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I'm sure it's nice but it's an unappetizing photo presented with minimal context. I spent a while thinking I was supposed to be spotting insect parts or rat feces or something else disgusting in there.
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haveblue posted:I'm sure it's nice but it's an unappetizing photo presented with minimal context. I spent a while thinking I was supposed to be spotting insect parts or rat feces or something else disgusting in there. Still swear to God I see earthworms in there. Still waiting on that story, too 
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Dreylad posted:ford didn't write all that! If you've got a favorable review of a fascist dictator you... you didn't write that.
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haveblue posted:I'm sure it's nice but it's an unappetizing photo presented with minimal context. I spent a while thinking I was supposed to be spotting insect parts or rat feces or something else disgusting in there. Ok, I must be weird because I saw that photo and it made me hungry. I've never had that particular dish, but food served in paper under bad lighting is synonymous with tasty food to me. Doner Kebab, burritos, pizza, you name it.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Ok, I must be weird because I saw that photo and it made me hungry. I've never had that particular dish, but food served in paper under bad lighting is synonymous with tasty food to me. Doner Kebab, burritos, pizza, you name it. Ahem, Kebabs go into these boxes: 
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Sep 4, 2014 20:37
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not when they're put into pita
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Sep 4, 2014 20:41
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I've heard there's some emerging academic books and papers on how infrastructure is the actual basis for the American economy, has anyone read any of them and/or have some links? I found a few books like Next Generation Infrastructure but it wasn't what I heard talked about on NPR which was basically a case of how infrastructure not the stock market is the primary driver of economic success.
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Sep 4, 2014 20:44
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Yeah, they way I got them when I was in Europe was meat with some lettuce and garnish vegetables with a delicious sauce crammed into pita or lavash and wrapped up in paper. Some of the best food I've ever had and it's one of my biggest complaints about America that it's incredibly hard to find here. Like you can find all the components well done individually but for some reason no one will put it together the right way.
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Sep 4, 2014 20:48
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:Yeah, they way I got them when I was in Europe was meat with some lettuce and garnish vegetables with a delicious sauce crammed into pita or lavash and wrapped up in paper. Some of the best food I've ever had and it's one of my biggest complaints about America that it's incredibly hard to find here. Like you can find all the components well done individually but for some reason no one will put it together the right way. Having been to the Mediterranean recently I can confirm that good pita is for some reason really hard to find in America. Like, the brittle, dry crap they stock in supermarkets is just vile.
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loquacius posted:Having been to the Mediterranean recently I can confirm that good pita is for some reason really hard to find in America. Like, the brittle, dry crap they stock in supermarkets is just vile.  even restaurant pita half the time just comes out of a bag behind the counter. It is depressing to watch the guy slice off my delicious shawarma and then slap it into a dusty supermarket pita-napkin (shut up it's close to where I work).
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I went to undergrad at a big state school and there was this restaurant storefront right near campus that got rented out by a bunch of Germans right before I graduated and they put in a Doner kebab restaurant. I imagine them going "oh my God they don't have these in America? Well we know from growing up in Europe that college kids loving love these things so we'll sell like a jillion and we'll be loving rich!" I had one (yes, while drunk), it wasn't that good. They asked me if I wanted hot sauce and I said yes and it just tasted like ketchup. e: If anyone here is at UT Austin is that storefront on Guadalupe next to Hole in the Wall still the kebab place or did they go out of business just like the previous four tenants? Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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Sep 4, 2014 21:10
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If they wanted the pita to be any good they'd just make naan. I bring it up because I'm about to go to an Indian place and eat food until it hurts, and then continue eating until there's none left.
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Sep 4, 2014 21:27
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R. Mute posted:not when they're put into pita What's this kind of bread then? 
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Kurtofan posted:What's this kind of bread then?
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Sep 4, 2014 21:37
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no it actually is pronounced Grandeur
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We call it a grec.
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While on the topic of pita, Americans even manage to gently caress up pita chips. Why is it so hard to find a LIGHTLY salted chip that won't shatter my teeth (gently caress you, Stacy)
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Sep 4, 2014 22:24
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Pita is the most practical of "Bread with meat in it" dishes, because unlike hamburgers even an America sized portion cannot fall out of a half-sliced pita bread. Though we tend to call it just bread in order to stay neutral in the ongoing gyros vs. döner war.
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Randler posted:Pita is the most practical of "Bread with meat in it" dishes, because unlike hamburgers even an America sized portion cannot fall out of a half-sliced pita bread. In college when classes were too close together to get a proper lunch I started making my own brown bags and very quickly discovered dr he utility of a pita pocket. It's like a hot pocket but instead of shame and heart failure it has homemade stuff and pride
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is there a practical difference between a gyro and a doner. They just opened a new doner place up by my house (S. Lamar, Austin lads), I wanna go.
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Sep 4, 2014 22:26
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Orthodox Greek versus Dirty Islam
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Sep 4, 2014 22:36
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Oh so this is like how Turkish food is just actually also Greek food.
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Sep 4, 2014 22:38
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Also souvlaki makes it worth it because god drat pork is delicious
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Sep 4, 2014 22:39
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In France they're either called greek sandwiches or kebabs, but it's the same thing, this is confusing
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zoux posted:Oh so this is like how Turkish food is just actually also Greek food. I mean I know for a fact I can't find decent poutine anywhere. Last time I saw it on a menu I got excited. It came out as steak fries with melted mozzarella and McCormick's brown gravy. What the gently caress.
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Sep 4, 2014 22:41
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Maybe try Canada bro.
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If you ask for poutine in Russia, what happens
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Sep 4, 2014 22:43
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Vodka
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zoux posted:Maybe try Canada bro. This was a direct response to Turkish = Greek
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It's probably because of, well, the potatoes and cheese, but I fell asleep like 15 minutes after my first poutine.
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mooyashi posted:This was a direct response to Turkish = Greek I've never eaten/seen poutine in my life so I did not understand your joke.
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Who came up with poutine?
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Kurtofan posted:Who came up with poutine? Alcoholics.
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quote:Unlike Mr Thomas, Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains. This is not history; it is advocacy. ~ The Economist, reviewing The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Joementum posted:~ The Economist, reviewing The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism lol jesus christ
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Joementum posted:~ The Economist, reviewing The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism The Economist is great in that it's been wrong, consistently, for well over 100 years. It's on my list of things that people tell me to read that indicates they think they're smarter than they are, along with columns by David Brooks and Tom Friedman.
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Sep 4, 2014 23:48
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Once upon a time I had a subscription, and thought they weren't the worst for general world events even if they recommended terrible economic policies, was I wrong? That's an appallingly bad article, who thought that was a good idea to print?
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Sep 4, 2014 23:52
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Joementum posted:~ The Economist, reviewing The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is there a functional difference between the Economist and the WSJ
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The best summary I've ever heard of the Economist is that Europeans laugh at its articles on Europe but read it for the articles about the rest of the world, North Americans laugh at its articles on North America but read it for the articles about the rest of the world, Africans laugh at its articles on Africa but read it for the articles about the rest of, etc, etc...
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Joementum posted:~ The Economist, reviewing The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism Jesus Christ.  I'm about halfway through the New Yorker article about AIPAC. It's a shame it's in the New Yorker, so nobody who should is going to pay any attention to it.
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