so i was at dinner with a britisher. she ordered a prawn and rocket pizza. when it came, she put ketchup on it. I have pics

if you've not had baba ghanoush then frankly you can't say anything about aubergines

Ratatouille is a type of stew! How have you not heard of that?

I always feel a bit of a fraud posting on food threads as I don't know shit about food and don't really care about it, but considering stews and stew-like soups (or "stewps") are the only thing I can cook I feel like I can speak more assuredly on this matter.

staidinterface

i lump stews, chowders, soups together in my head i guess. i've had ratatouille but always thought it was baked so i never have thought of it as a stew

All of this said, I did once make a Bamia pizza (like a Middle Eastern okra stew, but on a pizza base), so I don't think I can be critical of any food combination. 'Stewp' sounds marketable.

I saw a woman pour ketchup all over her pastrami sandwich in a noted Jewish deli. I found it offensive, and I think a rabbi should rule it traif.

i don't think i've ever encountered the word 'courgette' before today

I would have guessed it meant "little cougar"

phonetically speaking, zucchini might beat courgette, although the endings are problematic for both - zucchini looks like a singularised plural and courgette seems to use the feminine diminutive that so benights the french language

however, nobody on this earth could convince me that 'eggplant' is a more euphonious name than 'aubergine'

courgette is probably a better name than zucchini. aubergine is definitely a better name than eggplant.

lol xp

Totally agree w/ imago (xp and wins!). Though I have no real problem with -ette being appended to things, as opposed to people.

zucchini and egg plant are both the native american names iirc

agree that 'aubergine' as a word is vastly superior to 'eggplant'

white aubergines totally look like eggs tho!

http://www.khiewchanta.com/images/small-white-eggplant.jpg

wow

I have to assume that whoever named them was looking at those and not the common purple ones

round yellow courgettes are even more mindblowing (and really nice)

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/attachments/fruit-vegetable-showcase/31807d1346881803-virtual-show-2012-pair-courgettes-voting-100_0490.jpg

shit that is huge, sorry

i will start using 'zucchino' in penance

I prefer "zucchinus"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgmOs10W4AIG6kg.jpg

thundercrack.gif

for all my bemoaning of the french feminine diminutive i've actually been frightfully androcentric in my assumption of 'zucchino'; it transpires the original was 'zucchina'

no wait the plot has thickened

Zucca is the Italian word for pumpkin/squash and zucchino/zucchina (zucca + ina = little) are diminutive forms, becoming zucchini/zucchine in the plural. Zucchino, the masculine form (zucchini in the plural), is the first form to be documented in writing.[2] An Italian dictionary called lo Zingarelli 2015, Zanichelli Editore, gives both forms, as does the Devoto-Oli published by Le Monnier, but the Accademia della Crusca, the most important research institution on Italian language, defines zucchino as the preferable form.[2] The Treccani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, another highly respected linguistic authority, gives zucchina as the main Italian word, and the masculine form as Tuscan dialect.

got to go with lo zingarelli 2015

/lo italopop zing cru

rolling zingarelli

without this threadbump we'd never have discovered the bitter italian academic war to sex the courgette so thanks dayo basically

"Sex the Courgette" sounds like an obscure Sugarcubes b-side

speaking of which, I've realised that they were cucumbers in thundercrack!

corn chowder is great, pennsylvania dutch classic

I'm still lolling about the picture of the all-too-familiar corn casserole Sufjan G. posted upthread

also this

Spicy corn in a cup is a thing in South Asian neighbourhoods in London and it's only about a pound or £1.50 per serving.

― jedi slimane (suzy), Monday, June 6, 2016 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Despite my terrible joke, I would eat about 500 helpings of spicy corn. One of my go-to "recipes" when I was a kid learning to cook was steamed corn with cracked red peppercorns.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bendertheoffender.jpg?quality=90

TAKE THAT YOU STUPID CORRRNNN

I just eat prawns with the tail on most I the time, unless it's particularly big you can usually just crunch it up. I stop at sucking the juices out the head like someone I know does....

― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, July 14, 2013 4:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

???ppl really eat the shrimp tails? other ppl do this??

A coworker did. He was lactose intolerant and said the tails gave him calcium.

I ate a shrimp head accidentally once (misjudged the teeth/shrimp intersection) and it didn't taste any different than the shrimp body.

I wouldnt care for it but people eat soft shell crab, so *shrug*

If the shrimp have been properly fried, go for it and crunch the shell; otherwise, you may prefer the packaging your carry-out came in.

the juices from the head of the prawn are amazing! certain types of frying make it p easy to eat more of the prawn in its entirety. in spain you see people sucking the shrimp head p much everywhere.

glad dan is presumably in bed as i posted that.

Decided to cook creamed corn tonight. What is it traditionally eaten with in the U.S.A? If it goes wrong, I'll just order a pizza (and put it on that).

i heard it was traditionally eaten with a full seafood paella

in my experience creamed corn is mostly a southern thing so it's typically eaten w/ traditional southern foods.

lol LG

the creamed corn is in the oven. this is not a drill.

have settled on 'whipping post' (fillmore versh) as soundtrack for this occasion

http://i.imgur.com/x5ioowX.jpg

...this is healthy.

hey this ain't so bad