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miss maggie ([personal profile] bossymarmalade) wrote2005-11-22 08:34 pm

la nuit de poubelle/krappenfest!

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!!

[identity profile] kaffy-smaffy.livejournal.com 2005-11-23 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[identity profile] bossymarmalade.livejournal.com 2005-11-23 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
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*