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!

[prettypinkkitty.livejournal.com]

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

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

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

[carta.livejournal.com]

hoi, hoi, hraka vair. . .

I love Watership Down.

[lcsbanana.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

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

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[village.livejournal.com]

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

[mumblemutter.livejournal.com]

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

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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!!!!

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

So interesting!
I have learned new things today!

[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.

[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.