Anybody else want to vote to close that "processed food" question and I'll be happy to cut it short; to me it's violently off-topic but I'd like to see at least 2-3 close votes first...
We bought some pizza bases the other day and I just realized the package says to store below 4°C (39°F). We didn't store them in the fridge. Will these be safe to eat?
They contain wheat flour and yeast.
This post is an attempt to keep track of the terms that differ between dialects of English or exist in some dialects but not others: British / Australian / Canadian / American / etc.
It's a community wiki, so feel free to edit and clarify or add additional items. The comments are getting long, s...
I am not the only international user here, and I bet that others are just as confused as I am when we read something on an American-centric resource and the corresponding translation in our language turns out to mean something entirely different.
There are also examples in the other direction, w...
so I did a quick search of just "english" and found some offtopic questions. One of them is the one above where someone is specifically asking for translation of english equipment into italian
@Mien in less than two weeks ill be back in classes and then i can watch movies in the middle of the day if I want too!(if i dont have classes at the time)
Arrg, I hate the way they switched to doing out performance reviews a few years ago. The scale is the same 1-5, but now they consider anything above 3 to be freaking amazing and are required to always give at least one 2. So even 3.1 and above is considered a freaking amazing score even though 3 is "meets expectations". There's a only a handful of people that even end up at a 3.
@rfusca - at my last job, i asked the VP what it would take to get a 5 on my review and he said "cure cancer". and he was pretty much serious. he was a dick :)
when they made the policy change to 'grade' like that a couple of years ago, they made several managers go back and re-review their people lower. So we had one manager that gave his employees their score and their 'real' score....ya he's not with us anymore
@dpollitt it should be worth all that trouble for the raise tho :)
"If I am president, I shall give everyone more money!" i remember some kid saying that in grade school during a presentation about how he would cahnge the country if he were president. Kids are so cute and naive :)
There are several existing questions that is on the edge of being off-topic but is kepted around because it is constructive in helping clear up other questions which is ambiguous due to a language block between different countries. Specifically I am referring to:
What international cooking term...
Not working in the industry and hearing terms used, it can be quite embarrassing describing an ingredient, dish, technique or even piece of equipment and be corrected on pronunciation.
So which cooking terms are commonly mispronounced?
Or pronounced radically differently in different regions, i...
it falls literally in the same category but its closed because it isn't constructive as a reference to other users in reference to this site
and specifically aaronut's comment: I'm not sure how this is constructive; the "false friends" question is meant to help members and contributors here understand how to interpret other people's posts (and know how their own posts might be interpreted). What's the benefit of this question considering that pronunciations can be trivially looked up in any dictionary?
I dont know, maybe im just stirring up something that isn't really a problem.
But of course, when those two exist on the main site, more users might ask similar but note constructive to the site questions like the one that was closed
So literally, i think @rumtscho is the glue that keeps everything running in this chatroom. This room is dead this week and it seems the main missing component is @rumtscho. Hurry back. This chatroom is my main entertainment during work :(
but i like coming in here once in a while and saying inappropriate things :)
So something entertaining... well i was in the bathroom earlier and i saw this guy coming out of the bathroom from taking a shit and he didn't wash his hands.
I've been experimenting more and more with "natural" food colorings - meaning spices and other ingredients that naturally impart color as opposed to a commercial food dye made specifically for this purpose.
For example, I've let scallops (among other things) sit in a beet puree, and they get a b...
@Jay well, since you're not a cheese as far as we know, eating your cheese-baby would not be cannibalism. So it'd be OK. Just make sure you get the bonus first.
@rfusca well, let's make a test room, and we can see what happens. You could even use your mod powers to summon him to the test room, only to kick him.
Or, I guess, someone could just check if its documented somewhere, but that'd be boring.
Kicking in chat is pretty useless and/or pointless. Everything that happens when you are kicked is, you are sent to the room list. There's no kick message, no "kicked by" message, no kick reason, nothing. For all a user knows, it's either a transient bug or a network hiccup. How is that useful?
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Wow, wonder how long it'd take for all of us to be banned if we just started creating tens of rooms arguing over where Jay is on the lame-awesome scale
We bought some pizza bases the other day and I just realized the package says to store below 4°C (39°F). We didn't store them in the fridge. Will these be safe to eat?
They contain wheat flour and yeast.
There are several existing questions that is on the edge of being off-topic but is kepted around because it is constructive in helping clear up other questions which is ambiguous due to a language block between different countries. Specifically I am referring to:
What international cooking term...
