la nuit de poubelle/krappenfest!

[bossymarmalade]

According to my recent poll, most of my friendslist would happily dwell on a planet with flying dingoes. And most of you are charmingly content with your eye colours! You are the best friendslist EVER.

Now, for explanations:

Gaines*burgers: These were weird dog-food things that looked nominally like raw hamburger patties; you were supposed to break them up with your hands and feed them to your dog. I never saw one for real, but I have a vivid memory of the commercials.

char siu bao: in Trinidad we called them "pow", but this is the proper name. Scrumptious Chinese sweetish buns filled with roast red pork; sometimes if they're steamed they look like this. MMMMMMMM.

sapodilla: a tropical fruit with a very soft, sugary flesh that tastes sort of like apple, pear, and cinnamon.

gotterdammerung: another word for Ragnarok, or the end of the world in Norse mythology.

divali: some of you might know it as 'diwali' or 'deepavali'; it's the Hindu festival of lights.

lefse: A delicious Norwegian potato flatbread, yum!

edamame: edible green soybeans, usually served as an appetizer at Japanese restaurants.

poutine: you CANNOT be Canadian and not have had poutine. It's handcut french fries covered with a thick dark chicken gravy and fresh white cheddar cheese curds, and it is SO GOOD. I wish I had one right *now*.

curanderismo: a Latin American form of folk healing that uses both magical techniques and Catholic icons.

puttanesca: one in the Italian naming tradition of sauces (marinara = sailors' sauce, carbonara = coal sellers' sauce) -- this one is "whores' sauce".

hraka: all of you who are fans of the book "Watership Down" got this one. For the rest of you, don't feel bad -- it's a made-up word in rabbit-language. It means 'shit'. *g*

Thank you for participating, my friendslist full of Michael Novotnys!!

Comments

[indirajames.livejournal.com]

I totally knew what edamames were, why did I say I didn't? You tricked me! Somehow!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I totally did trick you! Your best is an idiot!!!

[prettypinkkitty.livejournal.com]

OH....sapodilla is sapotta? I should have known! My grandmother LOVES those.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

*g* Every time I do this I consider putting in all the other names for these things, but then I figure no matter what I'd be leaving something out. But yes! I think they're the same thing. To be honest, I never cared for them, heh.

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

ohhh, pork buns! I love pork buns! I just call them by their white people name. *g*

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

ahahahah! I actually think that the BBQ pork buns are slightly different from hardcore bao, but they come in so many shapes and sizes! And are DELICIOUS in all incarnations. I wish I was eating one RIGHT NOW!!

[carta.livejournal.com]

hoi, hoi, hraka vair. . .

I love Watership Down.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

One of my favouritest books from childhood EVER!

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

ALSO OMG WHO *TOUCHES* DOG FOOD??? GAH. I think that is a *poor business model*!!!

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! Yes, but they were way, way popular--they were the dog food to get for your dog, if you really cared about your dog.

On the other hand, they were about the consistency of Tender Vittles, if you remember those--looked like raw beef, but much drier. Um, almost like PlayDoh, really. So the gross factor was pretty low. Probably the nutrition factor was pretty low, for the dog, but that was the era of Betty Crocker, and lots of white food--our ideas of good nutrition were not exactly founded in science.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

SO DISGUSTING. I don't even care if it's dry, the SMELL still gets on your hands! Ick!!

[cathybites.livejournal.com]

And most of you are charmingly content with your eye colours!

or maybe we just wanted an excuse to yell 'BITCH' at you. :P

...

...I'm just gonna sit here and stare at your icon.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

You people are always looking for an excuse to yell 'bitch' at me!!

(my icon is staring back. hee!)

[kaffy-smaffy.livejournal.com]

Pork buns! I know what they are! But I only call them pork buns or the Vietnamese name for it. When it comes to Yum Cha, I just point and nod since I'm pants at Chinese.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

ahahah! We mostly point at the carts too. Fortunately we've been going to the same dim sum restaurant for something like ten or twelve years, so they know us pretty well by now. *g*

[chrismm.livejournal.com]

I wondered, about the bao. I know it as hom bao, but I wasn't sure it was the same. Hom bao is probably an American bastardization of both the food and the name. Though the hom bao we get at dim sum looks just like char siu bao.

And dude, I work for the opera, so gotterdammerung is not exactly new to me. Though I knew even when I was a little kid, thanks to my dad's love for classical music, and the fact that he owned, well, sort of this album, (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000027JD/qid=1132721050/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-6891419-1755904?v=glance&s=classical) wherein Anna Russell explains the Ring operas for non-experts.

