At the salad bar at Yale

[George K]

Last week.

Now.

[jon-nyc]

More ignorance at Yale. Israeli Couscous isn't even technically couscous, it's is a toasted pasta ball that dates from the 1950s, engineered to have higher protein than it's ancient antecedent. It is much larger than the original couscous, which is often called "Moroccan couscous" on American menus.

There are other types of couscous in the Levant which are not Israeli couscous but still have that larger size. So often times you'll see any larger couscous called Israeli Couscous, with the finer, more granular version called Morrocan Couscous.

I've seen Israeli couscous called Middle Eastern Couscous before, which is probably more accurate if what you really mean is "large pearly couscous'. I think that name is fine unless you make the change in response to the prejudices of idiot undergrads.

[Copper]

In a statement to Newsweek, a spokesperson for the school confirmed that "Israeli" was removed but that it will be reinstated.

https://www.newsweek.com/yale-removed-israeli-couscous-name-dining-hall-1851822

I looked it up because I thought it might be fake.

[Renauda]

I can remember a time when French fries were, for some unknown reason, renamed “Freedom Fries”.

Thankfully it never caught on beyond a small minority. I doubt this initiative will either.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Renauda said in At the salad bar at Yale:

I can remember a time when French fries were, for some unknown reason, renamed “Freedom Fries”.

It was hilarious that those dipshits had no idea which country was so instrumental in helping their country attain the freedom they were so obsessed about.

[Copper]

@Renauda said in At the salad bar at Yale:

for some unknown reason

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.

https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/

It was hilarious that those dipshits had no idea which country was so instrumental in helping their country attain the freedom they were so obsessed about.

All 3 House cafeterias.

There was probably someone in those cafeterias who was familiar with US History.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Copper said in At the salad bar at Yale:

@Renauda said in At the salad bar at Yale:

for some unknown reason

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.

https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/

It was hilarious that those dipshits had no idea which country was so instrumental in helping their country attain the freedom they were so obsessed about.

All 3 House cafeterias.

There was probably someone in those cafeterias who was familiar with US History.

I see you were on the bandwagon as well, eh?

[Copper]

I enjoy teaching history sometimes.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Copper said in At the salad bar at Yale:

I enjoy teaching history sometimes.

I'd maybe get the degree first.

[jon-nyc]

By the way, Moroccan couscous is better. That’s not just my opinion, it’s an objective fact.

[Renauda]

@Copper said in At the salad bar at Yale:

@Renauda said in At the salad bar at Yale:

for some unknown reason

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.

https://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/sprj.irq.fries/

It was hilarious that those dipshits had no idea which country was so instrumental in helping their country attain the freedom they were so obsessed about.

All 3 House cafeterias.

There was probably someone in those cafeterias who was familiar with US History

I knew that, I would not have mentioned it without first doing my homework to jog my memory of the details. I just wanted to elicit the predictable and much anticipated flag waving reaction from you.

[Rainman]

I'm sorry guys, but you are all wrong.
couscous are those tiny little round beige tastless things they put in some Campbell soups.
I suppose one could mold them like a snowball and fry them, right?
They're just filler or a substitute for rice, or tossed into a salad as it's something to count.
Yeah I know, Mik and some of you cooks are shaking your heads in disgust.
Well, We all have our culinary sources, mine happen to be pragmatic I guess.

[Renauda]

@Rainman

I believe you are confusing pearl barley with couscous.

And no, beyond spaghetti sauce and tuna casserole I am not much of a cook. Hate making salads - too much like garden work.

[Copper]

@Renauda said in At the salad bar at Yale:

wanted to elicit the predictable and much anticipated flag waving

tricky

[Renauda]

But you fell for it, all the same.

[Doctor Phibes]

On one of his many visits to try and teach George W Bush how to use the English language, Tony Blair should probably have told them that the correct term is 'chips', and if America hadn't conspired with the despicable French against their British betters all those years ago, they wouldn't be making that mistake now.

[Renauda]

Up here we are at liberty to refer to them as (French) fries or just, fries, frites or chips. I of course, being big on the Empire and all that good tradition stuff, choose the latter, and refer to them as chips.