Dialectual differences...

[Mangrove]

Suu - I think 'cabinet' is a Rhode Island thing. Mrs Mang has been in CT for pretty much forever and had never heard of it when a Rhode Island friend of ours mentioned it.

And yes - 'cabinet' is a really stupid word for a milkshake.



(Incidentally, did you get my PM from about a month ago when you asked me about my art idea?)

[Suu]

Suu - I think 'cabinet' is a Rhode Island thing. Mrs Mang has been in CT for pretty much forever and had never heard of it when a Rhode Island friend of ours mentioned it.

And yes - 'cabinet' is a really stupid word for a milkshake.



(Incidentally, did you get my PM from about a month ago when you asked me about my art idea?)

(Yes I did, will be in touch. Just been CRAZAY with moving and such.)

[Suu]

I once had a ridiculous argument with someone who assured me that Italians had mastered the tomato in the Middle Ages. It made the baby Scappi cry.

Wut.

Tomatoes are nightshades. They were considered poisonous. The earliest sign of Italian recipes using tomatoes isn't until the 1500s and it's Venetian and essentially just stewed tomatoes. Please tell me this person was not a SCAdian. I'm not even a cook and I know that.

BUT SUU!!!! THEY HAVE AN ITALIAN SOUNDING LAST NAME!!!!!!

So do I. And so does my late period persona. They didn't eat tomatoes or eggplant (the Ottomans did though.). End of story.

[Mangrove]

Suu - I think 'cabinet' is a Rhode Island thing. Mrs Mang has been in CT for pretty much forever and had never heard of it when a Rhode Island friend of ours mentioned it.

And yes - 'cabinet' is a really stupid word for a milkshake.



(Incidentally, did you get my PM from about a month ago when you asked me about my art idea?)

(Yes I did, will be in touch. Just been CRAZAY with moving and such.)

Cool 

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I once had a ridiculous argument with someone who assured me that Italians had mastered the tomato in the Middle Ages. It made the baby Scappi cry.

Wut.

Tomatoes are nightshades. They were considered poisonous. The earliest sign of Italian recipes using tomatoes isn't until the 1500s and it's Venetian and essentially just stewed tomatoes. Please tell me this person was not a SCAdian. I'm not even a cook and I know that.

BUT SUU!!!! THEY HAVE AN ITALIAN SOUNDING LAST NAME!!!!!!

So do I. And so does my late period persona. They didn't eat tomatoes or eggplant (the Ottomans did though.). End of story.

Also, I have learned from Italians that tomato sauce should be cooked gently and still taste fresh when served, not cooked for 10 hours until it resembles the acid bath that gave the Joker his smile.

[hooplala]

Besides it's more than just lips and assholes.
It's also snout, feet, ears, tails and eyes.

Squid- still won't eat it. I don't like the texture.


Aso- SODA IS NOT POP

I believe I am the only Canadian alive that calls it "soda".  Prove me wrong.

[hooplala]

Also, why do Americans look at me so funny when I pronounce Publix as "pube-licks"?

[East Coast Hustle]

Let's go back to New England for a sec.

Doughboys.



Don't you mean ELEPHANT EARS?!

It's called "fried dough".

[East Coast Hustle]

Also: quahog.

A quahog is a goddamn chowder clam everywhere else on the fucking Eastern Seaboard but in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. It's also NOT a city, as Seth McFarlane has led you to believe.

Steamer. It's called a steamer clam.

And they suck for chowder. We use cherrystones.

[Luna]

Let's go back to New England for a sec.

Doughboys.



Don't you mean ELEPHANT EARS?!

It's called "fried dough".

I'm with RCH on this one.  "Fried dough."

And the shit New Englanders will put on them is revolting.  Gimme some powdered sugar, some cinnamon, and I'm good. 

[East Coast Hustle]

Manhattan is tolerable if you WANT the tomatoes, but New England is the way to go.

Manhattan is tolerable if you WANT the tomatoes...

Manhattan is tolerable

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WHY THE FUCK DO YOU PEOPLE IN NEW ENGLAND NOT CALL ANYTHING BY WTF IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE?!

I SHOULD NOT GET FUNNY LOOKS WHEN I SAY "DRESSER" GODDAMNIT. NO, IT'S NOT A BUREAU, A BUREAU IS A DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT. A GODDAMN DRESSER IS WHAT YOU PUT FUCKING CLOTHES IN. IDIOTS.

ALSO. THIS IS AMERICA GODDAMNIT, THAT WORD YOU HAVE FOR YOUR DAD'S SISTER IS PRONOUNCED ANT LIKE THE BUG, NOT LIKE YOU'RE PRETENDING TO BE FROM FUCKING ENGLAND.

