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Post by mickthecactus on May 23, 2023 16:09:57 GMT
Words fail me.....
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Post by whatagain on May 23, 2023 19:12:34 GMT
An interesting use of English …
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Post by tod2 on May 25, 2023 16:02:21 GMT
Whatagain - Why are so many translations made in pathetically bad English. Surely Google is here to help?
Please Kerouac - translate for us correctly...
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Post by kerouac2 on May 25, 2023 16:09:58 GMT
"You will burn (grill) with impatience to cook for your friends."
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Post by bjd on May 25, 2023 19:17:40 GMT
I wouldn't count on google translate for a professional job, but any company should get their advertising checked before printing it.
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Post by whatagain on May 25, 2023 20:42:37 GMT
The best translation i ever heard of was 'growings' for breakfast. Crescent... croissant - croitre - to grow...
But as for not trying to validate a translation... in Belgium some are unablecto translate from Flemish to French or vice versa. Like yhey knew nobody on the order side of the language border...
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Post by whatagain on May 25, 2023 20:45:05 GMT
As blah blah, i feel like Droopy.
You know what ? I am happy...
After hitting a deep low, i am feeling good. I refrain from feeling too high - not good either.
But i do feel good.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 25, 2023 20:51:19 GMT
Many menus in Chinese restaurants used to have "fungus" on the menu instead of "mushrooms."
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Post by patricklondon on May 26, 2023 5:15:42 GMT
There is much cross-lingual fun to be had from attempts to translate food terms: bric becomes brick (am I right in thinking it's like filo pastry, which case brick is hardly the word you want), and there's that ?bean dish that turns up as "foul madames". Once, in Crete, I saw a menu offering Fried Squits. My blog | My photos | My video clips | My Librivox recordings"too literate to be spam"
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2023 5:25:02 GMT
You've got me there. What on earth is that? And yes, "feuille de bric" is like filo pastry but a bit thicker.
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Post by onlyMark on May 26, 2023 5:59:40 GMT
bjd, always a problem writing/translating from Arabic to get the letters right in our way of writing. Foul madames is ful medames/fūl mudammas/ful mudammas and foule mudammes. "...a stew of cooked fava beans served with olive oil, cumin, and optionally with chopped parsley, garlic, onion, lemon juice, chili pepper, and other vegetable, herb, and spice ingredients." I used to eat it a couple of times a week when in Egypt.
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2023 6:22:22 GMT
Thanks, Mark. Ful actually crossed my mind but I didn't get the madames. My husband told me about eating ful when he was in Lebanon -- greasy and filling in the Beirut version.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2023 8:44:09 GMT
I have a few cans of foul in my cupboard, imported from the UAE.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:26:25 GMT
I am going to ask my son if they were introduced to foul last week when in Dubai. They did splash out on a Desert Banquet ....the touristy thing to do. The rest of the time photos of the food looked really nice and to make me drool even more they sent me a photo of Wagamama's. Only ever been to the two branches in London but Im sure there are dozens more now. They may have had Foul at the Mina Souk where they were going to eat traditional food at an Arabian Tea House.
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 14:29:20 GMT
Whatagain - It is so nice to hear your 'Happy Voice"! Keep sending us anecdotes of your life and I can tell you find cooking a way to relax. Men do make the best cooks.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 26, 2023 15:09:29 GMT
Men do make the best cooks. Traitoress! Not saying that some men are not great cooks, but sheesh!
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Post by tod2 on May 26, 2023 16:09:41 GMT
Forgive me Bixa but I do believe that the great chefs of this world are not only men, but French to boot! Have you watched Jean-Pierre on You Tube? He is my second choice for a husband. MAN! Can that guy cook. He has taught me the "Mise en Place" method which I was coming into as a housewife/cook some years ago.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2023 16:44:16 GMT
There has long been the hypothesis that men are better chefs because they dare to innovate no matter what. This is probably true but also a bit disturbing because it implies that women risk consequences (punishment?) if they mess up.
