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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The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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)
CJ can mention whatever year and state he wants, this is a yuppie fad. not to say you couldn’t have your oddball here and there who had had sushi whenever. it was not widespread. it is STILL not commonplace everywhere in this country, though much more so than heretofore.
NYC has more beaches than Pittsburgh!
Never been to Oakmont. We’ve got Zackels in Claridge for primo fish sandwiches. That, and every mom and pop tavern in Western PA.
I had one piece of sushi, in Tokyo. Choked it down with some sake and said “no more of that.”
You can’t talk about miniature corn without everyone picturing Tom Hanks eating it, in Big.
A race to combat hunger? Wouldn’t it make more sense for her to eat a good meal to combat hunger?
No, if there’s hungry folks, they should run to where the food is. ;-)
never been to oakmont? wow. my gram lived in Verona and my aunt and uncle in oakmont. do you remember willie green? he used to post here and was a Yinzer. he knew hoffstadts.
and since i’m ranting, what IS the point with the little corn? ; )
there’s a luau for after the race for global hunger. there they get to eat on behalf of all the starving biafrans.
What can I tell you, I’m a food snob when it comes to chain restaurants. As a general rule I prefer to avoid them.
Not long ago I had a weird conversation with someone who insisted that this area is just ripe for a Red Lobster. I about choked. I can see RL somewhere in the midwest, but why in heaven’s name would someone, even a visiting tourist, want foreign seafood when they can get it freshly caught from local waters?
No. I did it so the dialysis nurse I was with would sleep with me.
You mean “if a factory closed anywhere in the country, post about it” Willie Green? ;-)
I’m the same way with the Olive Garden around here. Who would eat there when there are more real Italian restaurants than you can count?
You’re still talking about actual sushi, not using it as some clever metaphor?
while red lobster is inferior to regular seafood restaurants, pfchangs is superior to your run of the mill chinese restaurant in both quality of ingredients and preparation. a food snob familiar with pfchangs would not turn their nose up at it in favor of a regular chinese restaurant. soother’s mom and pop chinese restaurant has Kung Pao chicken which is obscured by the veggies, i posted a pic of pf changs which has only chicken and peanuts, scallions and the spicy red peppers. the meat is seared at a very high temp to seal in the moisture and it is rolled in some spicy coating, there is no sauce.
i thought it was rail transit that he had up his butt?
Please reread what I previously said...it becoming a FAD is what ruined it for people who did know it and enjoy it prior to it becoming a fad.
There is an art to real sushi and the trendiness of it has been the downfall of it.
It’s been years since I have had TRUE sushi, yet I enjoy raw clams and oysters on a regular basis. The key to it is the freshness of the fish or seafood. For the lack a source for the proper rice for sushi, I had that in Dover, I lean more toward seviche now.
Two sides. One was pro-maglev train (as proposed to run from Greensburg to the airport). The other was “another factory closed, we’re all doomed.”
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