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.
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
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)
They have great breadsticks. I'll give them that much.
our first house was between two Italian families........now THAT was good food. we never went without real Italian for long....as soon as the good smells came out of their kitchen windows I was headed over to check it out. LOL
I’ve seen the copycat recipe for dandan noodles and plan to try it one day.....For my TexMex stuff, I grind my taco meat before adding the sauce. Everyone makes fun of it until they try it themselves - then they come back and tell me how good it is!
Say what? Isn't it kind of hard to gind it afterwards?
All the more reason you should be looking at places in Chinatown instead. Even at the inflated prices of the DC area you could probably feed the entire family and have buckets of leftovers for about 40bucks.
Granted I’m talking about nearly 30 years ago, but when we used to go to Chinatown in NYC, 12 of us could drink copious quantities of Chinese beer and stuff ourselves full for several hours for $120 including a very generous tip. Even in 1980, dining in Manhattan was NOT cheap, unless you knew where to go.
i think it would be inferior. i am interested in what we think TASTES GOOD, irrespective of price and authenticity. i have eaten in chinatown lotsa times and i just don’t think it’s all that.
To be honest, it really wasn’t until I was in college that I truly was able to experience just what NYC offered in the lines of ethnic foods.
Maybe that’s why I’ve become such a food snob. While I realize it is wrong to speak ill of the dead, my mother was just plain lousy when it came to anything worthwhile from the kitchen. I was forced to learn how to cook in order to have anything to eat that had any taste once my grandmother moved to Florida. Some of my favorite recipes are not from my mother, but my own recreations of my grandmother’s best dishes.
I also don't like to eat at potluck type of deals because I don't trust that most people are clean - I know I am, and know I wash my hands a lot while preparing a meal - can't trust other weirdos though... ;^)
i can’t be a food snob, because i realize so much of how someone looks at food and what tastes good to them is a function of how they were raised and what they have been exposed to. i can’t say what should or shouldn’t be the BEST of anything because it all comes down to taste and so to be a snob is to somehow exalt your own tastes over those of others.
If it’s been there for 50 years and all the customers haven’t dropped dead by now, chances are they know what they’re doing.
well that was ti’s point about the italian places in her neck of the wood and honest to God i know the chinese places lack hygiene. that is one of the best parts of PFchangs is that it is so clean and high quality. so authentic chinese cooked outside where someone is urinating may be the MOST authentic, doesn’t mean i want to eat it. and i found out that the place i LOVED that went out of business, Hunan Champion near our old house, the old guy would be outside with pots and there were people urinating the health dept had to be called to fumigate the place once they went out. i know this bc my frame shop is right next door and after it was gone, they told me all of this. i was horrified.
you don’t necessarily die of dysentary....
I agree with you, I wouldn’t eat food in China either right now.
There was a thread the other day (when I was still have puter problems, which I still am) from someone looking for a source of garlic powder not from China. I found the thread interesting. I so rarely use garlic powder that I never even thought about it, so I looked at the jar of it that I do have in the pantry. Not only is it a product of USA, it is specifically from California. The quart jar of shopped garlic I have in the fridge is also from CA, but that is something I always do pay attention to.
Nice “beauty queen” answer. LOL.
Of course, tastes can differ, but you can’t pretend that all choices are equal. A Morton’s steak is going to be better than one from Ponderosa.
People don’t keep going back for 50 years to places that make them sick. Once or twice is a coincidence. Every time for 50 years is a conspiracy.
which is precisely why PFchangs is better than any chinatown joint! quality ingredients prepared in a clean environment, cooked to perfection.
you don’t know my brothers family. honest to God, someone is always getting the trots, and i know Red Lobster is a HUGE offender for them in that regard. so last weekend was my middle niece’s 19th bday and where to they go? red lobster. we do not get diarrhea from places we eat, they are ALWAYS having some issue.
ROFL!!!!!!!!!
From scratch Mac n Cheese was one of the few things my mom did well when I was growing up. Unfortunately my kid prefers mac n cheese out of a box and doesn't like my homemade :(
Until I took over the cooking in our house, Dad was the one who did the cooking. What he cooked was great, but he had a limited repertoire so we knew it was sausage and peppers on Wednesday, Roast beef on Sunday, shepherds pie on Tuesday, etc.......
and my beauty queen answer was making excuses for your FREAKISH antiveggie stance, since i am basically blaming your mother for it!
You just hit on the entire point.......what you think tastes good.
Taste in food, like anything else, is all subjective.
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