I would dare to say, however, that (most) men have turned over the cooking duties to women for various reasons including 1) they are lazy, like to be served and will eat most things even if they are mediocre and 2) they like to give orders and be in charge.
Obviously there are also other factors
And of course, I know plenty of people, including my brother, who have always done the cooking at home because their spouses were incompetent or at least not very skilled or motivated in the kitchen.
It is one of the elements on which to keep an eye as we slowly advance towards gender equality.
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Post by bjd on May 26, 2023 18:09:01 GMT
So you get a few men who become famous for cooking, but all over the world for centuries, women have been cooking every day and getting little to no credit for it. There are a few women chefs in France but running a restaurant is tough since you work every evening, while there are things to do at home, take care of kids and do all the things that most men do not do.
We have neighbours who moved in two and a half years ago. She told me he does most of the cooking now because for years, whenever they went anywhere he would say "I can do better than that" at restaurants or at others' houses. She got fed up and said, "If you can do better, do it." and she never cooks any more.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 26, 2023 18:20:31 GMT
Good for her.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 26, 2023 18:33:58 GMT
Come on tod. No way are the only great chefs French men. I’ve no doubt they are very good but some of our Indian chefs are amazing.
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Post by bjd on May 27, 2023 6:56:13 GMT
Citing the leaked files, the newspaper also reported about large numbers of customer complaints regarding the Tesla’s driver assistance programs, with about 4,000 complaints on sudden acceleration or phantom braking.
Just wait until Elon Musks's company finds some human volunteers to have his microchips implanted in their brains.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2023 15:21:07 GMT
Just wait until Elon Musks's company finds some human volunteers to have his microchips implanted in their brains. We should probably assume that has already happened. So you get a few men who become famous for cooking, but all over the world for centuries, women have been cooking every day and getting little to no credit for it. There are a few women chefs in France but running a restaurant is tough since you work every evening, while there are things to do at home, take care of kids and do all the things that most men do not do. Hear! Hear! And of course those women turning out meals at home are often creating them from within a budget, or with what's growing in the backyard or whatever is left in the pantry at the end of a pay cycle. And even in the middle class bracket, there is no staff to bring in the daily supply of the best and freshest ingredients or to do the behind the scenes grunt work that is done for "real" chefs.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 27, 2023 16:30:00 GMT
As long as women continue to perpetuate this system, things will not change.
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Post by onlyMark on May 27, 2023 16:54:55 GMT
I think the difference between men and women chefs is nothing to do with talent and more to do with the peripheral/social reasons like opportunity and equality. The only thing a man can do better than a woman when she is given the chance is lift heavy weights.
I can say that in our family I am the boss and I have my wife's permission to say so.
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Post by tod2 on May 28, 2023 14:05:56 GMT
When I declared that men make the greatest chefs I was definitely referring to the Chefs in restaurants and hotels who's genius has made them noticed. I definitely change my opinion when it comes to home cooks - not chefs - as the custom in ages past put the woman in charge of the home cauldron.... Things are changing quite rapidly with Home Husbands so let's see how they take to critism from the little woman when she comes home hungry.
I have always cooked our meals. I come from a family where my mother cooked BUT so did my father at times. Not full blown meals delivered to the table but dishes like chicken and corn bread made with fresh picked snow white corn minced into a dough. My husband never went near a cooking pot until I went to Australia for 6 weeks. Now he can put a roast in the oven. BBq all our outdoor meals .....yes, that's it.
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Post by bjd on May 28, 2023 15:45:58 GMT
Actually, both my sons are better cooks than their wives and do most of the daily cooking.
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Post by kerouac2 on May 28, 2023 15:48:43 GMT
Why are men condemned to the barbecue? It is smelly, dangerous and hot. It sounds like women's work.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 28, 2023 17:12:22 GMT
I’m certainly not better than Mrs Cactus. Just different.
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Post by whatagain on May 28, 2023 21:05:34 GMT
Why are men condemned to the barbecue? It is smelly, dangerous and hot. It sounds like women's work. You mudt watch the french movie 'le barbecue'. It starts with 5-6 guys commenting the cooking of the sausages.
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