Posted on 05/13/2009 6:04:45 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
calamari • \kah-luh-MAHR-ee\ • noun
squid used as food
Example sentence:
Ophelia tried fried calamari for the first time from a small seafood shack near the beach.
Did you know?
The word "calamari" was borrowed into English from 17th-century Italian, where it functioned as the plural of "calamaro" or "calamaio." The Italian word, in turn, comes from the Medieval Latin noun "calamarium," meaning "ink pot" or "pen case," and can be ultimately traced back to Latin "calamus," meaning "reed pen." The transition from pens and ink to squid is not surprising, given the inky substance that a squid ejects and the long tapered shape of the squid's body. English speakers have also adopted "calamus" itself as a word referring to both a reed pen and to a number of plants.
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Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
I grew up in NYC, not exactly by the seashore, and fried was definitely NOT my first exposure to fish or seafood. In fact, other than Mrs. Paul’s fish sticks I was a teenager before I ever had REAL fried fish, and that was on the west coast of Florida.
excuse me? Hunan Champion was not a chain. and even if it were, it is totally irrelevant to the business of raw fish.
the Red Sea is well known in this area. I am not adverse to trying things, but i would not go to a restaurant and pay money for a meal that might be hideous. So that kind of narrows my chances for trying stuff like that.
Good grief -— I was teasing. My comment was in reference to your discussion of PFChang’s Kung Pao chicken yesterday.
NYC is a darn sight closer to the seashore than Pittsburgh. Soother have you ever had the fried fish sammiches from Hoffstadts in Oakmont? i think marteen and i have discussed it before. GOOD.
I happen to love fried fish. It’s one of the few fried foods I do like.
Travis had commented upon fried clams and oysters, which are in a different category of fried seafood.
Bacon sushi
When I lived there Ethiopia was experiencing a famine. The joke was a meal at the Red Sea consisted of 2 grains of rice and a dead fly. It wasn’t quite that bad, but I’ve had much better meals I’ve cooked myself.
sorry. i just got out of an excruciatingly long staff meeting where my nerves were frayed by the end of it. i don’t care who you are, sushi is a dang yuppie FAD and i don’t see why everyone has their nose in the air about it being the end all and be all, when it is overpriced raw fish rolled up with some rice.
I asked the gentleman from Italy where to get the information I needed. He said “I donta know. Calamari, she’ll finda out fora you.”
Not me. I took Meat Science and Technology in school. I also don’t eat liver.
I'm telling you, I've been eating sushi in the US of A since before most yuppies were even a tingle in their daddies' pants. It's not new to this country. I ate it in BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA in 1973.
Was that part of some hazing ritual?
ROR!!!!!!
I understand.
Sushi becoming a FAD is what ruined it. I fell in love with sushi when I was still in tech school. There was a little Japanese place around the corner that a group of us used to go to about once a month or so. We were all used to eating in Chinatown, and so in comparison the Japanese place was outrageously expensive. Compared to the cost today, even that was dirt cheap.
During the late 1970’s, Japanese businesses started expanding to the United States, and more and more sushi restaurants opened to serve the Japanese businessmen living locally. Besides catering to the local Japanese, sushi chefs in the United States tried hard to introduce sushi to Americans, but it was difficult to persuade people to try eating raw fish. Soon, the California roll was invented, and sparked a new trend towards fusion sushi. The California roll was the perfect introductory sushi for people unfamiliar to raw fish. More and more Westerners started to eat raw fish and many adaptations were made to the Edo style sushi to adapt with western culture
But since we're on the subject of "gross" foods........
Suit against taco bell cites injury from swallowed bones
Some of the reader comments following the article are an absolute hoot!!!!
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