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My son is two. He loves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. One day, I referred to it as a PB&J, and he thought I said "Baby J," and now he always requests Baby Js. It's fun in public, nobody knows what the hell a "Baby J" is.
You’ve got a family name for a common sandwich! What fun!
There was a rather well-known Skid Row bar in Chicago that had a sign in front offering an 18 oz. schooner for 15 cents. Although I was but a callow youth when I first saw this sign, I knew that they weren't talking about lemonade. I never entered this establishment, but I did see men sleeping on the sidewalk in front of the place.
I did like the romance of the term schooner. It had far more charm than skid row bar signs in Denver which said simply, "20% quart 89 cents" [their punctuation] Denver pawn shops were far better than Chicago's, however. The best ones were always on skid row regardless of the city. Interestingly, these areas were quite safe for normal people.
Schooners are a type of glassware - basically a large beer glass on a footed stem.
They are not the same as growlers, which is more like a jug with a fitted cap. Most modern growlers have a screw on lid, but some do have a fitted fliptop with ceramic plug and rubber seal.
My pet peeve is they have all different names for cuts of beef. Half the time I can't find what the recipe says and have to ask the butcher, and the ones in the supermarket don't know a heck of a lot either.
Now this is a pet peeve of mine. You have to translate the cut of meat specified in the recipe to the cuts of meat you can find.
Even when a store has butchers available, they are often none too happy to get you the cut you want, or to cut a piece on request.
Certainly, those other terms can be helpful in describing the taste of wine. It's just that it seems to me that I seldom encounter references to the taste of grapes in those descriptions.
All wine is made of grapes. It would not be a useful description to call a wine's taste "grapes."
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Because I've never encountered a wine I enjoyed, so those aroma/flavor "notes" elude me. Now, fruit it up as a Sangria and I'm fine.
It is not a particularly constructive comment. If you've only encountered "sweet" and "bitter" in wine, then you haven't really made an attempt.
Hmm. Back in the '80s I had a boss who used the Italian word for eggplant, mulignane, all the time, but he wasn't referring to food.
Nowadays, his azz would be fired, and rightly so.
I know what you mean, but I learned the Italian word for eggplant (and used in slang the same way) as melanzana. Searching for mulignane turns up the same 2 meanings. I guess there are many words for the same things.
While I enjoy wine, honestly I cannot differentiate the flavors, but I can in food.
My family all lives in wine country, but I am restricted to "like" and "do not like" as I'm NOT going to pretend that I enjoy the oaky bouquet that is offset by richness of the currants and chocolate.
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It seems like the tv hosts have finally slowed down on using the term "decadent" to describe just about any dish they find pleasing. I prefer not to eat anything that is decayed or decadent, or is prepared to taste like it is. Thanks, though.
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