My god...he's gonna do the whole speech.

Buffy ,'Chosen'


Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


amych - Feb 02, 2006 10:58:30 am PST #4602 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Better than the "carnivorous plants are pets" email of yesterday?

If it weren't for the president's ban on cross-species hybrid freaks of nature, I'd get right to work on a venus flytrap that eats dictionaries.


Topic!Cindy - Feb 02, 2006 11:01:19 am PST #4603 of 10002
What is even happening?

Cooking corned beef till grey is a sign of a bad cook, not a bad culinary culture.

Aren't there two kinds of corned beef you buy--one is grey, and one is red?

Are the bacon and sausages different from the ones you'd get in the rest of the British Isles? I don't doubt they're great, but I see Irish food as food that's different from day to day fare in the UK.

Isn't that a hard line to draw? Every culture has bread. Every Euro country has white bread, but I might have really loved the bread in France (had I ever been there, which I haven't). If someone's talking about how good or bad the Xculture food is, does the item have to be unique to the country, or at least a hallmark in some way?


erikaj - Feb 02, 2006 11:11:57 am PST #4604 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I went to a very nice little Irish place in the DC suburbs once. They had very solid, non-glam, stick-to-your-ribs food, but nothing seemed overdone that I could tell. I liked it well enough. But it's not sexy, though.


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 11:16:40 am PST #4605 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Every culture has bread.

And many cultures do them differently. Doesn't take a professional to tell the difference between Jamaican bread and French.

Doesn't take a pro to tell Jamaican curry from any English or Indian curry I've ever tasted either.

That'd be like there being only one beef dish, even within a cuisine.

If it's like all the other bread or curry or whatever, it's not characteristic, not a defining factor. Which is why I asked about the sameness. In fact, the question I initially posed was to find out about the differentiators. Does Ireland pretty much eat like the UK? Well, their breads are different, for starters.

Was Matt harshing on British food, I wondered? Why so specific?

And lo, questions answered.

My co-worker should stop staring at my breasts.


msbelle - Feb 02, 2006 11:34:34 am PST #4606 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

boy or girl?


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 11:35:26 am PST #4607 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Boy.


msbelle - Feb 02, 2006 11:36:31 am PST #4608 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

stare puzzeled at either his crotch or some part of his face not his eyes.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 02, 2006 11:37:25 am PST #4609 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I've tried to give the local variations of Irish food a chance, going on the theory that the culinary nightmares perpetuated by my ancestors weren't representative. But it's turned my stomach at every attempt.

. . .except bacon, which is of the Devil.

Exactly. That's why it's so tasty.


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 11:39:40 am PST #4610 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

stare puzzeled at either his crotch or some part of his face not his eyes.

Well, the pretend it's not happening approach is sorely lacking. And now he's made me so late I can't get a tea latte before the meeting. DAMN HIM.


msbelle - Feb 02, 2006 11:46:15 am PST #4611 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

damn him straight to hell.