Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Weirdly, the hard-left faction of our left-wing party used to be called "The Waffle" so I wondered if that was serious for a split-second.xp

correct so far as it goes, except that british waffles are buttered on the left side, not the right side as in the US.

wait waffles are buttered on sides? I just drench the motherfucker

does the usa have potato waffles or are they a uk thing? because this was the only waffle I knew until adulthood.

are those like waffle fries? if so, yea

ok, searched for waffle fries, the answer is "yes, but like four times the size of those"

like this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9PMr05j-B4k/hqdefault.jpg

what do brits call waffles

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, November 25, 2019 5:23 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is taht what a Belgian waffle is.
I think the Birdseye variety tend to be more savoury, some of them are potato based rather than batter and what have you.
BUt the big thing about a waffle is that it is made with a waffle iron so will have the criss cross design on it.
& it might also refer to a style of trouser that had a similar look, but not seen those in a few decades.

That there's a brand of Dijon mustard called Grey Poupon that Americans consider to be quintessentially French but that is virtually unknown in France.

Ha, I just learned that Grey Poupon actually did originate in France. I had always assumed it was American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgPk5T1xi0

I still find myself on one or the other side of this scenario like a few times a week at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WADh8vk3A

cream of wheat isn't porridge
I'm still not sure where "grits" fits in

"French" mustard is particular to the UK and was invented by Colman's in 1936. It became a popular accompaniment to steak in particular. Colman's ceased production of French mustard in 2001 after Unilever, which now own Colman's, were ordered to stop selling it by the EU, following its takeover of rival mustard-maker Amora Maille in 2000.[37] Many British supermarkets still offer their own version of French mustard.

And you wonder why Brexit happened?

cream of wheat isn't porridge
I'm still not sure where "grits" fits in

― kinder, Monday, November 25, 2019 11:00 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

grits are polenta

cream of wheat is sort of disgusting imo. porridge and grits are v good

you know what's good, congee, why am I not always eating it

my controversial food opinion is that congee is boring and sucks the flavour out of everything it touches

insane

Never gonna get through all 36 Chambers with that attitude

I could argue about it but no need as anyone can try it and find out how dull it is.

I mean like even if it were boring, why would boring food be bad

it's actively boring, it's like eating a bowl of particularly insipid new age music

colman's french mustard was my favourite as a kid, until i realised i disliked vinegar which it mostly tasted of

I've only had congee at a vietnamese restaurant and it's for sure the most boring thing on a vietnamese menu.

Xxpost tbh Yanni being eaten isn't the worst idea

Albert Ayler and Nick Drake died on the same day 4 years apart. Or at least Ayler was found drowned on this day 25th November 1970.
Heard he was rumoured to have been tied to a jukebox.
Just heard about the same date thing.

grits are polenta?
why did people tell me it's like porridge?

One weird explanation:

Not only am I an American, but I was born and raised in The South. Those facts make it even weirder that I used to get oatmeal and grits mixed up.

As a kid, I regularly ate Malt O'Meal.

https://i.imgur.com/B1Zsvq6.jpg

It looked like this:

https://i.imgur.com/fDKkWf8.jpg

Which isn't completely off the same mark as what grits looks like:

https://i.imgur.com/OYKhWNt.png

I never ate any grits around the house, but I just assumed they were an oatmeal, or rather, a similar "o'meal" like what I usually had for breakfast.

Boy was I wrong.

Also, big thanks to OneHundredDollarsaMonth.com for the Malt O'Meal pic.

Polenta can be cooked soft like porridge or ex. into polenta cakes. Cream of wheat falls under the category of porridge x post. I don't think I have ever eaten it though.

I am very into grey poupon. I have 6 mustards right now. Two grey poupon, trader joes dijon, two monoprix balsamic dijon, maille whole seed dijon.

grits are polenta?
why did people tell me it's like porridge?

― kinder, Monday, November 25, 2019 1:32 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think technically they're a little bit different, but they're the same substance, just that polenta is a bit more coarse and grits is bit more fine (?)

you can cook polenta like a porridgy thing. it's how i usually have it

when it cools can you use it as a frisbee? this is iron law of grits ontology

wake me up when you guys figure out what hominy is

yeah it cools solid. you can then bake it or fry it etc.

Hominy is a large solid corn blob, not a purée or a ground corn.

Arepas are also made of corn meal but somehow different from polenta, and also the same.

I did not just learn this

I did just learn about grits and hominy tbh.

I think I just learnt about "French" mustard, OTOH it's the kind of thing I probably had been told about and thought oh that's interesting and promptly forgot about

I have been informed that the flapjack/pancake confusion falls into that category

I saw the the opening 15 minutes of the Star Trek Trouble With Tribbles episode, in which they mention a grain called quadri-triticale, the last part of the name from the actual grain triticale, and they pronounced the final "e" - trih-tih-cay-lee. I had read the real name for years, and always thought it was trih-tih-cael, the final "e" making the 'a" long but not pronounced. I googled it just now to check on those doofus writers and god damnit the long "e" at the end is correct.

I didn't know that the Parthenon was far more intact than it is today all the way up until 1687, when it was used as a gunpowder magazine and subsequently blew up after being shelled during a war between the Ottomans and the Venetians.

What an absolute miracle that it had been so intact for the 2000+ years before that!

Peter friggin' Murphy was the 'cool dude in the chair' in the old Maxell commercials from the 80s!?

Am I the only Bauhaus fan / sentient being who did not know this??

I don't believe this one

This is a well-worn did you know? So suitably shocking for this thread.

I did a little research and found why this didn't seem correct. Peter Murphy was the guy in a UK-only version of this ad, that I had never seen before. He is not in the original ad.

Was gonna say, my recollection of the dude in the ad I'm familiar with is that he was the type of guy ad execs expected us to accept as 'cool' because he wears sunglasses indoors.

That the Tobe in Tobe Hooper doesn't rhyme with robe

Say what?

Yah, it's pronounced like Toby.

most very likely was NOT Peter Murphy

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/blown-away-man/