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2022-03-25, 01:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
I remember asking my first girlfriend what the French called the dish, if it was like the English term for English Muffins ('American Thingy').
But yeah, whether these names are actually accurate is pretty much random. English mustard is English, French mustard is not French.
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2022-03-25, 01:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 03:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
Back when I spent a couple weeks in Ireland, they salwartly refused to believe me when I told them that we did not call French toast "toast" and that what we called "toast" was the exact same thing they call toast.
French toast is called pain perdu (literally "lost bread", but more accurately "wasted bread") because it's normally cooked with bread that has gone stale and dry and can't be used for anything else*. Let it get damp in a mix of milk, egg and sugar and fry it on a pan and you've got a perfectly serviceable dessert! It's the one nice thing about two people both buying a baguette coming back from work because they thought the other wasn't going to.
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2022-03-25, 03:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
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2022-03-25, 03:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2022-03-25, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 04:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 04:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
On that topic, I've been trying to cut back on soda. Last week or so I've only had two cans of cola a day. Caught myself reaching for one and having to tell myself that I don't need it a couple times but otherwise it seems to be going well.
I mostly drink that zero sugar stuff that ain't got no calories so this isn't a weight thing, I'm just at the point where I'm a little concerned about how much caffeine is in my system at any given time.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-03-25, 04:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 05:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
To be fair the only difference between the French and Canadians is that one is unflinchingly snooty and the other eternally polite
Oh, and I guess it's a longer journey if I decide I want to flirt with ola Canadian. French beaches are just so much closer.
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2022-03-25, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Random thought that popped into my head just now.
A soup. Start with chopped bacon and a pad of butter. When bacon is fried to a crisp, add sliced mushrooms and partially roasted diced potatoes. Once that's settled, add chicken broth, heavy cream, and kosher salt. Once boiling melt in a mixture of sharp cheddar and Colby jack cheese, then top with black pepper and white pepper to taste.
Sound edible?I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-03-25, 06:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-25, 08:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
Except Quebec, which is full of a bunch of fake Frenchmen insecure about how not French they are who overcompensate as a result.
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2022-03-25, 08:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
ffrench by chance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FfrenchThe end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2022-03-26, 03:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
I used to grow pumpkins.
When I was a little kid, one year we just dumped the guts from jack-o-lantern carving behind the bushes in the front yard as fertilizer and unbeknownst to us there was still a seed in there. It took root and then every year on clockwork we'd have a pumpkin vine snaking up next to the front stoop.
I was just a kid and didn't really know much about agriculture, so most of what I did was sit next to the vine, check on it, and sometimes talk to it because that was around the time I heard the "plants react to sounds" things and obviously, these weren't ideal circumstances for growing pumpkins so while the pumpkins never really got that big. Mabe the size of a baseball, except kind of flat.
Since they wouldn't get too big before winter hit, we'd bring them in around Thanksgiving time and use them as decorations or centerpieces.
I don't know why I'm sharing this now. Just, something reminded me of the old house and I got to thinking of my pumpkin vine.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-03-27, 06:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey everyone. I'm watching the Oscars (AKA the Academy Awards) right now at the moment.
It's time to get my Magikarp on!
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2022-03-27, 07:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-27, 07:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-27, 07:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
Today is my mother's birthday. My aunt got her a giant electric skillet. Good quality one, too. The kind where you can do all kinds of things with it.
Since Easter is coming up and my mom tends to do all the cooking during the holidays, she immediately asked "is this a hint?"
So apparently we're doing a big old thing of scalloped potatoes from scratch on Easter Sunday.
In all seriousness though, my mom loves these kinds of countertop kitchen appliances and uses them all the time so.Last edited by Rater202; 2022-03-27 at 07:18 PM.
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2022-03-27, 07:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-27, 07:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, I mean, "right now at the moment" is redundant. "Right now" means "at the moment". It's like saying "you wrote the same things twice two times".
Sounds like a pretty neat gift. Also, anything that grays more scalloped potatoes is great.Last edited by Peelee; 2022-03-27 at 07:25 PM.
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2022-03-27, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-27, 10:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Mystic Muse's Mostly Mildly Mediocre Random Banter #238
My mom also got a brand new scale. Electronic talking scale.
...Turns out the old, possibly broken one was off by about twelve pounds.
So I somehow managed to lose a significant amount of weight without noticing over the course of two years and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2022-03-28, 08:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-03-28, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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