THIS IS NOT ENGLAND. THIS IS NEW ENGLAND.

YOU PUT YOUR GROCERIES AND DISHES IN A CABINET, IT'S NOT A FUCKING MILKSHAKE.
A WATER FOUNTAIN. FOR FUCK'S SAKE CALL IT A GODDAMN WATER FOUNTAIN!
A GRINDER? WHAT ARE YOU GRINDING? NOTHING! IT'S A SUBMARINE SANDWICH! DON'T LOOK AT ME THAT WAY, NEW YORK, KEEP YOUR HEROES TO YOURSELF. IT'S A FUCKING SUB!

MILK GOES IN COFFEE, COFFEE SYRUP DOES NOT GO IN MILK. IT'S FUCKING DISGUSTING.





AND FOR FUCK'S SAKE PIZZA IS NOT TO BE SERVED COLD AND CHEESELESS. YOU FUCKING IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!


That is all.

-Suu
Ya'll are mad fuckin crazy, yo.

Alright, fine then.

Here is the new dialectic, more forthcoming as you all send me your colloquialisms to be translated, quantified, typified, number-crunched, compacted, unpacked, and otherwise reworked to be more efficient. These will all be changed over and take effect as of the next fiscal year. Please prepare accordingly as those found still using previous nomenclature will be summarily totemized.

1. CABINET= N speculatively upright utilitarian holding cell, or SUUHC, after translation pronounced SUCK. use: "put the dishes in the suck."
2. MILKSHAKE= N. lactose based sugar beverage, or LB SB, after translation pronounced POUNDESSBEA. Use: "Jerry, there's too many flies in the poundessbea machine, call the manager."
3. WATER FOUNTAIN=  N. water dispensing spigot cover, or WDSC, after translation pronounced WETSK. Use: "The wetsk is broken, how are the beer taps looking? don't cut your gums up too bad on them."
4. GRINDER: N. auto meat rendering slicing and dicing interior contraption, or AMRSDIC, after translation pronounced AMOROUSDICK. Use: "Bring your amorousdick in here, we need to cut up a head cheese."


THAT IS ALL!

REMEMBER: ALL THOSE FOUND USING PREVIOUS TERMS ARE SUBJECTED TO SUMMARY TOTEMIZATION!

[navkat]

Ya know what pisses me off? American "Italian" Food... specifically all the people with a Hollywood gangster sounding last name that believes one should stew tomatoes for 10 hours because that's the "traditional" Italian style. How about all that "Italian" Pizza... Really? Your great great great grandma in Sicily made Deep Dish Pizza in the 1800's before your family came over on the boat? You sure she wasn't your Great Grandma in Chicago during the Depression? And what the fuck are you still talking about that boat for?!

I mean, FFS I don't care if you want to identify with the genetics of three or four generations ago, but at least try to get the food right... if you're gonna claim it as anything close to 'ethnic'. It's like a Mexican making food from Taco Bell and telling me its an old family recipe, something no self respecting Mexican would do (and I am told by my Puerto Rican friends that Mexicans have no self respect*). Either way, they STILL aren't about to hand me a Gordita and tell me its their Great Great Aunts recipe!!!


*My Mexican friends say other things about the Puerto Ricans...

Shows how little I know about my own ethnicity then. The only fantastic family meal I know how to make is the all-day meat sauce.

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NEVER FORGET WHO IS THE BOSS OF YOU!

I AM THE BOSS OF YOU!

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Ya know what pisses me off? American "Italian" Food... specifically all the people with a Hollywood gangster sounding last name that believes one should stew tomatoes for 10 hours because that's the "traditional" Italian style. How about all that "Italian" Pizza... Really? Your great great great grandma in Sicily made Deep Dish Pizza in the 1800's before your family came over on the boat? You sure she wasn't your Great Grandma in Chicago during the Depression? And what the fuck are you still talking about that boat for?!

I mean, FFS I don't care if you want to identify with the genetics of three or four generations ago, but at least try to get the food right... if you're gonna claim it as anything close to 'ethnic'. It's like a Mexican making food from Taco Bell and telling me its an old family recipe, something no self respecting Mexican would do (and I am told by my Puerto Rican friends that Mexicans have no self respect*). Either way, they STILL aren't about to hand me a Gordita and tell me its their Great Great Aunts recipe!!!


*My Mexican friends say other things about the Puerto Ricans...

Shows how little I know about my own ethnicity then. The only fantastic family meal I know how to make is the all-day meat sauce.

That is ethnic, Italian-American from the early 1900's.