Posted on 12/17/2012 5:00:31 AM PST by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 12/17/12
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".
soupcon; noun . Click here to hear it pronounced.
a slight trace, as of a particular taste or flavor.
Etymology: 1760–70; < French: a suspicion, Middle French sospeçon < Late Latin suspectiōn- (stem of suspectiō ), for Latin suspīciō suspicion
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
You are obsessed with that freakish little elf!
ññç...heh, heh, heh...
Um Juan Valdez is NOT Panamanian. When did panama get into the coffee biz? ; ) and I understand CULANTRO tastes like A$$ ; )
I’m sure Panama is nice, until another “strongman” comes along.
Done running an errand and caulking doors-
Hillary doesn’t want to be
Under Obama’s bus once more-
Her party tossed her there in ‘08
And wants her there once more
To avoid seeing those axles again
Especially in this happy season
Just a soupcon of a concussion
Should be good enough a reason
With Bill there to back her up
She won’t have to take a real fall-
She’s bailing soon, so what she needs
Is just a short-term stall...
Excellent!a++++
Isn’t Juan Valdez from Columbia-like in that old coffee commercial?
Thank you! And line 4 of the first verse should read “And wants her there like before”...
I don’t think I’ve ever tasted culantro, but I grow cilantro, and use it in salad, soup, pico de gallo and beans.
I’ve never tasted ass, either, but the thought of an herb being described like that is sort of repulsive...
Get it? Culo...culantro?
That’s my point! Colombia is renowned for coffee, I’ve never even heard that Panama grew coffee, let alone best in the world!
These "diacritical" marks come from the French, so first you'll have to spell them the way the French spell them, not the way they pronounce them.
Your aigu is actually acute. As in per sé.
You write p e r s & e acute ;
per sé
.
Next, grave is okay, just write r & e grave ; s u m & e acute ;
Rèsumé
Okay?
The news is depressing....Santa, the elf, whatever it takes to keep me happy. I even joined Pinterest since the election. How desperate is that? I am a fiend at WsFs. Anything but the news...until after the holidays.
Panama has grown high-quality Arabicas since at least 1908. The soil near Baru in Chiriqui province, is very nearly perfect for coffee, as is the climate. There are a couple of plantations at which you can buy fresh beans JUST WHEN they are packed (on-site, of course). Amazing coffee.
Whoever told you that about culantro either A) has thoroughly dysfunctional taste buds, or B) is more dishonest than Eric Holder, or C) both. Lovely, tasty herb.
The socialists will probably succeed Martinelli (current prez). However, the country has prospered so much in recent years, and so much to the benefit of the ordinary citizen, that I really don't fancy any severe changes coming quickly, no matter who wins the election in 2014. Panama had a bellyful of Noreiga (and a couple of lesser-known idiots). They won't be signing up (or voting) for similar idiots for quite a little time, I should think.
Are we forgetting that Panama once was part of Colombia?
I have no idea what cilantro or culantro tastes like. Wouldn’t know it if it bit me on my ass.
Missed that one completely-but I’ve had people-including MrT5-complain about the smell or taste of condiments and/or salad stuff-I’ve heard-arugula tastes like peppered, bitter spinach, likewise radicchio, cilantro tastes like aftershave-that from a friend of mine-never did figure it out, and one of my favorite spices for soup and stew- comino-smells like dirty socks.
Cilantro doesn’t grow where you are? It is an annual which grows best in cool weather, so only March till June and late September till frost (about mid November) here.
Cilantro doesn’t grow where you are? It is an annual which grows best in cool weather, so only March till June and late September till frost (about mid November) here.
Fiend? Really? ; )
Nope, but the coffee farms are in the Andes.
Let me amplify my statement. I not only have no idea what cilantro tastes like, I have no idea what it looks like, I’ve never heard of anyone growing it around here and I probably didn’t even know it existed 15 years ago.
Now I see that it’s also known as “coriander.” That sounds more like something I knew existed when I was a child, but I still have no idea what it tastes like.
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