@alphabet atap is also a verb, as in “tap a keg.” But the point of tap water is to let a waiter know that you don’t want “mineral” water or “sparkling” water, or Perrier or whatever, which come out of a bottle and therefore incur an extra charge.
The following sentence is written on a sign at the entrance of a school:
Explore the world through here, becoming lifelong learners.
Is this sentence grammatically correct?
The phrase "through here" sounds awkward to me. Also, it seems that "becoming" modifies "explore"; I'm not sure if a gerun...
@CowperKettle Use two pencils. Rest one pencil on the tooth at 12 o' clock. Rest the other at 9. Then, counting, tap ever other tooth until you reach the 12, and multiply by 8.
> The marzipan-scented liana, a woody, long-stemmed vine named Keita deniseae was collected in the Boyboyba forest of Guinea, where the plant climbs into the canopy with strange, hooked structures and bears large, edible fruit.
@jlliagre Yes, the purple I would never have guessed. Got the blue and orange right away, but the keg, barrel, and tap made me fixated on how beer is dispensed from.
All those food were new to me when I came to America starting with the university cafetaria food, almost all of which I enjoyed. Though I now prefer pulled pork over sloppy joe or fetuccini alfredo over mac and cheese, I still cannot let go of the humble meat loaf and fish & chips.
@Vikas I'm not in the loop. Did he boast earlier that Ukraine can drive off Russia on their own? Because that would be a very empty boast and everyone would know it.
@M.A.R. I don't remember about driving off, but he made many statements that they will take back everything. Most importantly, he said something like we'll not give up territory.
@M.A.R. I said a lot of no's to things. Lobster on grits? You're ruining the grits! Gold leaf on ice? Not even on lemon ice? What kind of messed up diet of 0 calories is that?
@M.A.R. Me too, although I'm still trying to enjoy sashimi & oyster more but when given an option I would probably opt for more mainstream American food.
@Mitch I bet some of those upper class people would rather enjoy sloppy joe in their closet once they got home pretending among their peers that they love caviar.
@GratefulDisciple My mom made sloppy joes for us every so often as kids (I felt like it was a new thing for everybody at the time). It seemed like a lot of trouble to make -and- to eat...it just falls out of the bun.And the taste... pretty much a hamburger maybe spicier? Then just get a hamburger.
Pulled pork (which is a recent thing for me (past decade?)) is awesome though. Or is that just the modern name for BBQ? COuldn't stand BBQ as a kid now it's great.
Oh dang... that's one of those foods I would -like- to eat, but when I see it on a menu I have to say t myself 'Nope, not good for you'
@Mitch To me each of the 3 has their own attraction; for sloppy joe I like the mixing of ground beef and the spices in the sauce. Though hamburger is also ground beef, but the meat (not the sauce) predominates.
@GratefulDisciple I went to a Lebanese restaurant many years ago and they had a 'many appetizers' thing. I'm pretty sure there's a name for it, like there is for the Korean version.
@Mitch Tim Horton doesn't offer platters, only breakfast sandwiches and breakfast wraps. They don't have pancakes / waffles / omelets either (like IHOP / Denny's).
@Mitch Wow, in Jeolla they really spread them out (see picture).
The Indonesian version (although the small plates are actually main course, not appetizer) are the small plates served in Padang style restaurants, such as here. Like Banchan, they are eaten family style.
@Mitch meze reminds me of Greek "buffet" style restaurant where you can make your own "salad" (one trip only) from their dozens of options into something shown in that picture.
@MetaEd Ahh. No, that is not it. Although Autohotkey is involved in the code; it can be generated on my computer. But Autohotkey itself is not what caused the site not to accept the code.
@Mitch Maybe so, or at least in that place they structure it like that to make it familiar to Americans. I like several "salad bar" places that offer many meat options. One Sizzler place I went even include building your own tacos.
@GratefulDisciple I used to like this one Wendy's where they had a 'build your own baked potato bar', where the obvious choice is to choose everything.
@GratefulDisciple Ooh I know another sort of one... an Israeli falafel bar. I mean a couple falafel in a pita is OK but at a falafel stand in israeli they give you a buffet of toppings. Sort of like Doner Kebab but with falafel instead of gyros, and you get to ladel on the extras instead of just getting a big wallop of just lettuce.
a hamburger is a sandwich. Even if you fail to cut completely through the roll, it's still a sandwich. In exactly the same way, a hotdog is a sandwich, whether or not you cut completely through the roll.
@MetaEd Oh sure, but then you're saying a taco is a sandwich and, separately, a doner kebab/gyro is a sandwich?
@MetaEd if you toast only one side of the bread. Which of course is absurd and your beautiful cathedral of crystals shatters into a pile of sand which quickly blows away in the wind of logic.
