2026-10-01: Secondbreakfast Returns

We'll get to my second breakfast, but first a little short story for fun:

There once was a sweet old lady named Fini. Fini loved to make apricot dumplings, or Marillenknödel as they're known as in Austria. One day Fini went to the doctor because her eyes were not working so well, and he said "Fini, your eyes are very sick, so we shall have to operate". "Oh dear!" Fini thought. Fini went home to make some marillenknödel to calm herself down.
The next day, she went to the doctor again, and he started operating on her eyes. When the operation was over, the doctor said to her "Fini, your eyes need time to heal. I took them out and I will keep them here until they are all better, then I will put them back in". Fini had to call her daughter to come pick her up and take her home. On the way home, she said to her daughter "Now that I have no eyes, how will I watch my favorite show, Inspector Rex?". "I don't know! oh dear, how terrible!" her daughter replied.

When Fini got home, she was very sad because she would miss her favorite TV show. As she was thinking, she could smell the marillenknödel in the kitchen that she made earlier. Then it came to her - "I know!", she thought. "I shall use my marillenknödel for eyes!". "Walk me to the kitchen", she said to her daughter. "And hand me 2 of the marillenknödel". Her daughter did as she asked, and Fini put the marillenknödel in her eye sockets. "How do I look?", Fini asked her daughter. "It's missing something", she said. Fini's daughter paused for a moment, then said "Ah! I've got it!". Fini's daughter found some poppy seeds, and put them on the marillenknödel to make them look like pupils. "Much better. What's your vision like?" she asked Fini. Fini looked around. Everything looked orange, and everything smelled like apricots, but she could now see. "It's an improvement" she said. The smell was making Fini hungry. "Let's have some lunch, there are plenty of marillenknödel to eat".
Fini started eating the marillenknödel, and she noticed that after eating each one, her eyesight got better. Fini gobbled up as many marillenknödel as she could, and when they were all gone, she said to her daughter: "We must make as many marillenknödel as we can!". And so they got to work, making enough marillenknödel to fill a house. Fini kept baking marillenknodel and eating them, and her eyesight got very good. Now she could watch Inspector Rex.

A few days later, the doctor called up Fini and said to her "Hello Fini, your eyes are all better. Come in today and I shall put them back in so you can see again". "Fantastic!", Fini thought. She grabbed her car keys and walked to the door. Fini opened the door and tried to walk through it, but she was having some difficulty. Her daughter who had been watching TV all night just woke up and walked to the door after hearing Fini struggle. "Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed. "You have eaten so many marillenknödel that you are the size of a giant marillenknödel!". Her daughter walked to the door and pushed Fini through the door frame with her foot. Fini was relieved to get out of the house, but she knew that there was no way she would fit in the car. "How will we get to the doctor's office", she asked her daughter. Her daughter thought about it for a second, and then realised that Fini was very round, like a marillenknödel. "I know!", she said. "I shall roll you to the doctors office". And with that, her daughter rolled her all the way to the doctors office.

Fini rolled all the way to the doctors office, and her daughter pushed her through the door frame. She rolled past the receptionist and sqeezed into the room where the doctor was waiting. Fini rolled onto the operating table, and the doctor took the marillenknödel out of her eye sockets, and put her old eyes back in. "Well, what do you think?", he asked. With her vision completely restored, she was very happy. "I can see perfectly now! thank you very much. But now I have a new problem, I have become very round from eating so many marillenknödel, and now I won't be able to get around because I can't fit in my car".
"I have an idea", the doctor said.
The doctor rolled Fini out the front door, and pulled a pin out. He pricked Fini in the back, and Fini rushed up into the air, like a balloon letting all it's air out. As Fini flew into the air, all of the marillenknödel she ate fell all over the town, covering the entire neighbourhood with marillenknödel. Fini got so high in the air she reached the clouds, and then started falling back to the ground. She bounced off her car, and landed in her driveway, and the last marillenknödel came out. Now Fini was back to her normal self, she was the right size again, and she could see like she did before. Fini went inside her house, sat down, and started watching Inspector Rex.

After a while, her daughter came through the door. She looked very tired from all the walking. "Oh dear! you look like you need a rest. Would you like to sit down and I will bring you something to eat?", she said to her daughter.
"No, thank you. I ate some marillenknödel on the way home".

I hope you enjoyed my short story! for second breakfast today I had a coffee and a coconut macaroon. See you next time!