Rewatched with sound = 100 times worse.
“Spaghetti sticks, or spaghetti, or whatever you want to call it”
I felt physically ill when she started pouring whatever that mixture was onto it.
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I’m not a big fan of these kind of shows and only made it this far because I was multitasking, but 3:13 is good.
Yeah that was funny, though the contestants are obviously hamming it up and can’t approach that British woman for authentically useless coooking.
For me #1 cuisine is Mexico. But it’s also the one I have the most broad exposure to.
@suzzer I feel like what you’re identifying as greek/middle eastern may be better described as eastern Mediterranean or something like that. Essentially Greece, Turkey, and the Levant.
I’m not sure where to rank my favorite African cuisines, but my friend’s family hosts an annual Taste of Liberia at their home which is incredible(must enjoy spicy to appreciate) and Ethiopian food has never disappointed me.
I spent a week in Beijing and I didn’t like the food very much at all. The best meal, and it was very good, was various dumplings and broth/soup at a little place our guide (paid for by my work for the day - I never hire guides even to my own detriment) brought us to for lunch between visiting Forbidden City and the Great Wall.
I’ve been told food in other parts of China can be very different and very good.
Spain too low, imo. It’s too bad people lump Basque food in with Spanish because it’s different and it’s amazing.
Maybe John Lewis should get his own thread. I’m posting this here because I don’t want it to get sucked into whatever is going on in the Trump thread. This is a fascinating Twitter thread.
https://twitter.com/studentactivism/status/1284472208006545408
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The way these sorts of maps are done, if they’re done in some sort of systematic fashion and not just made up, is not by the most popular X, but by the most unusually popular X. So, like, the top 10 are like the top 10 everywhere, so they’re not unusually popular anywhere, so they’re nowhere on the map. Then, you’re already deep down the list of things and looking at random fluctuations of rare events.
That makes sense. I woulda assume foot and bdsm are top two in every state.
Can someone explain to me like I’m 5 years old why we have a coin shortage? I can’t understand why people are hoarding change (even if unintentionally).
It’s unintentional. Nobody uses change. It’s a total waste. Nearly everyone comes home each day and dumps all their change in a jar. Those jars fill and get taken to the bank. Money is used on things like vacations. Nobody is going to the bank or taking vacations. Jars just keep filling.
So the reason is that people aren’t going to the bank?
But somehow they went out to get the change in the first place?
And if everyone is so hard up because they’re unemployed, I figure using change would become more necessary than under normal conditions.
They don’t get the change on purpose. It just accumulates each day when you buy stuff.
This is of course just my theory.
I got that, but it indicates that they’re leaving the house. So it would seem that an additional stop at the bank or one of those coinstar machines wouldn’t really be that big a deal. Heck, many grocery stores have them right as you walk in.
I suppose it may increase their risk of infection very slightly, but most people aren’t that particular about social distancing that they are going to minimize all unnecessary activities outside the house no matter how minor. Especially in USA#49.
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That a good point that blows a bit of a hole on my theory. Lol
The US Mint isn’t producing as many coins and people are adopting more contactless, cashless payment methods. No one’s using coins to get groceries delivered, for example.
Banks have shut down their lobbies. More cash-heavy businesses like restaurants have been harder hit by the virus. Think about all the places that have a “take a penny, leave a penny” dish. There are coins out there, they’re just not circulating. And the government isn’t producing the excess coins that avoid the appearance of bottlenecks.
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I think that’s it. How do coins circulate? People mostly get them in change from retail, they accumulate them and eventually take them to the bank. Retail stores have to go to the bank to get coins. They surely routinely run a deficit of coins. People aren’t going to the bank to deposit or coinstar or w/e. Coins are accumulating in jars at people’s homes.
That and/or slowdown at the mint.
People using cards more would help retailers hold onto coins I think.