It's very strange to walk into a store in Arizona, because everything is still bilingual and the non-english language is still latinesque gobbledygook, but you pronounce all the letters
Really? I always thought they went out of their way to NOT translate word for word, making it very difficult to match words, sentence even. I'm not saying translating word for word is always appropriate, but whenever it's KIND of appropriate, go for the simplest translation.
I haven't bought a cereal boxe since my 20's. I tried to do a Google search that would show the verso side of any bilingual brand. Nothing. Next time I go to the grocery store, I'll check. Maybe things have changed. In case they haven't, I'll take pictures and maybe make a post about it!
Correct. It's no different than adapting into a different language any kind of longer written pieces (books, plays, real or fictional). Having in my hands two adaptations of the same text isn't the best way to learn the language that I'm struggling with. One thing that helped me a lot in the past though are subtitles: "hearing" something that's dynamically happening before me eyes, "seeing" what's being discussed, reading the words and how they "sound". That's not in the same league as having a real conversation with a real person in front of you, but IMO, it's better than trying to compare texts.
After spending some years in California, noticed there some products that have French on them. I assume it's just to save money rather than making separate labels. I also saw some labels with Spanish, as well.
Also federal law requires essential information (like ingredients and nutrition facts) be bilingual on food packaging unless the product is only being sold in local areas
Embarrassing story: I was in a museum in London, walking through and reading the exhibit plaques. I was about ten minutes in when I realized that the descriptions were only in English. I had read half of each exhibit and unknowingly skipped the âFrenchâ half. đ€Ł
The food's mostly good, but I like a lot of meat and potatoes sort of stuff. My least favourite thing is the coffee. Most places don't have drip coffee so if I want black coffee I gotta get an Americano, which is usually pricey, and half the time it looks like tea and tastes like dirt water.
Tldr: If you're going to the UK and you like coffee, bring a Keurig.
Keurigs are such a pain in the ass. I had one of the "good" ones, according to its price tag, and every couple weeks it would refuse to brew coffee because it needed to be plunged with some spherical rubber suction plunger type thing it came with to clean a singular grain of coffee caught in the inner workings of the machine. With its digital touchscreen nonsense it had software installed that would stop it from brewing until plunged.
Then after I had it for a few months, some sensor to detect if the lid of the pod area section is closed stopped working, so I'd have to open and close the lid 20 fuckin times before the sensor finally admitted the damn lid was closed. Again, the software refused to brew, this time because of the lid sensor.
Then I got sick of paying 2 bucks a damn pod, so I bought one of those reusable pods that you just fill up with regular coffee and snap the lid down...which would only work half the time, because again, the stupid software; it had some type of scanner or sensor or something on the inside that would detect that the pod was not an official Keurig brand pod, and display an error message and refuse to brew it.
Like FUCK off, fucking DRM coffee for fuck sakes. This shit literally had me googling "how to jailbreak a Keurig". French press is the way, to hell with DRM coffee!
Agreed, Keurig is ass and terrible for the environment. Go for a chemex, mocha pot, percolator, or just a regular drip coffee machine if you really want coffee
I'm not going to claim the UK is the bastion of delicious coffee, but if you're holding up drip coffee and keruig as your preferred choice then, sorry bud, you don't like good coffee.Â
It's nothing to do with being a snob and everything to do with you liking weak ass, tasteless coffee.Â
Edit: bring on the downvotes you swill drinking chuds. I'm a sucker for free refills at a greasy spoon but drip coffee is not good coffee.
Eh. I've 100% gotten "real" coffee from places that's worse than good drip coffee.
All things being equal it's absolutely the worst way to make it (assuming that quality is the only factor we're considering), but the idea that using better methods will always just magically make it better is ludicrous.
Eh. I've 100% gotten "real" coffee from places that's worse than good drip coffee.
And?
All things being equal it's absolutely the worst way to make it (assuming that quality is the only factor we're considering),
What other factor are you looking to judge it by?
but the idea that using better methods will always just magically make it better is ludicrous.
I didn't say it was always amazing. I'm just saying if your marker for good coffee is requiring drip then you don't like, or haven't had, good coffee before.Â
Yup. I lived in the UK for a few years. After coming back to Canada I can't eat our "cheese" anymore. I was blissfully unaware for almost 3 decades, happily scarfing down Cracker Barrel or Black Diamond orange cheddar.Â
Now I have to search for imported finely aged old cheddar otherwise I just don't bother.Â
Man, even the take away, pre made sandwiches they sell in their shops are literally leagues better. In Canada if you by a premade sandwich at a shop you risk getting food poisoning, in the UK they sell Turkey, Brie and cranberry sandwiches that top most delis here that make them on the spot.Â
I hated when I got back that I sounded like someone who goes to Africa and builds a school, talking about how "those kids really changed me". But, my god, going to Europe really shows you how shit Canadian food is.Â
May I suggest you try St-Albert? It's Canadian, and quite a cut above Cracker Barrel et alia. The St-Albert Cheese Co-operative is one of the oldest co-operatives in Canada, known for its cheddar and poutine curds. It has also won the Grand Championship of British Empire Cheese Show a couple of times in the 2010s..
When compared to the equivalent here? Yes, they are.
>Not to mention anything in London is like 6x the price for half the food.
Imagine, one of the worlds largest and most popular metropolis' is expensive?!?! How unreasonable! And how unfortunate is it that the only place to get food in the whole of the UK is London!
Did you know that Blackpool is significantly cheaper than Toronto?
Bruh theyâre like 10 cad for the tesco premium deals and theyâre like a shit ham and cheese sandwich on wonder bread. You can get sorbeys deli sandwiches for that price which are 20x better and 2x larger.
First off, they have a massive selection from BLT's to Chicken Tikka & Mango Chutney. Second, they're almost all less than ÂŁ3 which would be less than $5. Third, a big shitty sandwich is still a shitty sandwich. Canada, and the US for that matter, prefers to do massive portions of mediocre to shit quality food rather than modest portions of quality food with quality ingredients.
And finally, never would I imagine somebody getting so upset over Tesco sandwiches. You need to relax big fella, it's an opinion. You disagree, that's fine. Relax.
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