I still have never learned how to hold a writing instrument 'properly' so I will probably be shockingly old when/if that ever happens. I write longhand constantly with no ill effect, though, which seems to put paid to the entreaties of my frustrated teachers and parents. Nyah.
I can completely relate! I never learned to grip the way you're supposed to with "a writing instrument" so I feel like that probably makes writing a more difficult proposition than it should be, but it's too late for me to break myself of the old habit so if I ever do, it'll probably be when I'm close to death. Also, I attended Catholic schools so I KNOW they paid extra special attention to the way we wrote (hell, we got marks for penmanship all the way through the end of grade school, i.e. until the end of the 8th grade!) and no one bothered to correct me, so I guess I was doing a good enough job as it was.
Anyway, new thing I have only just been corrected on (and this is timely for today): I learned the Irish stepped in to help Mexico out with the Mexican-American war, NOT the war for Mexican independence from Spain as I'd previously thought! I feel like an idiot because I parroted the latter misconception to my Mexican-born aunt a few months back as if it were true and she didn't correct me. I really should have known this because of my late mom's extreme pro-Mexican cheerleading and my late dad's having had an Irish grandmother (which I've already mentioned), but nope, took me THIS long to have had corrected, d'oh!
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 17 March 2019 17:47 (five years ago) link
Playtex made astronaut suits: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-did-playtex-have-to-do-with-neil-armstrong-16588944/#zCMhFpR7AyUEmUBy.99
(which I learned because of this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/science/female-spacewalk-canceled.html)
― rob, Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
Cross your heart, hope not to die
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 26 March 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
that eggs are not dairy
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
?!
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
Expand on that, flappy
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:41 (five years ago) link
I want to believe
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
Eggs aren't dairy.
Dairy = milk derived.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-eggs-dairy
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
is this one for the American things thread?
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
i think this is a regional thing... i've met people who consider "dairy" to include eggs.
― visiting, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:46 (five years ago) link
those people are wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_product
I used to consider eggs to be part of dairy, because of the 4 food groups. and because of supermarket shelves. doesn't make it so!
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 02:56 (five years ago) link
dairy is made from milkdo the egg-dair ppl think eggs are elaborately whipped milk
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:13 (five years ago) link
wait, this is the Easter lobby’s fault, isn’t it
Eggs are dairy, but fish isn't meat. Ok.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
Eggs are a kind of meat
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:29 (five years ago) link
Somewhere in Shakespeare there's a line: "He's as full of wit as an egg is full of meat."
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:32 (five years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TL_Ro-sDZE4
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:36 (five years ago) link
Curse you, mobile YouTube, for not expanding
Anyway, Ivor Cutler, Egg Meat.
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
I used to consider eggs to be part of dairy, because of the 4 food groups.
me too until yesterday
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link
Could over think things and see them interrelated by being birth related. So possibly having some association in folklore etc.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
I'd get rid of my cow but I need the eggs.
― brownie, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
I was 52 before I tasted rhubarb. Can't get enough of the stuff now.
― CPAP Makers Scrambling After New ILX Sub-board Unveiled (WmC), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
i definitely used to cross-wire dairy and eggs as a kid. must have been down to some kind of nutrition song or something that we learned?
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link
That’s truly shocking, no snark. Rhubarb is a gift of the gods!xp
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:26 (five years ago) link
I also thought eggs were considered dairy, but thought it was weird that they were!
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
milkmen always used to do eggs as well. perhaps that's where the confusion comes from. also, farms.
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 12:49 (five years ago) link
I mean, meat comes from farms too. Farms and militiamen.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
milkmen still do eggs! and coconut milk and bread, all of which is dairy
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 13:35 (five years ago) link
Meat comes from cows too, but not eggs.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 13:53 (five years ago) link
meat DOES come from eggs, what are you on about
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:01 (five years ago) link
wouldn't it have to be a fertilized egg to even be some kind of proto-meat?
I don't know eggs are fucked up
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Apparently, green Haribo gummy bears are strawberry flavored and the red ones are raspberry flavored.
― methanietanner, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Those are the American bears. The European ones, I think the green are apple.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:22 (five years ago) link
it's all the same flavour. can't believe you fall for this swizz
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
I am a haribo sommelier. Don't tell me it's a sham.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:25 (five years ago) link
Wait, why would eggs even be part of a dairy food group?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:32 (five years ago) link
I always thought of it as part of the "meat/meat alternatives" group, which is also the first thing that comes upwhen I Google "4 food groups".
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
Cows continued to lay eggs until sometime during the Middle Ages, hence the confusion. History, folks. Look into it.
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 14:34 (five years ago) link
I suppose proximity in the supermarket might have also facilitated my childhood confusion.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
I always had some confusion about whether eggs were 'dairy' and eggs are in their own special section in the supermarket here (which you can never find), far away from the milk. vague notions of eggs and dairy being in some similar category of something or other in the 80s
― kinder, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Things you don't consume 'raw'?
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
What, like chicken?
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
'Animal-derived products that aren't meat'? Honey is also dairy.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
(I don't think I ever thought that eggs were dairy but they were definitely put in the same food group as milk in those old infographics.)
Have yrself a hunka' quiche
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/12/Timer_cartoon.png
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
Look, a wagon wheel!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:08 (five years ago) link
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 709 Meat is then set down to them on a flat plate, consisting of crumbled bread and oatmeal.
― moose; squirrel (silby), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
Where I live we have long-since galaxy-brained into "lacto-ovo", "dairy" seems so old-world (apologies old-worlders).
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
They played pretty fast and loose with food groups back in the day. Butter/margarine, for instance, was once a group unto itself. Not sure how many servings they recommended.
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
Four sticks a day keeps adulthood away!
― The First Time Ever I Fly @ U Face (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link