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
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
however, nobody on this earth could convince me that 'eggplant' is a more euphonious name than 'aubergine'
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
courgette is probably a better name than zucchini. aubergine is definitely a better name than eggplant.
lol xp
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Totally agree w/ imago (xp and wins!). Though I have no real problem with -ette being appended to things, as opposed to people.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
zucchini and egg plant are both the native american names iirc
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
agree that 'aubergine' as a word is vastly superior to 'eggplant'
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
white aubergines totally look like eggs tho!
http://www.khiewchanta.com/images/small-white-eggplant.jpg
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
wow
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
I have to assume that whoever named them was looking at those and not the common purple ones
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
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
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
shit that is huge, sorry
i will start using 'zucchino' in penance
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
I prefer "zucchinus"
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgmOs10W4AIG6kg.jpg
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
thundercrack.gif
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
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'
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
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.
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
got to go with lo zingarelli 2015
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
/lo italopop zing cru
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
rolling zingarelli
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
without this threadbump we'd never have discovered the bitter italian academic war to sex the courgette so thanks dayo basically
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
"Sex the Courgette" sounds like an obscure Sugarcubes b-side
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
speaking of which, I've realised that they were cucumbers in thundercrack!
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
corn chowder is great, pennsylvania dutch classic
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
I'm still lolling about the picture of the all-too-familiar corn casserole Sufjan G. posted upthread
― every day, be sure you're woke (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
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
― jedi slimane (suzy), Monday, June 6, 2016 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― every day, be sure you're woke (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bendertheoffender.jpg?quality=90
TAKE THAT YOU STUPID CORRRNNN
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
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??
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
I wouldnt care for it but people eat soft shell crab, so *shrug*
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
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.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
glad dan is presumably in bed as i posted that.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
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).
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link
i heard it was traditionally eaten with a full seafood paella
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:46 (seven years ago) link
in my experience creamed corn is mostly a southern thing so it's typically eaten w/ traditional southern foods.
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
lol LG
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
the creamed corn is in the oven. this is not a drill.
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
have settled on 'whipping post' (fillmore versh) as soundtrack for this occasion
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x5ioowX.jpg
...this is healthy.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:06 (seven years ago) link
hey this ain't so bad
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:13 (seven years ago) link
if you like corn
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
Serving suggestion
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
Corn should be eaten off the cob with seasoned butter, popped with oil, or ground up for meal or flour. There is no other acceptable treatment.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
ground into a paste
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
tbh I quite like canned creamed corn heated and put on crispy toast, with a LOT of black pepper.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
But I recall as a child I hated the smell and idea of it so so badly, that I'd hide under my bed covers and whine, whenever dad cooked some up.
My uncle and grandad grew corn for a living, mostly popcorn or feed corn but they did do some sweet corn too. It's not unusual in rural Indiana in late July or August to be able buy sweet corn ears out of the back of a pickup truck pulled on the side of the road that was just picked.
One really good way to cook an ear of corn is to clean it, shuck back the leaves, pull off the silks, then add garlic butter to the corn, pull back the leaves tying it with string and cook the ears on a grill.
It's also good to take fresh corn ears cut the corn off the cob, render a piece of bacon with chopped onion and fry up the corn in an iron skillet. Cook it until the sugar in the corn starts to carmelize and the corn browns up a bit. Fresh corn will still be firm but it will have a very different taste than the canned stuff most people know.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 06:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, frying up fresh corn is very important. I learned that recently. Growing up in Indiana, we had a Corn Roast with extended family every year and grilled them as you describe. Was not uncommon for a few people to eat more than 10 ears of corn each that day.
― Sufjan Grafton, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 06:54 (seven years ago) link
it's always kind of funny to run into someone who's either lived in the city during their entire Midwest life or has recently moved to the corn belt and thinks that all the thousands of acres of corn they drive by in the countryside is sweet corn (the squishy kind you eat with butter or cut off the cob and make one of many dishes).
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link