So an ice cream cone is like a tostada/open-faced sandwich because the supporting bread structure is cooked uniformly throughout (includes waffle cones, even if chocolate dipped).
Wait... is this the food cube? but then topology would only differentiate four kinds: - the one sided (equivalent to the taco, hotdog, and bowl) - two sided (the sandwich, hamburger, I'll throw lasagna here anyway) - the open ended tube (vietnamese eggroll, donut, bagel) - the entirely enclosed cube (wontons, empanadas, ravioli, pierogi, sausages. also burritos and eggrolls)
The other kinds with three sides or four sides collapse topologically to the single side.
@alphabet Obviously I have been underestimating raccoon's intelligence, savviness, and bravery. As a human I wouldn't want to stand in a drive through like that and risk being hit by inattentive and hungry driver.
speaking as someone well on their way to vegan eating, currently eating only milk and cheese, I'd like to eat many of the choices, and I'd also like to not eat many of the same choices.
And it has been true for ages, in the past more so because the upper classes would have much contact with the lower classes, since they has personnel and needed to talk to everyone.
Does 'mac and cheese' contain starches besides the pasta, by the way?
Oh, I see it does.
Yeah that doesn't sound great to me.
> his brother, whom he had left in charge in Egypt, invited him and his sons to a banquet and then piled wood around the house and set it on fire.
[2] When Sesostris was aware of this, he at once consulted his wife, whom (it was said) he had with him; and she advised him to lay two of his six sons on the fire and make a bridge over the burning so that they could walk over the bodies of the two and escape. This Sesostris did; two of his sons were thus burnt but the rest escaped alive with their father.
@Robusto One complaint about tacos (yes it would be wonderful if you pass this on to the committee) is that... well... they don't work. They're supposed to allow to eat some mess with your hands, but almost always the mess seeps through or spills out and you have to clean up afterwards.
Some of the climate change charts are cool, while giving the impact of the data reasonably. Like a circular chart by month, and the line of average temp spirals around, and you can see thatfor the past couple decades the line is always bigger and bigger.
@Cerberus The calendar circle makes sense for anything that is cyclic on a fixed cycle (like weather over a calendar year or traffic on a highway by day of week or time of day).
@Cerberus yes. it's almost like putting fake interpolating points that aren't there.
But sometimes a value at a point in time is a summary of the whole period (eg number of sales in a month) as opposed to temperature recorded on the first of every month.
I think I could see some justification for interpolating lines sometimes. And even colored areas below. But yes I agree that in general those add nothing.
Something interesting. One of the studies they cite asks participants about preferences for stereotypically highbrow and lowbrow foods. But instead of asking what foods the participants personally liked, they asked what foods the participants would want served at a party they were hosting.
@Cerberus Is this paragraph-long meaning accurate, which emphasizes the angle of "allowing you to get a good grasp of the whole situation with a single glance" (my paraphrase)? That's certainly more than saying "clear" in English. I had an Italian colleague whose command of English is not that good, but who liked to say "clear" after I presented a good diagram to communicate the complexities of the data flow, for example.
@Cerberus Rather: it tells you which foods will, if served at a party, make the party's host seem high-status, or at least avoid making them seem low-status.
At a party, you want to serve food that people like. But you also want to serve food that makes people see you as refined, or at least as not-unrefined.
@Cerberus Recalling those situations, I would use a different word such as "I got it" or "It makes sense" or "I have no more questions" or "I now see the challenge".
@Cerberus Surely this happens across cultures? I mean, hot dogs are delicious, but if I ever had the misfortune to be hosting a dinner party, I'd serve something classier instead, even if I knew everyone there liked hot dogs also.
@Cerberus Have you seen the TV Series Frasier? Those brothers are somewhat obsessed with status in comical contrast with their dad who don't give a d***, just eating and doing what he likes with his buddies. So it really depends on the group of people you're with.
@alphabet Seems it really has to do with one's social aspiration, whether as a guest or as a party host. Deep down, people want to belong. The question is: which class?
@alphabet For a party host, certainly. For guest I probably need to play a part if I want to enter a higher social class. Miss Bingley from Pride and Prejudice is a social climber and is reprimanded by Mr. Darcy who saw through her.
@alphabet Agreed. As with many things in life, I'm afraid it's quite easy to ruin good social capital that one has built over the years. Looks like the only real safe preserver of a social class is money. If you have it, then you can afford to make mistakes. Maybe real (but rare and valuable) skills is another preserver too.
@Cerberus Yeah, on second reading, I take back what I say. It's way too overgeneralizing. I forgot many other factors, not to mention cultural, emotional bonds, religious / political values, group interests, etc. Humans are complex and many factors are beyond our control.
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