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Post by sophie on Nov 18, 2023 16:49:06 GMT -5
Our household loves all south of the border food.. our grandson (currently in Peru) had me laughing as he was reading the (very bad) translations of seafood dishes on a menu they were at.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 18, 2023 16:50:21 GMT -5
Well these aren't Mexico (or even LA/Texas)-quality items, just the average "Mexican" items that one can get in a grocery store in DC, so don't feel too bad. Well wait, the empanadas are real, but they aren't Mexican, they're El Salvadoran.
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Post by sprite on Nov 19, 2023 8:27:31 GMT -5
We have five different options for Mexican food in this house right now: flour tortillas for quesadillas, tamales, empanadas, some frozen enchiladas that I bought, and some unfrozen enchiladas that he bought. I often make vegetarian enchiladas, and for some reason, if they are better than usual, partner has taken to saying, "ah, these little enchiladas did not die in vain!"
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Post by sprite on Nov 19, 2023 8:28:29 GMT -5
PSW, is there anywhere around you that sells/ships frozen South AMerican food? I would think empanadas etc would freeze well.
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Post by tucano on Nov 19, 2023 8:40:27 GMT -5
There's an Argentine-run shop in Brighton that makes great empanadas (about ten different kinds), so I often pick up a couple when I'm there.
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Post by psw on Nov 19, 2023 8:50:54 GMT -5
There's an Argentine-run shop in Brighton that makes great empanadas (about ten different kinds), so I often pick up a couple when I'm there. Thanks, but Brighton is also an expedition for me. However - if you're there it might be worth the trip. Let me know next time you're visiting.
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Post by tucano on Nov 19, 2023 10:06:05 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 19, 2023 12:02:27 GMT -5
The radio is currently playing a very long spoken word thing that sounds like Vincent Price giving instructions for creating the ritual space for some elaborate ceremonial magic rite, but then every once in a while they play this woman going "Hell yeah!"
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Post by psw on Nov 19, 2023 13:05:33 GMT -5
My Brighton is part of Boston.
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Post by sprite on Nov 19, 2023 13:11:39 GMT -5
I laughed watching partner get riled up about how many English place names were used in New Englad, but not in any geographical relationship like the originals.
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Post by psw on Nov 19, 2023 13:17:20 GMT -5
What's also fun is to look around all the former British colonies for the various mixes of Old English place names and those in the indigenous languages of many continents. Also each modern country accumulates place names and especially street names, from waves of immigration.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 19, 2023 14:04:59 GMT -5
What gets even worse is if you go to Ohio, there are all these town names that are also in Connecticut. Like the early American settlers must have had like 30-word geographical vocabulary. "Let's call it Greenwich... calling all the previous places Greenwich worked, so why not"
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Post by psw on Nov 20, 2023 10:26:23 GMT -5
Menu item: Fried Native Calamari
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Post by groo on Nov 20, 2023 13:29:12 GMT -5
We have a New Brighton, adjacent to Billinudgel. No Pier, no rock, but good surf.
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Post by kneazle on Nov 21, 2023 0:40:49 GMT -5
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Post by Queen on Nov 21, 2023 9:47:11 GMT -5
Fascinating Aida's take on AI
NSFW
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 21, 2023 21:59:27 GMT -5
Song on the radio sounds like they're saying "Clancy! Put your pants on" so pero and I are singing along with it "Clancy! Put your pants on"
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Post by tucano on Nov 22, 2023 5:33:47 GMT -5
The email I received which started 'Dear Example Forename'. Way to make a girl feel special.
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Post by scicaro on Nov 24, 2023 6:30:18 GMT -5
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Post by tucano on Nov 24, 2023 12:19:39 GMT -5
Finland looks like he's had a hard life.
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Post by sprite on Nov 24, 2023 15:10:11 GMT -5
I assumed top left was Norway, in which case 'Finland' appears to be gearing up for a hell of a party.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 24, 2023 18:20:30 GMT -5
I just realized that that's the "Ladies and Gentlemen, the weekend" guy
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 24, 2023 18:37:29 GMT -5
This guy who follows me on Mastodon likes my reading recommendations, and praised my choices to someone else, who then was like "ooh I'll follow her too." The reason I'm laughing is because I am currently reading a fantasy novel about witches defeating Hitler in WW2... so that's probably not what this guy is expecting to hear about from me after I was made to look like some kind of literary genius.
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Post by sprite on Nov 25, 2023 17:06:15 GMT -5
I just realized that that's the "Ladies and Gentlemen, the weekend" guy Do you mean the dance number commercial?
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Post by sprite on Nov 25, 2023 17:08:53 GMT -5
everyone coming into the bookstore commented on the cold. It was about 4C, which is a few degrees colder than it's been all month.
except one guy walking around in jeans and a tank top.
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 25, 2023 17:20:33 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 25, 2023 17:45:15 GMT -5
Oh, except that I see in the URL that it's Daniel Craig, who was in James Bond movies which I haven't seen since the last one I saw was "Live and Let Die," in roughly 1976.
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Post by psw on Nov 25, 2023 21:11:02 GMT -5
Department of Let not thy right hand know what thy left is doing:
In the mail, a postcard concert announcement from a music ensemble to which I had made a memorial donation in Mr. W's name addressed:
Mr. M..... (Diseased) W......
There was a second identical card properly addressed to me.
How many things are wrong with this picture?
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Post by Liiisa on Nov 26, 2023 6:32:00 GMT -5
"Diseased"! omg
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Post by riverhorse on Nov 26, 2023 12:23:16 GMT -5
Oh dear, psw! I am laughing at the obvious misnomer after PG popped to a nearby supermarket this morning to grab a few things for a simple breakfast. (The posh hotel I upgraded us to was fabulous, but the breakfast supplement charge was out of this world!) Anyhow, he came back with a cheese for us to bring home labeled 'Petit Brie'. That mother was a whacking great 500g wheel. Nothing petit about it!
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