I guess its been used in the "male chauvinism" context so much the other usage has faded?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:25 (five years ago) link
the og French indie rock stan!↓ ↓ ↓ ↓
"..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 "
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 01:36 (five years ago) link
Despite living in America for 3 years I only realised today that 'egg rolls' are spring rolls
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 07:32 (five years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:37 (five years ago) link
well they're closer than what i imagined which was some kind of omelettey thing
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
and what about California Rolls - why California? This is Japanese food non?
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
oh... so apparently it's not Japanese, it's like the Balti - invented in California and used to popularise sushi in other countries
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 08:56 (five years ago) link
Can I join your club?
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 09:36 (five years ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
OK egg rolls seem to be deep fried. Now I'm thinking theyre more like Chiko Rolls (google it)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
my wife (Merican living in UK) says egg rolls are definitely not the same as spring rolls
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:23 (five years ago) link
i've been to US Chinese restaurants that had both items on the menu, so there must be a difference
― Lee626, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:39 (five years ago) link
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 with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
I spent a lot of my childhood wrapping won tons and egg rolls.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
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
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Basically that, yes. If spring rolls are in a steam tray on a buffet line, they're probably pretty much Asian taquitos.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
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."
― emotional support legume (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link
Is a hot dog a food tube
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:36 (five years ago) link
A hot dog is a food tube which is also a sandwich.
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:37 (five years ago) link
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.
― emotional support legume (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CourageousCloudyKatydid-max-1mb.gif
― Eliza D., Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
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
― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
lol eliza
― kinder, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
yah spring rolls are fried in a crispy egg pastry thing, summer rolls are in rice paper ime and thus imo
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:25 (five years ago) link
please don't say the word "tubular", i have "super mario world"-based ptsd
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 04:29 (five years ago) link
I just call the raw/unfried kind "ricepaper rolls"
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:20 (five years ago) link
http://gallery.wonkothesane.com/d/582-1/toobs.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:21 (five years ago) link
They don't look very saucy
― kinder, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:39 (five years ago) link
the vietnamese-style unfried ones are my jamhttp://d1v827hezncazj.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/goi-cuon-recipe.jpg
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
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
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I don't think I have ever really seen an egg roll outside of the US.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
The things MH just posted are called "summer rolls" in the UK, fwiw.
― Tim, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
Has Perry Farrell ever been a pitchman for this foodstuff, y/n
― Not with a bang but a MAGA (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
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.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
so for UK people "egg rolls" are "spring rolls", yeah?
― the Messi inside (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:08 (five years ago) link
http://mentalfloss.com/article/16080/whats-difference-egg-roll-vs-spring-roll
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link
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
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
ok so Australian spring rolls are popiah tod, summer rolls are summer rolls**also rice-paper rolls but that's so boring
― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
That was illuminating.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
Popiah tod def familiar.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:40 (five years ago) link
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― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:49 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 14:49 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah these are the bomb. "naim chow" is what i've always known them as. prawns inside often. and maybe.. cilantro?? or am i dreaming that
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 23:16 (five years ago) link
prob mint?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 15 June 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
haha yes i think you're right
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 June 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
I've no idea. I was really young. lots of fish sauce I think. they were amazing and I would love to know how to make them or where I could get some where I live
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Saturday, 16 June 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link
i love vietnamese food so have notedif not tried places that have popped up recently - you could try Rollin Vietnamese in town, follow Viet Vite on Twitter (although he's all about the banh mi), Pho Hanoi was good for pho when I used to go, and there seem to be bao places popping up all over.
― kinder, Saturday, 16 June 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
That Midge Ure is called Midge because it's Jim backwards, not because he's small.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 10:54 (five years ago) link