Ohhh, leeks and potatoes I can see.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 14:51 (six years ago) link
White pepper is essential.
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
I made a Leek/Potato/Chick-pea soup the other day, that worked for me. Will try the white pepper next time, my mash is always full of black pepper and an improper amount of salt.
― the 'phet offensive (calzino), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
I like it for Chinese recipes, especially anything with chicken and pork, but it's great for soups and greens dishes too
It's a bit like bay leaves - it's hard to quantify what it does but you can tell when it's missing
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
I hate white pepper so much I never have a problem identifying gruner veltliner in blind tastings because it's one of the possible identifying notes.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 15:31 (six years ago) link
I saw on some clickbait the other day that quartering potatoes isn't best way of making roasties. It recommended slicing them into long diagonal thirds instead, with the main gist of it being - that the more surface area on the potatoes the better. I just tried it earlier and and it is definitely some very sound advice.
― the 'phet offensive (calzino), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
Sounds nice, but aren't you just making chunky potato gratin?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
more like "big slow-cooked chips" really, but there is definitely some good science to it!
― the 'phet offensive (calzino), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
That St. Louis in America is pronounced "Saint Lewis".
― emil.y, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
People do say “Saint Louie” sometimes, but it’s as a joke
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
How do you folks say Louis Armstrong?
― Alba, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
loo-ey, but would probably be otherwise had he not been from new orleans
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Yeah Joe Louis and Louis Brandeis and Louis Sullivan get the terminal S. Louis the Fourteenth and Louis Armstrong don't.
― claude rains down in africa (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
If it's spelt 'Louis' it's always loo-ee to me, unless I've been specifically told otherwise.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
i believe Satchmo always referred to himself as "Lou-ISS," so that's how i say it.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
(I could be wrong!)
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
apparently i was going by his hit single of "Hello, Dolly!"
ban lewis j
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
sort of indeterminate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong#Pronunciation_of_name
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:29 (six years ago) link
not really on the theme of the thread, but a Top Fact in a similar vein is that dionne warwick's real name is dionne warrick, but she changed it after it was misspelled on an early record. that means in the UK her last name is pronounced just like her real name, but because in the US they pronounce the name of the town wrong, they also pronounce her name wrong.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
Ella definitely calls him "Louie" in their recording of "A Fine Romance."
And that settles it for me.
Or, a compromise: his given name was Lew-is; he was often called Lew-ie as a nickname. It makes as much sense as someone whose official name Richard and is nicknamed Richie. Or William nn Willie.
― I'm my own emotional support animal (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:11 (six years ago) link
Louie vs Lucky Louie vs Louis Székely
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:14 (six years ago) link
Velma Middleton calls him Louie on St Louis Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2TUlUwa3_o
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:30 (six years ago) link
Guys there is a reddit version of this thread and it is a gift from the gods: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2yhxa9/what_fact_did_you_learn_at_an_embarrassingly_late/
That the birds and the other animals roaming around Disneyland were not robots ... I was almost starting 9th grade
I always thought I was uncircumcised, because I thought a circumcision meant cutting off the mushroom tip... which I still hadI was 18.
Last year I was in a retro arcade. That day I realised that in Tetris you have to build full rows to destroy the bricks. Till then I thought you just have to hit hard into a gap with a long brick. Always wondered why I was so bad in that game.So that night I was drunk playin' Tetris for hours, because it was such fun.I'm twentyeight years old.
I was a few months away from turning 17 and The Dark Knight was coming out. I checked IMDB to see what actors and characters would be in it, and that's when I learned that Harvey Dent's evil nickname is Two-Face, not Toothpaste as I had always thought. I never saw the name written down, in the animated series half his face was white and the other half was blue, and I just never really questioned it.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
LMFAO @ 'Toothpaste'
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:19 (six years ago) link
didn't the tetris guy notice that lines were being removed even when he wasn't sliding long bricks into gaps?
― koogs, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
man when you're sliding long bricks into gaps, the world fades away
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
from that reddit thread
That est. 19xx actually meant established. I always thought it was estimated because they forgot the exact date and just said the year.
I definitely remember thinking this as a kid and actually thinking it was weird that they only had an approximate year for something that was only 50 years ago or whatever.
― silverfish, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
we rented Tetris for the NES and I remember thinking that the goal was to build a castle or something, because the title screen was the Taj Mahal. I remember getting frustrated that the lines kept going away.
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
this is a good thread
So I saw signs everywhere that said "no littering. $200 fine." I thought it meant "you can't litter. But if you feel like leaving $200, that's fine." And I thought, "who the fuck would do that?" I was probably in fifth grade before the lightbulb went off.
― frogbs, Thursday, 8 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
I wonder if they've learned yet that lightbulbs go on, not off, when you realise something.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
we rented Tetris for the NES and I remember thinking that the goal was to build a castle or something, because the title screen was the Taj Mahal
today you learn that it's St. Basil's Cathedral
― Number None, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
Ha ha.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
i'm going to pull an alba here and suggest that "lightbulb going off" is meant in the same sense that sirens go off, or alarms go off
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
dying @ toothpaste
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
No way can a lightbulb go off like a siren or alarm goes off.
― Alba, Thursday, 8 February 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
Can't remember how old I was, or work out whether it was shockingly old, but there was very much an event that happened, twice, involving the words which seeing written I had thought pronounced 'pinney apple' and 'vee-hi-kyool' and hadn't clocked them with the spoken words
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
misled
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
just now - K9 = canine.
Oh, for pete's sake.
― neutral yogurt (doo dah), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
same as cardamom, I had heard para-dyme and seen paradigm and it took one incident to get schooled
― mh, Friday, 9 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
Wait till you see what my ilx username is!
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
Parahttp://www.hungrydads.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/dig-em.jpg
― Bittersweet Meh (Old Lunch), Friday, 9 February 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
I went so long without knowing that when one of the co-hosts of Polka Dot Door said "Polkaroo was here? I missed him again!" was meant to be a joke
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/27545366_10155494320098869_3311944330077119182_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=0b6ab9894d22602314fb4d718b126163&oe=5AE2611E
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:12 (six years ago) link
I can't remember exactly when I learnt this but for a long time I didn't realise Grant Hart sang songs in Husker Du. I knew he wrote songs but I thought Bob always sang them
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Same
― Evan, Friday, 9 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
pathetic
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
lol
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 9 February 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
i don't get the tongue one
― flappy bird, Saturday, 10 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link
I suppose people didnt think that they were eating somethings actual tongue.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link