"Tijdens mijn geboorte aten mijn ouders vla."
Translation:During my birth, my parents ate custard.
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Just curious. Could "vla" possibly be a cognate of the Spanish (or French) "flan"?
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On this site http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/vlade you can find that it is connected to all kinds of foreign words that mean flat/broad/wide, because vla(de) used to refer to a flat piece of cake or pie, topped with a custard-like substance. In Limburg, "vlaai" still does mean that (although the topping is usually a fruit preserve instead of custard), but "vla" has become the word for just the topping.
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Heel graag gedaan, Aling14! I hope you didn't notice that I didn't answer your question ;) But it seems flan and flan de leche have the same origins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%A8me_caramel