On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:30:23 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> On 2016-03-22 9:16 AM, wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:59:06 -0700, sf > wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:57:31 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:
> >>
> >>> Julie Bove wrote in rec.food.cooking:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> "Janet B" > wrote in message
> >>>> ...
> >>>>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:19:20 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> >>>>> > wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> snip
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Not only that but I think we did this before with Tater Tots
> >>>>>> where she kept insisting that they were croquettes. Perhaps it
> >>>>>> is another matter of calling something by a different name
> >>>>>> depending on where you live. I had to look something up last
> >>>>>> night because I was unfamiliar with the name. What made it even
> >>>>>> more odd was that it was a UK vegan dish but the real dish was
> >>>>>> thin slices of meat in a sauce. The vegan thing was a cheese
> >>>>>> dish and didn't even involve faux meat. But it said the American
> >>>>>> equivalent to the word was "scallop".
> >>
> >> escalope = scaloppa/scallopini
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You're thinking of someone else from another time from somewhere
> >>>>> else. I have never discussed tater tots in a group.
> >>>>> Janet US
> >>>>
> >>>> When I said, "we", I meant the collective we. I can't remember who
> >>>> it was but it did happen.
> >>>
> >>> Actually yes, it did. Not sure who was in on it.
> >>
> >> Who cares? It just goes to show how toxic this group has become that
> >> anyone would go after the Janets, the Nancys or even Koko. And it's
> >> not hard to understand how the cylindrical shape of a tater tot can be
> >> equated to a cylindrical croquette. Of course, this group doesn't
> >> cook, they just nit pick and complain all day long as if they're a
> >> bunch of cranky retired people. Oh, wait...
> >
> > Yes, wait, you're describing yourself!
> >
>
> I had difficulty appreciating the difference between croquettes and
> tater tots. They are both cylinders of potato. Once uses mashed and
> the other uses grated. Home fries and hash browns seem to have
> similarly blurry distinctions.
>
lucretiaborgia is a top tier example of someone who talks out her ass.

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