Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Americans call Chinese burns Indian burns

― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, November 25, 2019 9:29 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So long as we're all resolved to refer to this particular kind of burn in quasi-racist terms.

― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, November 25, 2019 3:46 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

unforch, I don't remember schoolkids in the 80s and 90s taking this into consideration

No, they sure didn't.

every once in a while someone references a wildly racist/sexist/homophobic thing from my childhood and I think, wow, we really did say that, huh?

my "abouts" were lightly canadian for a week or so after my montreal trip this year

There's sort of a continuum with how that diphthong gets raised in RoC ime, less "oo" and more "oh" as you go from east to west in broad terms, I think. (People in the Prairies would comment on mine.) Montreal's seem possibly the least raised to me, though.

xpost Not only that, but I occasionally think about how carefree childhood refrains of 'joy to the world, the teacher's dead' or 'on top of the schoolhouse all covered with blood' would probably get a kid expelled nowadays.

it wasn't really a "shockingly old" thing in that I don't think it'd be a thing people would learn unless they knew someone from Saskatchewan, but in that province people refer to a hooded sweatshirt as a "bunny hug"

Ha, yeah. Idk if the Mackenzie brothers used that particular one but a lot of things from the Great White North sketches never made sense to me until I lived in Regina.

I will be a little sad if kids are no longer singing "glory, glory, how peculiar! The teacher hit me with a ruler..." anymore.

what do brits call waffles

waffles

they're waffly versatile

brits call waffles "Labour Party" iirc

They're still called waffles but they differ constitutionally as they're comprised mostly of a pig's blood and bone meal batter poured onto a waffle iron. IIRC? Could be wrong. But it sounds right.

Weirdly, the hard-left faction of our left-wing party used to be called "The Waffle" so I wondered if that was serious for a split-second.xp

correct so far as it goes, except that british waffles are buttered on the left side, not the right side as in the US.

wait waffles are buttered on sides? I just drench the motherfucker

does the usa have potato waffles or are they a uk thing? because this was the only waffle I knew until adulthood.

are those like waffle fries? if so, yea

ok, searched for waffle fries, the answer is "yes, but like four times the size of those"

like this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9PMr05j-B4k/hqdefault.jpg

what do brits call waffles

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, November 25, 2019 5:23 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is taht what a Belgian waffle is.
I think the Birdseye variety tend to be more savoury, some of them are potato based rather than batter and what have you.
BUt the big thing about a waffle is that it is made with a waffle iron so will have the criss cross design on it.
& it might also refer to a style of trouser that had a similar look, but not seen those in a few decades.

That there's a brand of Dijon mustard called Grey Poupon that Americans consider to be quintessentially French but that is virtually unknown in France.

Ha, I just learned that Grey Poupon actually did originate in France. I had always assumed it was American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgPk5T1xi0

I still find myself on one or the other side of this scenario like a few times a week at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WADh8vk3A

cream of wheat isn't porridge
I'm still not sure where "grits" fits in

"French" mustard is particular to the UK and was invented by Colman's in 1936. It became a popular accompaniment to steak in particular. Colman's ceased production of French mustard in 2001 after Unilever, which now own Colman's, were ordered to stop selling it by the EU, following its takeover of rival mustard-maker Amora Maille in 2000.[37] Many British supermarkets still offer their own version of French mustard.

And you wonder why Brexit happened?

cream of wheat isn't porridge
I'm still not sure where "grits" fits in

― kinder, Monday, November 25, 2019 11:00 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

grits are polenta

cream of wheat is sort of disgusting imo. porridge and grits are v good

you know what's good, congee, why am I not always eating it

my controversial food opinion is that congee is boring and sucks the flavour out of everything it touches

insane

Never gonna get through all 36 Chambers with that attitude

I could argue about it but no need as anyone can try it and find out how dull it is.

I mean like even if it were boring, why would boring food be bad

it's actively boring, it's like eating a bowl of particularly insipid new age music

colman's french mustard was my favourite as a kid, until i realised i disliked vinegar which it mostly tasted of

I've only had congee at a vietnamese restaurant and it's for sure the most boring thing on a vietnamese menu.

Xxpost tbh Yanni being eaten isn't the worst idea

Albert Ayler and Nick Drake died on the same day 4 years apart. Or at least Ayler was found drowned on this day 25th November 1970.
Heard he was rumoured to have been tied to a jukebox.
Just heard about the same date thing.

grits are polenta?
why did people tell me it's like porridge?

One weird explanation:

Not only am I an American, but I was born and raised in The South. Those facts make it even weirder that I used to get oatmeal and grits mixed up.

As a kid, I regularly ate Malt O'Meal.

https://i.imgur.com/B1Zsvq6.jpg

It looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/fDKkWf8.jpg

Which isn't completely off the same mark as what grits looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/OYKhWNt.png

I never ate any grits around the house, but I just assumed they were an oatmeal, or rather, a similar "o'meal" like what I usually had for breakfast.

Boy was I wrong.

Also, big thanks to OneHundredDollarsaMonth.com for the Malt O'Meal pic.

Polenta can be cooked soft like porridge or ex. into polenta cakes. Cream of wheat falls under the category of porridge x post. I don't think I have ever eaten it though.

I am very into grey poupon. I have 6 mustards right now. Two grey poupon, trader joes dijon, two monoprix balsamic dijon, maille whole seed dijon.

grits are polenta?
why did people tell me it's like porridge?

― kinder, Monday, November 25, 2019 1:32 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think technically they're a little bit different, but they're the same substance, just that polenta is a bit more coarse and grits is bit more fine (?)

you can cook polenta like a porridgy thing. it's how i usually have it

when it cools can you use it as a frisbee? this is iron law of grits ontology

wake me up when you guys figure out what hominy is

yeah it cools solid. you can then bake it or fry it etc.

Hominy is a large solid corn blob, not a purée or a ground corn.

Arepas are also made of corn meal but somehow different from polenta, and also the same.

I did not just learn this