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)
the Italian Cafe in Falls Church, a mom and pop local restaurant, is run by iranian immigrants. we don’t have the abundance of old ethnics here, but we have every stripe of new immigrant on the planet. The local Italian mom and pop joints in upstate NY where xshhub is from are fantastic. not so much down here.
That’s true, but not my point.
And here I thought those were gummi worm dispensers.
Ummmmm........Thank you. My point exactly.
There’s a pizza place around the corner from me (here in the boonies that means about 3 miles) that is just like home. Of course it would be considering the owners are from Brooklyn and her parents owned a pizza joint there.
But I will admit I always did like the soup and salad at Olive Garden. Of course I didn’t have much choice for Italian in Dover unless I made it myself :) (and I’m Irish)
One good thing about living cloes to Nuevo Haven is there is no paucity of good italian restaurants and delis!
Correct. No metaphors at this time.
Changs is very good - I agree Red Lobster sucks - it is the McDonalds of fish -
I'm just getting into Sushi and even had it for dinner last night - a spicy brown rice roll and Texas roll - sort of like a california roll but with jalapeno!
YUCK! SPAM falls into the “cylindrical meats” category, and is therefore inedible.
If I can get decent sushi in Helena, MT, Wichita, KS, New Braunfels, TX, Birmingham, AL and Evanshole, IN, it’s pretty frickin’ common. NONE of them are yuppie towns.
google sushi as yuppie fad. it is one.
OK, so Chang’s knows how to cook Kung Pao, so does the place I go to here in the middle of nowhere. The question is, can they do Mushu?
The thing to me is that there is a vast difference between a chain, a regular, and a REAL (insert type of cuisine) restaurant. Be it Chinese, Mexican, Indian, or seafood or whathaveyou.
I spent years eating in Chinatown in NY and so I am really snobby about Chinese food. I’m also snobby about Indian food, and have become really so when it comes to Mexican or other Latin American cuisines. I’m really getting into Guatemalan tamales :)
We don’t eat as much oriental food as we used to because I no longer have the sources for ingredients I had in Dover. We eat far more Latina American food because of the easy access to the ingredients. Where you live you can probably pick the cuisine you enjoy and have access to all the ingredients. I make do with what I have available.
LMAO! I must be a yuppie. ROFLMAOPIMP!!!
OH, what I give for a good Italian Salumeria!!!!!!!! Or even a real Jewish bakery.
Not a cylinder, it’s a rectangle.
the point is, Changs doesn’t oversauce or fill dishes with vegetables, which is very common in chinatown restaurants. what i objected to was you equating Pfchangs with a panda express drive thru chinese restaurant or the place where Travis the yuppie eats at the mall. ; )
In the 90s, the Steelers parted ways with a linebacker and his wife made a snooty comment about how she couldn’t even get decent sushi here. We took it as a badge of honor.
well exactly. not saying you can’t get sushi in Pgh, bc it is such a FAD that they probably have it, but it is not commonplace among the non-yuppy set ; )
I’m not saying PFChang’s isn’t any good, I can’t I’ve never been there. I’m just expressing my opinion in regard to chains in general.
It won’t be quite the same using long grain rice, but I just might have to try making some rolls of some sort here again soon. I’ve got to do something with all the rice I have in the house. I totally forgot I had a 10 pound bag and proceeded to not only buy another 10# bag of regular rice, but I also bought a 5# bag of Jasmine rice.
LOL! well you can see why i jumped ugly with you when you dissed my favorite restaurant, with you knowing nothing about it and never having been! food snobbery is really no more attractive than any other sort!
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