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I like it boiled and lightly salted, but I find butter unnecessary. I also like it out of a can and mixed with tuna mayo. Otherwise I don’t hardly use...

When you have too much celery, make soup or stew.

You’re an abomination.

If I make a tuna mayo sandwich I might add corn or spring onions. Does that make it “tuna salad”?

Tuna salad is tuna salad, tuna mayo is tuna mayo. I don’t know what goes in a tuna salad. Cucumbers, probably.

Tuna mayo is tuna mixed with mayonnaise, so “tuna mayo” seems like a good name for it.

I had chicken for dinner. https://youtu.be/QmMtIG0St64

Much appreciated. Don't blame the dashes. Blame the world.

I don’t really understand that distinction between Eurogames/German style and American style. But then, I’m not a board game geek like you. Not a boar...

Ornithophobe.

The main problem with those games is probably language-dependence. When I’m in Russia that can be an issue. The Russians don’t want to have to read a ...

I agree. I hope to try Wingspan some time. Meanwhile we’re still working through the various Carcassonne expansions. One of the best I’ve found for im...

There’s a whole world of amazing-looking board games out there which I haven’t explored. I was playing Carcassonne during the pandemic.

Looks great. I see there’s a European expansion.

By the way BC, it had nothing to do with refinement. I really just disliked the pancakes and had had too many of them by the end of the week. I don’t ...

Ah yes, I do too sometimes.

:cool: Clarky is the one who hates emojis. I think they're just dandy.

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No. Sounds quite nice. I'd try one.

I’m glad you got the point of the story. There is humour—but only in retrospect—in doing things you don’t want to do but which you know you should do,...

A friend of mine has started making savoury gram flour pancakes, since Mercadona started selling it. I’m thinking of trying it. Could be good with spi...

Some years ago I visited my Canadian girlfriend’s friends and family in Alberta and British Columbia, and they all proudly served up the traditional C...

I know what a flipping American-style pancake looks like! Jeez! So angry.

@"Noble Dust" Just to prove I’m not full of it: /uploads/resized/files/w4/nb953wx7udcnefse.jpeg

Muffins, I.e., what you call English muffins, are bread-like, whereas crumpets have a rubbery texture (I lied about fluffy).

We have them and we call them “pancakes” too. I don’t make the rules.

My crumpets are splendidly fluffy.

Just saying that outside North America, when we say “pancake” we’re referring to something you’d call a crepe.

Outside North America, a pancake just is a crepe.

Not all of them.

Thanks. Buckwheat porridge is extremely common in Russia too, as is buckwheat with beef.

You millennials and your hot takes.

I’m the coolest cat on the block.

I have no idea. I just wanted to disagree.

Thanks :up: Forget about udon and get some soba.

Since I have nothing to do with the browser extension, it’s best to report bugs here: Ignore list browser extension

I didn’t notice this bit.

It’s hidden on small screens because there are too many formatting icon buttons for the available screen width. The missing ones are: Italic Strikethr...

The ignore list browser extension cannot be used to ignore non-existent members. Either ask @"SophistiCat" to add that functionality, or just ignore t...

It's showing on the main page. Here is a direct link: Ignore list browser extension

You think?

Yes, that was unnecessary. I was probably just trying to wind you up. It's a Scottish tradition; you can take it. This is the issue and I think you're...

:up:

Pretty good joke, my floundering friend.

I'm not in Russia right now BTW

And when I say the things I've been saying it feels kinda wrong, in that I'm speaking from a position of privilege: the privilege of living in a liber...

I agree. But being strongly critical of politically ascendent religion is not the same as being critical of belief in God as such. Militant atheism se...

Some of the conversation here has got me thinking. In my extremely secular milieu, militant atheism seems ... silly. But in, say, the US Bible belt or...

Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch.

Absolutely. And this opens up a related can of worms. It turns out that there is no neat separation of reason and emotion, that in fact reason is not ...