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Tim &Tom's over Mars Cheese Castle. Heck, even Woodman's in Pleasant Prairie. Fewer tourists pillaging the sample dishes.
I like the samples . Good stuff. No sales tax on food in Wisconsin, either. Now, I buy $10 to $20 worth of food each time I go, so I'm not a freeloader. Usually cheese, but sometimes beer or honey too. Plus, their cheese curds are totally awesome! They taste wonderful when I put them in an omelet.
I noticed that, too. "Braised" is the same kind of descriptive cooking technique word as "grilled" or "fried" or "roasted" I don't know what else you'd say in its place.
Um, no, it isn't.
To braise something you sear all sides, then cook it in a liquid.
I do not find the term plating anything except descriptive. EVOO does not equate to olive oil.
English speakers regularly use such acronyms as ASAP, VIP, etc instead of an entire phrase. If I remember correctly, snafu started life as an acronym. I think EVOO is in that tradition, and it is in current use now.
One of the characteristics of modern English is its capacity to acqire, adapt and invent new words. You can’t keep it from happening. And it happens in the food world, just as in the broader mainstream.
Sonar and radar are words that began as acronyms. There are many other acronyms that have become acceptable words.
I like the samples . Good stuff. No sales tax on food in Wisconsin, either. Now, I buy $10 to $20 worth of food each time I go, so I'm not a freeloader. Usually cheese, but sometimes beer or honey too. Plus, their cheese curds are totally awesome! They taste wonderful when I put them in an omelet.
Yep, we used to shop a lot at Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie when we were at Great Lakes. Though the commissary was tax free, as well.
I definitely come from a working class family. We had an antique shop in Notting Hill, on Portobello Road, and we lived above it.
Nice try DG, but I don’t think our American cousins are going to see a family that own an antique shop as “working class”, particularly if they’ve ever been to Portobello Road, and seen among some of the good stuff, the piles of scrap at mouth watering prices.
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I couldn't care less about what annoys people. I always have a cuppa for brekkie when I'm noshing egg and soldiers with rashers.
My wife fixed egg and soldiers for me once, when we were staying with friends in Albany NY, she said to our friends, “Do you ever make runny eggs and soldiers over here?”
They said, “Oh yeah, but we just call it eggs with toast.”
I do not find the term plating anything except descriptive. EVOO does not equate to olive oil.
English speakers regularly use such acronyms as ASAP, VIP, etc instead of an entire phrase. If I remember correctly, snafu started life as an acronym. I think EVOO is in that tradition, and it is in current use now.
One of the characteristics of modern English is its capacity to acqire, adapt and invent new words. You can’t keep it from happening. And it happens in the food world, just as in the broader mainstream.
So did "radar" and "scuba", although like "EVOO", I have never heard anyone SAY "ASAP" or "VIP" as though they were words. People say the letters.
I write and my daughter is a linguist, so I'm with you on that last sentence. Language changes constantly.
For some reason I just find "plating" annoying, just as I find "gifting" annoying. And even my daughter says "adulting". Grrr. Maybe it's just that I think this trend of taking a noun and adding "ing" on the end is just a little too cutesy. As I already made clear, it's my personal peeve and it's not something that's going to ruin my life.
I'm going coffeeing now. I need more.
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"Me want a yum-yum sammy in my tummy." -a 45 year old
Now where did I put my AR-15?
I really did just laugh out loud, ABQ. I'm going to hell.
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. Good stuff. No sales tax on food in Wisconsin, either. Now, I buy $10 to $20 worth of food each time I go, so I'm not a freeloader. Usually cheese, but sometimes beer or honey too. Plus, their cheese curds are totally awesome! They taste wonderful when I put them in an omelet.
