Things you were shockingly old when you learned

woah

“Manufactured” just means “hand-made”!

and artefact means "made by craft", which leads it to have two weirdly different meanings:
- a precious object made by skilled craftsmanship, e.g. a museum artefact
- an unintended junk byproduct of the production process, e.g. a jpeg artefact

(it also has two valid spellings but not sure it gets any less confusing to spell the two meanings differently)

That there’s prize money for winning the World Cup. $38 million for this year’s winner, $28million for runner up etc...

don't think i've ever thought about it!

Does it go to the FAs or the players? I had a quick Google and couldn’t find out, but did see that this year’s $794 million is $400 to the competitors* (everyone gets at least $8m) and the rest to the players clubs both for using their players and potential payouts if they get injured.

*again FAs ot players I don’t know.

I just found out recently that my club will earning something like $40 grand a day whilst it's Danish/Australian international are still in the competition, which likely won't be very long - but it's a nice earner if none of yr players get massacred!

Split between FA and players? At least in USA. X amount for the group games, another X if you get out of the group, and so on.

i've never been clear on the meaning of the word "chauvinism" / "chauvinist" until today.

Huh. Having just looked it up, apparently neither was I.

I guess its been used in the "male chauvinism" context so much the other usage has faded?

the og French indie rock stan!
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"..from the character Nicholas Chauvin, soldier of Napoleon's Grand Armee, notoriously attached to the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards' popular 1831 vaudeville "La Cocarde Tricolore "

Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls

according to Wikipedia... not quite? they have 2 separate entries. Spring rolls are listed as Chinese (and they look like what we get in UK, although I expect ours are some kind of inferior abomination) while Egg rolls have their own page as a Chinese-American dish, and they look different in the pictures.

well they're closer than what i imagined which was some kind of omelettey thing

and what about California Rolls - why California? This is Japanese food non?

oh... so apparently it's not Japanese, it's like the Balti - invented in California and used to popularise sushi in other countries

Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls

Can I join your club?

Yeah til a while ago I thought egg rolls were some kind of reverse-sushi thing with an omlette, not just a bloody spring roll.

OK egg rolls seem to be deep fried. Now I'm thinking theyre more like Chiko Rolls (google it)

my wife (Merican living in UK) says egg rolls are definitely not the same as spring rolls

i've been to US Chinese restaurants that had both items on the menu, so there must be a difference

I think spring rolls tend to vary in kind and substance more than egg rolls, which are almost always a big, rolled, fried wonton filled with stuff. Spring rolls are basically egg rolls on some menus but egg rolls are pretty predictably just egg rolls.

Not looking it up, I would say spring rolls are in a rice wrapping, steam/fried and egg rolls use a won ton like wrapping and are deep fried.

I spent a lot of my childhood wrapping won tons and egg rolls.

there are different kinds of spring rolls - the stuff you get from chinese restaurants are basically tiny egg rolls, but vietnamese spring rolls are totally different

Basically that, yes. If spring rolls are in a steam tray on a buffet line, they're probably pretty much Asian taquitos.

Sometimes the non-fried roll in rice paper is called a summer roll or garden roll.

There is not a lot of consistency in the nomenclature; I propose we just call them all "food tubes."

Is a hot dog a food tube

A hot dog is a food tube which is also a sandwich.

Well, when you get right down to it, the entire exercise of eating is what digestive scientists call "bolus formation."

Everything about the shape of your digestive tract encourages tubularity in food. The more your food already resembles the shape of poop, the more smoothly everything goes on its way to your anus.

Down with angular and planar food! Food tubes (be they hot dogs or gogurt) are the way of the future.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CourageousCloudyKatydid-max-1mb.gif

A hot dog is a food tube which is also a sandwich

A sausage is a food tube so a hot dog is a food tube tube

also now I have Invader Zim on loop in my head saying "shut your noise tube, taco human", which will go nicely with the previous ILX-induced Zim brainworm of "Have you the brainworms?!" thanks to the "friend has the right-wing brainworms" thread

california rolls as a sushi menu item seem kind of obviously not of japanese origin because of the avocado, unless there's some japanese avocado supply I'm unaware of

lol eliza

Sometimes the non-fried roll in rice paper is called a summer roll or garden roll.

yah spring rolls are fried in a crispy egg pastry thing, summer rolls are in rice paper ime and thus imo

please don't say the word "tubular", i have "super mario world"-based ptsd

I just call the raw/unfried kind "ricepaper rolls"

http://gallery.wonkothesane.com/d/582-1/toobs.jpg

They don't look very saucy

I always think of spring rolls as what Trayce calls "ricepaper rolls". I'd be surprised if I ordered spring rolls and received egg rolls.

the vietnamese-style unfried ones are my jam
http://d1v827hezncazj.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/goi-cuon-recipe.jpg

in France I once ate absolutely delicious things they called 'naim' which were apparently Vietnamese, but weren't crunchy and more like what mh just posted but already in the sauce

Yeah, I don't think I have ever really seen an egg roll outside of the US.

The things MH just posted are called "summer rolls" in the UK, fwiw.

Has Perry Farrell ever been a pitchman for this foodstuff, y/n

mh's picture = what I most often think of as "spring rolls", although I see in Wikipedia that it is quite a broad term. I guess the Chinatown here is practically a Vietnam-town.

so for UK people "egg rolls" are "spring rolls", yeah?

http://mentalfloss.com/article/16080/whats-difference-egg-roll-vs-spring-roll

ooh, or even more accurate and containing a multi-country roundup:
https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/the-differences-between-egg-rolls-spring-rolls-popiah-and-lumpia