Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Cadence]

Open sandwich = subset of sandwich.
Therefore pizza is a (subset of) sandwich.

Calzone is just a regular sandwich.

Cannoli can't be sushi unless it has seafood in it.

Is Kappa Maki not sushi?

 

[trappedslider]

The nerve of players people getting their start on pineapple pizza and liking how it taste and thus sticking with it instead of quickly moving on.

 

[trappedslider]

Now I want a sci-fi book where instead of using a time machine to stop Hitler, they use it to stop the first oil well and put in place environmental regulations that folks won't understand for a long time. Or something like that....

So i realized I have read a book like that it's called Past watch by Orson Scott Card. The basic plot is that in the future they can view the past and things are on a downward spiral it's estimated that the humanity only has a few years left before a large chunk of them dies to a stabilization point but that won't matter since all of the easy to get resources are already used up. The main characters via the past watch device quickly realize that the timeline they are in is a replacement for an even nastier one (for example human sacrifice was still practiced far into the future), this leads them to realize that they can use the device they use to view the past as an actual time machine and they choose to go back to 1492 and change things.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Cannoli can't be sushi unless it has seafood in it

As I understand it, “sushi” refers to the RICE, not what is served on/in it.

 

[Hussar]

As I understand it, “sushi” refers to the RICE, not what is served on/in it.

This. Sui is Japanese for vinegar. Which is mixed with the rice to make sushi.

I mean I had roast beef sushi Saturday.

 

[Alzrius]

Sui is Japanese for vinegar.

In point of fact, the kanji for vinegar (which is 酢) is "su." "Sui" is usually a pronunciation for 水 ("water"), though that's the on reading, and so is usually only pronounced that way when combined with another kanji.

 

[payn]

Pffffft.

The Texas power grid gets as trustworthy as Andy Dick on angel dust if it gets too hot OR too cold. We had a series of blackouts yesterday that derailed my family’s entire evening.

…and our governor approved all kinds of sweetheart deals for bitcoin mining companies. The taxpayers are even paying the miners to slow or cease mining during power outages.

I believe it was Rick Perry who said y'all would rather sit in the dark than join the national power grid.

 

[Reynard]

I love burritos. They are delicious. But if I was eating burritos with someone, and they opened their up and examined it like they were on CSI, picking it apart and naming every component, noting where some bits were a little underdone or where some taco meat got mixed in with the chicken, I don't think my apatite for my own burrito would be quite the same.

 

[payn]

I love burritos. They are delicious. But if I was eating burritos with someone, and they opened their up and examined it like they were on CSI, picking it apart and naming every component, noting where some bits were a little underdone or where some taco meat got mixed in with the chicken, I don't think my apatite for my own burrito would be quite the same.

I've got a buddy who is like a Sommelier, but for food. Every time we go out he dissects how the kitchen is run and points out all the errors in technique and short cuts. "Taste that coconut note? Thats them using a cheap oil to toast the bread..." Sometimes thats good if im evaluating a place, but other times I just want to eat and go.

 

[Umbran]

As I understand it, “sushi” refers to the RICE, not what is served on/in it.

Looking up the history, it is a little more complicated than that.

The ancestral dish was probably (transliterated as) "narezushi" which was fish fermented in rice for preservation. The resulting dish was sour, and the term "sushi" means "sour tasting" - which today is reflected in the use of a small amount of vinegar in the rice.

But, to say that the current term "sushi" refers to the rice would be like saying the modern term "pizza" refers to the bread. While historically, there's a reference to an ingredient there, in modern use it is the name of the overall dish.