The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[Gradine]

All this hand-wringing makes me think this must be an incredibly special vase!

 

[trappedslider]

Or a different kind of cash battle....a more charitable money fight:

"Yeah? Well I'm so rich, I paid off all student debt in America, you clown! With my spending allowance!"

"Oh yeah?! Well I'm gonna pay off all child medical debt, you poseur! With the spare change I found in my Tesla."

"You can't do that!"

"Hide and watch, douchebag! And then I'm gonna fund a bunch of cancer research, because that's just how rich and powerful I am!"

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If your thread is going to be full of unexplained jargon and require going to multiple other sites to know what you're talking about, your goal isn't really about helping other people as you say, now is it?

 

[RealAlHazred]

If your thread is going to be full of unexplained jargon and require going to multiple other sites to know what you're talking about, your goal isn't really about helping other people as you say, now is it?

Not at all! I'm helping people... find my site! And I'm helping the people running my site... by driving traffic! I'm just being extra helpful, all around!

 

[trappedslider]

Pompeii fresco shows pizza precursor -- but hold the cheese

Even the ancient Romans liked their pizza. Archaeologists in Pompeii said Tuesday they had found depicted on an ancient fresco the precursor to the modern-day pizza -- but without the cheese and tomatoes.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Deset Gled]

Pompeii fresco shows pizza precursor -- but hold the cheese

Even the ancient Romans liked their pizza. Archaeologists in Pompeii said Tuesday they had found depicted on an ancient fresco the precursor to the modern-day pizza -- but without the cheese and tomatoes.

www.yahoo.com

"... but without cheese and tomatoes". Maybe because it would be at least 1500 years before tomatoes made it to that continent?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

"... but without cheese and tomatoes". Maybe because it would be at least 1500 years before tomatoes made it to that continent?

It always amuses me when "purists" insist that "real" Italian food is only what they made in Europe, as though what everyone -- including most Italians -- think of as Italian food requires imports from the New World and Asia.

"Authenticity" is a myth. Culture is always in motion; you're just picking the nano-second you want to identify as the "real" culture.

 

[overgeeked]

It always amuses me when "purists" insist that "real" Italian food is only what they made in Europe, as though what everyone -- including most Italians -- think of as Italian food requires imports from the New World and Asia.

"Authenticity" is a myth. Culture is always in motion; you're just picking the nano-second you want to identify as the "real" culture.

Exactly. Cultures are constantly in flux. Tastes change over time, new technologies added, old technologies dropped, new ingredients added, old ingredients dropped, and there's endless cultural exchange.

 

[Ryujin]

"... but without cheese and tomatoes". Maybe because it would be at least 1500 years before tomatoes made it to that continent?

"They held fruit too near the pizza and so were punished."

 

[J.Quondam]

"They held fruit too near the pizza and so were punished."

Perhaps it was pineapple that pushed Nero over the edge.