TIL: Today I Learned

[s0nny80y]

this might be spam i hope not but here it goes today i learned:
when i google news https://news.google.com/news/sectio...p=2861f49a7b84b912c450a88c5b1d154fcb1e&ict=ln
i randomly get "the new cold war in the mediterranean
american enterprise institute - Feb 17"
cookies or jared cohen of the state department's google?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

TIL for sure the entire Midwestern United States is a food desert. I'll take grits over "meat" any day.

In the southeast U.S., food-desert dwellers posted a lot of bacon, brisket, and grits, while non-food-desert dwellers posted more peaches, beans, and collard greens. In the Midwest, food deserts were full of hamburgers, hot dogs, and the generic descriptor “meat,” while kale, turkey, and spinach were more popular outside of food deserts.

 

[Commodore]

TIL for sure the entire Midwestern United States is a food desert. I'll take grits over "meat" any day.

I'll take a "food desert" over any "non-food desert" as long as the non-food deserts are eating kale.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Yeah I know. This is from a food desert, apparently:

 

[Snerk]

Cooked right, kale is delicious. I've never tasted it raw though. Unfortunately I rarely see it in groceries hereabouts. Though spinach is a good enough substitute.

 

[sophie]

Cooked right, kale is delicious. I've never tasted it raw though. Unfortunately I rarely see it in groceries hereabouts. Though spinach is a good enough substitute.

Raw kale is bad. Tastes like grass. Really really chewy grass.

 

[warpus]

TIL that the French and other fancy people call little edible snacks with things on them "Canopies" (by watching this Danny Bhoy standup routine)

We just call them hors'dovervskeharkdsht over here as far as I know.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL: "Spaghetti" is plural. The word for a single stand of spaghetti is "spaghetto."

You're welcome.

 

[sophie]

TIL: "Spaghetti" is plural. The word for a single stand of spaghetti is "spaghetto."

You're welcome.

Yep. -i is the plural ending for masculine nouns. -e for feminine, so it's not pizzas, but rather pizze if you want to be technically correct.

 

[Takhisis]

But if you're speaking English the correct plural is pizzas.

 

[sophie]

But if you're speaking English the correct plural is pizzas.

But the plural of medium is media, criterion criteria, and cactus cacti?

English weird

 

[Takhisis]

Those were adapted in classical times.
Different plurals are used for different meanings of one word. It's a bit like the difference between ‘hanged’ and ‘hung’.
‘Mediums’ refers to those spiritist people. Many people say ‘cactuses’ rather than cacti.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Next thing you'll claim that many people say "rhinoceroses" rather than "rhinocerotes," or "octopuses" rather than "octopodes."

 

[Snerk]

Those were adapted in classical times.
Different plurals are used for different meanings of one word. It's a bit like the difference between ‘hanged’ and ‘hung’.
‘Mediums’ refers to those spiritist people. Many people say ‘cactuses’ rather than cacti.

I'm hanged like a donkey.

 

[Arakhor]

People are hanged; things are hung.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hoi hoi hoi polloi.

 

[warpus]

What is the singular form of Pierogi, in English?

 

[Arakhor]

I imagine that there is no singular form.

 

[warpus]

So what do you say if you find 1 of them in your fridge and you want to communicate that to someone? Surely English has a way of saying that.

 

[Daw]

What is the singular form of Pierogi, in English?

Because it's not an English word, its singular must be "pierog", like in e.g. Russian.

I mean, there're no "pierogi" in English to start with, they're an adoption through transliteration. There are "pies" to be the closest thing, semantically, but it isn't the same.