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Post by Webs on Mar 29, 2024 11:56:58 GMT -5
I like a good supplemental but I'm very skeptical of anything that says it's everything you need for a meal.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 29, 2024 12:33:47 GMT -5
Häagen-Dazs's name really bothered me when it first came out. There was a map of Scandinavia on the lid, but I didn't know of any Scandinavian language that could have a zs, or of any Scandinavian language (or any European language, maybe any language at all) that could have an ä with an umlaut immediately followed by an a without one. It was a while before I learned that it was entirely made up, as others have mentioned here, and had no actual connection with Scandinavia, and I could sleep again. Similar thing happened with the now defunct US sandwich chain Quizno's. I couldn't imagine what language that name came from. And then I learned that the founder had read that Q and Z were the most memorable letters for English speakers, and played around with various combinations. I should have suspected as much. remember frusen gladje ice creams? vinny, i think some branches of quiznos still exist. vaguely remember one @ dfw airport funny bout the q & z, tho
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Post by shilgia on Mar 29, 2024 12:36:17 GMT -5
I like a good supplemental but I'm very skeptical of anything that says it's everything you need for a meal. I guess I'm the opposite. I would never buy anything that's a supplement unless I had been diagnosed with some specific deficiency. But I'm at least curious about anything that promises to be a meal that's ready in 5 minutes. Huel seems like not real food though, so there's that.
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 29, 2024 14:40:44 GMT -5
TIL, from Wikipedia:
Except for the accent on the é, Frusen Glädjé is actual Swedish = frozen joy.
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 29, 2024 14:43:13 GMT -5
And I also learned that there are still 400 Quiznos, down from over 5000.
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Post by Webs on Mar 29, 2024 17:23:22 GMT -5
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Post by Webs on Mar 29, 2024 17:27:22 GMT -5
Also, you can't buy Frujen Glade anywhere anymore.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 29, 2024 17:35:03 GMT -5
i actually liked the frujen glade flavors more than haagan daaz
tho i miss the fosters freeze of my childhood
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Post by sprite on Mar 30, 2024 15:37:36 GMT -5
I like a good supplemental but I'm very skeptical of anything that says it's everything you need for a meal. I guess I'm the opposite. I would never buy anything that's a supplement unless I had been diagnosed with some specific deficiency. But I'm at least curious about anything that promises to be a meal that's ready in 5 minutes. Huel seems like not real food though, so there's that. Partner uses it as a protein boost, he's very into all that muscle stuff. He even gets Arnie's newsletter. His reading pile varies from 'The Heavy Bag Bible' to 'Roman Military Logistics'. It makes me laugh.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 30, 2024 15:41:33 GMT -5
The thought of eating a protein meal shake makes me a little queasy. I only like to eat actual normal food made from actual ingredients that someone's grandmother would have recognized. ("Someone's," since my grandmother didn't know from tofu or whatever.)
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 30, 2024 15:48:51 GMT -5
And I also learned that there are still 400 Quiznos, down from over 5000. While I have no idea what a Quiznos is, I do know that both Q and Z are worth 10 points each in Scrabble! X and J are each worth 8!
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 30, 2024 15:52:04 GMT -5
The thought of eating a protein meal shake makes me a little queasy. I only like to eat actual normal food made from actual ingredients that someone's grandmother would have recognized. ("Someone's," since my grandmother didn't know from tofu or whatever.) Neither my grandma, nanna or mum would have ever heard of tofu. I have but don’t know what it is. Is that the stuff Koreans eat when they get out of gaol?
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Post by Queen on Mar 30, 2024 16:15:14 GMT -5
Most of East and South East Asia has tofu dishes in their cuisine Phar, it's been an ingredient in Chinese cuisine for 2000 years.
No clue where you got gaol from, but appreciate the archaic spelling.
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Post by sprite on Mar 30, 2024 16:48:20 GMT -5
you know how milk can be made into cheese?
In a sort of similar way, soybeans can be made into a liquid which can be made into tofu, but just not as many varieties of tofu as cheese.
I really like it, either lightly fried on it's own, in chunks in a spicy dish, or blended into a sauce.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 30, 2024 17:42:26 GMT -5
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Post by jimm on Mar 31, 2024 4:01:07 GMT -5
Deep fried tofu (just for a short time)- yum!
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 31, 2024 6:16:35 GMT -5
Age-dashi tofu (deep-fried tofu in a tasty soy-based sauce) - yum!
I always throw a little butter in my pan-fried tofu.
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Post by Queen on Mar 31, 2024 6:52:56 GMT -5
marinated tofu. Yum.
stir fry tofy. yum.
Mapu dofu. yum.
sticky miso tofu. yum.
stinky tofu. not yum
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 31, 2024 8:29:17 GMT -5
I've never had stinky tofu and have no plans to do so (ditto the Icelandic rotting shark dish, balut, etc).
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Post by Queen on Mar 31, 2024 8:37:44 GMT -5
I've smelt it, that was enough.
Cant deal with Tibetan food that has the sour yak's milk or blue cheese for much the same reasons. And no to Hakarl and balut...
I've eaten century eggs - that was enough.
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 31, 2024 9:53:54 GMT -5
I bought balut at a Filipino grocery store here once just to try it. The appearance is the worst part, but it's tasty enough.
I wonder how Filipino ovo-vegetarians think of balut, as meat or as eggs? Perhaps opinions differ, as with most things.
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Post by Phar Lap on Mar 31, 2024 12:08:16 GMT -5
No clue where you got gaol from, but appreciate the archaic spelling. Gaol is British, jail is American. We were taught gaol at school. Jail to me just looks wrong. Like favourites without the ‘u’. Or colour without the ‘u’.
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 31, 2024 13:36:57 GMT -5
To me those alt-spellings look ok, but excessively fancy vinnyd you are braver than me!
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Post by Queen on Mar 31, 2024 14:01:04 GMT -5
Gaol is obsolete/archaic in BrE. Colour and favourite are not.
It turns up in names occasionally, but jail is almost always used in general text.
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Post by vinnyd on Mar 31, 2024 14:07:50 GMT -5
Spelling public and tonic etc without the final k was also an American innovation. I wonder if Phar Lap insists on publick and tonick.
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Post by Queen on Mar 31, 2024 14:23:25 GMT -5
To be fair, the change to gaol -> jail is within my lifetime and Phar's.
Apparently sulphur is now spelt sulfur, and Pluto is no longer a planet.
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Post by sprite on Mar 31, 2024 14:50:18 GMT -5
perilla oil, if you can get it, is very nice for pan frying tofu.
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Post by tzarine on Mar 31, 2024 17:18:19 GMT -5
the ice cream in b.a was pretty lovely
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Post by Liiisa on Mar 31, 2024 18:27:11 GMT -5
We always spelled it sulfur. But it's still phosphorus.
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Post by wombatrois on Mar 31, 2024 20:09:08 GMT -5
Good god, sulfur!?! (I don't think I've ever seen it spelt like that tbh). Obvs you can tell I'm not from a STEM background educationally speaking.
I'm fairly sure there are very few Filipino vegetarians ...
And, while I don't have much call to use the word, we did learn to spell it gaol and did use the gaol/jail option here quite recently. Just to cover all bases, without knowing it was actually obsolete [quelle horreur]
Pluto is back being a planet isn't it? Albeit a dwarf planet.
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