Hilariously funny, and she's totally ruined Wagner for me--I giggle through all the emotional parts. Fafner dies, and the audience is crying, and I'm hearing "So Wotan knows the curse is working" in a plummy Boston accent. The soaring love dealie in the middle with Brunhilde and Siegfried, and I'm hearing, "Well, love has certainly taken the ginger out of her." Heh. I had it memorized before I was five. Anna Russell, I mean, not the actual opera.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I think hom bao might be the Vietnamese name for it! Unless that's the kind that's panfried and served with red wine vinegar, because char siu bao is different from that one. Oh, I'm so confused now. *g*

Those Anna Russell records sound *hysterical*, omg! I should totally track one down!

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Hoi, hoi u embleer hrair
M'saion ule hraka vair!

Re: "Welcome to Pimsleur's Speak and Read Essential Lapine 1..."

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Can't even have a decent silflay, honestly.

*g*

[urnesha.livejournal.com]

Damn. I missed the "pow". And how did I miss the "hraka"? I love Watership Down! Damn, now I want a rabbit icon.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I know! I was considering putting 'pow' in the question, but in the end I didn't. mmmmmm, I wish I had one right now! Trinidad-pow is in a class of its own. *g*

[village.livejournal.com]

Of course I already knew all this hours ago. Ahem. *snerk*

[village.livejournal.com]

Oh and did you know that gotterdammerung is also the sinister gothic-noise band from The Netherlands? I didn't think so. One point for me. :P

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

see I was going to say the same thing. BEANS!

cm

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I have cruelly tricked and circumvented you ALL! ahaahhaah!

[star-maple.livejournal.com]

See, I just call it bao, so I wasn't sure if your bao was something different. But there's a Chinese bakery about 2 blocks down from Taz comics and they sold bao for like a quarter (and they were super sweet pork, with pineapple and stuff) and I would go and get like 12 of them as well as the little custard filled ones, because OMG were they ever good.

Man, now I want bao really really bad and there's not a Chinese bakery for miles and miles and I am very sad.

I want bao and poutine for Christmas.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

MMMM. Those custard-filled buns at the Chinese bakeries are SO GOOD! I can't even imagine what I'd do without the option of getting them, you poor creature!

*snuggle*

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

We call sapodillas chikus or dukus around South-East Asia. Unfortunately the only interesting fact I have about them involves BSB's very first visit to Singapore that had a magazine shoot with them matching up names to fruits (they all failed miserably). I should show you to pictures sometime.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

matching up names to fruits (they all failed miserably)

AHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAOMG!! That's the best idea for a magazine interview EVER! I love it. You have links, you say? *g*

[karabou.livejournal.com]

You are so informative! Bravo!

lefse: A delicious Norwegian potato flatbread, yum!

Mmm....

Thank you for participating, my friendslist full of Michael Novotnys!!

Augh.. one of my least favorite characters from anything.. *makes a face*

I have a question for you, my sister in... wackiness. Lammo. Rolling. Have you ever written any due South fic? If so, can you please link me, because I must read it. I swear I thought you had some fic of it, although I might just be thinking of Twin Peaks instead. I worry you haven't seen it because your sister type says she has never seen it and I know you are more or less strange clones of each other, and anyway this baffles me (not the clone thing), because it is about a Canadian mountie. A mountie. And she says it doesn't interest her. Miss Canadian Pride! If there's a cool, funny, slashy show about Canadian pride, why did she not watch it? Or you, if the case may be! Basically, I want to read Ris!DS fic. Right.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

I made lefse a few times. I'm not sure how close it came to tasting authentic, but they were DAMN good!

And no, I have not written DS fic because I have not seen it. I KNOW! Seriously, the trend has been that we are uninterested in anything filmed locally. X-Files, Stargate, Smallville -- only Supernatural is breaking the trend!

We should totally start renting Due South and see what the hubbub is about *g*

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

You cannot seriously find lefse good, can you? Didn't I serve you any of the good Norwegian foods?

I can send some in the mail, if you like. I just heard that someone at the farmer's market just got a new lefse oven that bakes three rounds at a time...three rounds!!!!

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Hey, if she gets some then I do too! (There are special lefse ovens? Weird.)

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

So interesting!
I have learned new things today!

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! I am informative as well as decorative! Go me!

(on a side note? Your icon with the ham on it made me laugh for like ten minutes straight the first time I saw it - for no apparent reason, since I don't know the story behind it or anything. I just know I LOVE IT. ahahahah!)

[rachel-wilder.livejournal.com]

That's right! Personally, I think the thing one should not live without is gjetost...the brown goat cheese. I always have to have it in my house, which reminds me that I have no bread right now...must get bread so I can live on toast this weekend.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

mmmmmm. I feel like gjetost is something that I need to have more of in order to enjoy it, kind of like how I started liking Brie. I should pick some up!

[kaelie.livejournal.com]

Missed the poll, but this morning's icon knocked me a loopy loop. It's the tv show of cheesy boy fun and I love it SOMUCH.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Hee! There is something about it is that is so enticing once you let yourself get into the show; I didn't feel the pull at first, but once I started watching regularly? SAM & DEAN = BEST THING EVA!!