Posts by giovanni tiso
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You, unlike me, have local access to Sweet Mother's Kitchen. Their gumbo is actual gumbo!
Ohhhh... that is the kind of news that could add pounds to my life. Soon I shall be portly.
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food in a minute "cannelloni" on the telly which drove me to instant despair
Would you like a cup of chino with that, sir?
No, in fact coffee here is great, it completely cramps whatever feeling of jingoistic snobbery I thought I would be harbouring before emigrating to this fair land. It's how they were making those things... oh, the humanity!
I assume this is the same despair I feel when people call fish soup 'gumbo'?
My life is better because I had a real gumbo once.
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Easier just to use than try and make up a neologism, tho. And it is in commonish usage somewhere else I comment, so.
Internet acronyms: they're the ready-made sauces of human expression.
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Stale bread with a slice of onion and a smear of chicken fat, maybe some salt herring...
Okay, but there are tons of ethnic diets that have broad popular origin and appeal. Sorry to harp on about my own, but hey, it's what I know: and it's both cheap and healthy, not to mention uncomplicated.
(Just as I was typing that I saw a food in a minute "cannelloni" on the telly which drove me to instant despair. If you need me I'll be in the bathroom, crying.)
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SWPL = Stuff White People Like, (See also: swipple, yuppie.)
There is nothing that white people like more than odious acronyms.
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It sounds as if you agree with me a bit.
A bit, but you lose me completely when you make it prescriptive. Conversations of this kind often devolve into the idea that eating well and being healthy are moral imperatives and I find that line of thinking decidedly distasteful. Plus, we all live imperfect lives, trading the time it would take to learn to make the perfect Platonic porridge with other things we've got going.
That said, I do worry a bit when the Otago grocery study data are released, and think that broadly, as a nation, we could use to learn how to cook more and cook better. That might require a bit of evangelical fervour on the part of somebody else, I'm just personally not that way inclined. (Although Russell could mention his pizza making via flatbread found by the side of the road more often and tip me over that particular edge.)
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It has never really existed is the thing; it's just a nonsense, and it's a rather classist one at that, premised on some really pernicious myths about the proper way to eat. (And it's almost certainly inconsistent to boot.)
Oh, I don't know that it's terribly inconsistent. Preparing foods yourself using fresh ingredients is a fairly demonstrable way to eat better. As for the classist thing, it's complicated: for instance Italian cuisine is certainly popular with the New Zealand middle class, but it's working class food in its origin, still very cheap and not terribly difficult to prepare. Indian friends tell me that the same applies to their culinary traditions.
Which is not to say that I agree with Brickley, but.
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I don't have a particular problem with the salaries earned by our MPs. And most ministers would probably be able to earn a lot more if they were in the private sector.
I don't have a problem with them earning a lot of money. I'd just like it to be a multiplier of the minimum wage and to increase at the same annual rate.
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I've sometimes daydreamed that an ideal way to determine MPs' salaries would be to link them directly to the average full-time wage.
I'd go one further and make it a multiplier of the minimum wage.
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Even if there's an innocent explanation
I look forward to hearing it.