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Do not ever speak ill of poutine again.meidei wrote:Poutine with icing is probably better?
mōdgethanc wrote:I'm pretty sure the entire part of the world that celebrates Christmas can agree that whatever other differences we may have, fruitcake is completely awful.
mōdgethanc wrote:Do not ever speak ill of poutine again.meidei wrote:Poutine with icing is probably better?
When did I ever say it was? meidei said Christmas pudding is awful; I simply mentioned another Christmas food many people think is awful.linguoboy wrote:Christmas pudding is not fruitcake.
I want to believe you, but I'm skeptical. However, I believe in keeping an open mind, so if I ever have fruitcake I like, I'll buy you a Coke sangria.I'm not saying this to be contrary; I used to hate fruitcake, too, but it turned out that (as with beer and beef), I'd simply had shitty fruitcake growing up. Good fruitcake is difficult to find and I'll never like as much as, say, Stollen or gingerbread, but it doesn't deserve its ill reputation any more than haggis does.
Seize = grab, take hold of.Johanna wrote:Also, Coke seizes ceases to be the most sold beverage in December, losing the number one spot to julmust
Johanna wrote:Luckily both Christmas pudding and fruitcake are unheard of here, neither sound that appealing to me.
mōdgethanc wrote:Johanna wrote:Also, Coke [corrected] to be the most sold beverage in December, losing the number one spot to julmust
Seize = grab, take hold of.
linguoboy wrote:Johanna wrote:Luckily both Christmas pudding and fruitcake are unheard of here, neither sound that appealing to me.
Perhaps if they incorporated small oily fish in some fashion.
No, "ceases" is /ˈsiːsɪz/.Johanna wrote:Or... they do both have a /z/ in the middle, right?
Johanna wrote:Thinking of pickled herring?
I say "cease" with a /s/, but maybe other people say it with a /z/. There are other words that vary like that.Johanna wrote:Meh, really stupid typo
Or... they do both have a /z/ in the middle, right?
My total inability to tell the difference between /yː/ and /ʉ̟ː/ in your language makes me rather forgiving of things like this.And even if they don't, it was still a typo, since for me [z] is just an allophone of /s/. I usually manage to pronounce them correctly though.
linguoboy wrote:Johanna wrote:Thinking of pickled herring?
Or anchovies or sprats or lye-treated whitefish or whatever else makes a Scandinavian's mouth water.
Johanna wrote:linguoboy wrote:Johanna wrote:Thinking of pickled herring?
Or anchovies or sprats or lye-treated whitefish or whatever else makes a Scandinavian's mouth water.
Anchovies? nah, don't think i've ever had that. Besides, the word looks French.
linguoboy wrote:Hoogstwaarschijnlijk wrote:I think they're becoming more popular here, I also got one myself. They're cheaper, you can re-use them and they're considered to be better for the environment than killing a tree each year.
The thing is, those trees are raised to be killed. It's like with paper: People like to talk about how they're "saving trees" when over 90% of the trees used to produce pulp were planted explicitly for that purpose. If you use less paper (or buy fewer real Christmas trees), they'll just plant fewer, which is hard to spin as a net win for environmentalism.
linguoboy wrote:For serious? Every recipe I've read for Janssons frestelse calls for "ansjovis". (Although now that I look at the Wikipedia article, I see that "ansjovis" is actually made from sprats [skarpsill--so that explains why you associate it with herring] and what we call "anchovies" are known in Swedish as sardell.)
linguoboy wrote:mōdgethanc wrote:I'm pretty sure the entire part of the world that celebrates Christmas can agree that whatever other differences we may have, fruitcake is completely awful.
1. Christmas pudding is not fruitcake.
2. Fruitcake is not awful.
I'm not saying this to be contrary; I used to hate fruitcake, too, but it turned out that (as with beer and beef), I'd simply had shitty fruitcake growing up. Good fruitcake is difficult to find and I'll never like as much as, say, Stollen or gingerbread, but it doesn't deserve its ill reputation any more than haggis does.
mōdgethanc wrote:I want to believe you, but I'm skeptical. However, I believe in keeping an open mind, so if I ever have fruitcake I like, I'll buy you a Coke sangria.I'm not saying this to be contrary; I used to hate fruitcake, too, but it turned out that (as with beer and beef), I'd simply had shitty fruitcake growing up. Good fruitcake is difficult to find and I'll never like as much as, say, Stollen or gingerbread, but it doesn't deserve its ill reputation any more than haggis does.
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