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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 jam
http://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

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

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 noted
if 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

... so he claims.

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 10:56 (five years ago) link

yes, his real name is jim eru

I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 10:58 (five years ago) link

Admittedly he is from Glasgow so would have to be about 4 foot 2 before he could earn a soubriquet based on being diminutive.

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link

That the woman in this gif is Christina Aguilera.

https://i.imgur.com/3SkaLrj.gif

pplains, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:17 (five years ago) link

three 6 mafia = 666 mafia

diamonddave85​​ (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link

Surely not

devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 26 June 2018 21:06 (five years ago) link

Sanders' first name is PharOAH, not PharAOH (I just noticed this).

ArchCarrier, Friday, 29 June 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link

I think Sanders first name was originally Farell and Pharoah started off as a nicknmae

Stevolende, Friday, 29 June 2018 12:01 (five years ago) link

i just learned to shave. i'm 34. OWCH

music saved my life (Ross), Friday, 29 June 2018 20:28 (five years ago) link

- some people can't be changed or fixed, don't bother trying
- 5 cent candy schemes are easy. Walk up to the counter, say you got like 1.50 - they will say "that's 30 candies". While they're not looking or busy, throw in an extra 5-20

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:36 (five years ago) link

Between him and Pharoahe Monch, I can no longer remember how to spell pharaoh correctly on any occasion.

change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:42 (five years ago) link

lol you and me both

Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 21:50 (five years ago) link

That a groundnut = a peanut. So groundnut oil, which I regularly cook with, is peanut oil. Had no idea.

Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 5 July 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link

I think Sanders first name was originally Farell and Pharoah started off as a nickname

A nickname given to him by Sun Ra. When Sanders first arrived in NYC his nickname was "Little Rock," because he was from Arkansas.

grawlix (unperson), Thursday, 5 July 2018 13:43 (five years ago) link

that the immaculate conception refers to the conception _mary_. i was in my 40s when i learned that.

Hunt3r, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link

"of _mary_"

Hunt3r, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link

however the immaculate collection is of _the_ madonna iirc

mh, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 18:57 (five years ago) link

Did not know. But you could fill a Bible with what I don't know about Christianity.

This Casserole is Divine! (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link

wait what?
i thought the immaculate conception was about the conception of JESUS within the body of Mary (the immaculate heart of)
mary herself was conceived immaculately?

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link

that doesn't sound right at all

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link

I think the idea is that the 'vessel' that bore Christ had to be without original sin, so Mary was born sinless to bear Him.

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link

yup

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link

Xtianity is bizarre

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link

i thought it just meant the conception of jesus was done without sin (filthy horrifying sinful human sexual activity) not that she was born "pure"
are you serious?

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link

i learnt that from here: Innocuous things that make you irrationally angry (a list thread)

koogs, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:04 (five years ago) link

(2011)

koogs, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link


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