" section of this article is very interesting!

Reminds me of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...

This is why I quit linguistics, Too many syllables.

antidisestablishmentarianism

supercalifragilisticexpialadocious

An I thought it was about another obscure PHP error.

I want to taste it

Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.

I thought this was a news site for tech, not a Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics repository

I had ChatGPT spend a few kWh coming up with Algorithmo­startupo­venturecapito­open­sourco­licensio­privacy­securito­rustigo­golo­kuberneto­cloudio­saaso­distributedo­databaso­latencyphobo­showhn­askhn­commento­pedanto­longformo­ai­llmo­promptomancy­ethico­regulatio­controversio­burnoutikon, which apparently describes the vibe here on HN.

Fun false fact that I just invented : the Monty Python briefly considered to have Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm to mutter Lopado­temacho­selacho­galeo­kranio­leipsano­drim­hypo­trimmato­silphio­karabo­melito­katakechy­meno­kichl­epi­kossypho­phatto­perister­alektryon­opte­kephallio­kigklo­peleio­lagoio­siraio­baphe­tragano­pterygon, but John Cleese, who play the man interviewing the last descendent of Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, being a fervent Latin teacher opposed the idea because he thought that was Greek nonsense.