• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I was watching an episode of QI once, and one of the panelists was talking about a phrase in Greek that literally translates to, “There is trouble in the Gypsy village,” and is apparently used to indicate something like, “Who gives a shit?” Idioms are a very interesting part of language.

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    This image probably scares americans. on the left because they fear for their children and on the right because they can’t afford it.

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      Wait until they hear the one on the right wasn’t in the fridge 🙀

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        Americans do a lot of foolish things, but refrigerating their eggs is not one of them.

        There is a good reason: eggs are washed before they’re sold in the US, which removes the egg’s cuticle (a natural protective coating). This process reduces the risk of bacterial contamination, and, when combined with refrigeration, extends the shelf life of the egg. That matters in a country with a distributed population as geographically vast as the U.S., where food often travels longer distances before reaching the consumer. Refrigerating eggs is a solution to a logistical challenge not present in Europe.

        I like to point this out because a European unaware of this difference might visit America, refuse to refrigerate their eggs (believing their own cultural practices to be superior and more “natural”) and end up with salmonella. It’s ironic because getting sick in another country due to ignorance of local customs, while assuming your own culture is better, is a very American thing to do. I guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

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          As an American, I heard that the euros don’t refrigerate their eggs. And I thought “well that’s good… One less thing to refrigerate!” And I stopped doing it about 15 years ago.

          I have not had salmonella once. Worst case is that about once every two years, I crack a rotten egg into my breakfast scramble and it smells like Satan’s hangover farts. But ya know, ya win some, ya lose some.

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            If you can get local fresh eggs you might not need to refrigerate them. We get them from a relative who has a few chickens and more eggs than they can eat to share.

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              Totally down with that idea. I want to have chickens in my back yard, but I spend a lot of time out of town, so I’d need to figure out how to get my housemates to take care of them when I’m not around.

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          I don’t get it. We tend to think of raw animal products as either exotic or gross (French steak tartare, Korean yookhwe, Italian carpaccio, German mett, etc). Even filet Américain, despite its name, is something most Americans have never heard of. We don’t really have our own equivalent to these dishes. Maybe over-easy eggs?

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        I’m from Europe, and while I know I don’t need to have my eggs in the fridge I do so anyways. I don’t think that the cold will hurt. Maybe they will last even longer!

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          Same, once they have been cold their protective coating can suffer, so keep that in mind and don’t leave them out at a later time.

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            Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. Although, I don’t really have any other place to keep them than my fridge, so they’ll probably stay there.

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    According to to different translators:

    “That’s not the yellow of the egg”

    “It’s not exactly the bee’s knee”

    “can’t cut the mustard”

    “not exactly brilliant”

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    beloved alternatives my mom usually drops:

    “das ist nicht die Wucht in Tüten” (this ain’t the might in bags)

    “damit kann man keinen Blumentopf gewinnen” (one won’t win a planting pot for that)

    “das lockt niemanden vom ofen hervor” (nobody will be lured from behind the oven with that)

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      In Danish you might say “that’s not something to yell hurrah over” or “that’s not exactly something you would write home about”

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      Like, just for fun or is there an occasion for the last one because I want to use it to insult my dear friend’s souffles

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        usually my mom uses the first when things/tools/equipment/objects do not work like they intended to do. or simply if she expected more the second one is is usually if someone or something looks ugly or if someone missbehaved or did something wrong. the third is mostly used when something is very ugly, of bad quality, just like in you case, tastes bad

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    I love the German word verbesserungsbedürftig, meaning ‘in need of improvement’.

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        I was trying to figure out wtf it was, I have a strong suspicion now … my fellow countryman are fuckin idiots and this is another example of that bullshit “land of the free”… fuckin idiots can’t even enjoy a candy with a toy in it property without regulations and prohibition

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          That’s a regulation I actually support. Our fellow citizens are too stupid to not choke one the fake yoke.

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            I read somewhere that they have some rule like you can’t put “not food” inside “food”.

            Probably a reasonable rule in many cases. Maybe they should put a tiny hole in it and argue that the “shell” is mathematically a single plane with the ‘inside’ being between the inner and outer face.

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            I’m not sure what would be it’s competition but they do sell an equivalent but it’s a sad disappointment from what is available outside the US, so I am told. Maybe one day I will buy one and find out.

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          On one hand I initially thought you were crazy to think that. On the other hand I hate those haribo burger things because they give me the ick. So I guess we aren’t totally unalike.

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          It’s probably not comouter generated. It’s a kinder surprise egg that has a yellow plastic container with a toy inside of a chocolate egg.

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            Probably because I’m vegan and eggs already creep me out. What looks like a coconut with a misshapen yolk gives me bad vibes regardless of whether the image is computer generated or not.

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      Not at all, OP is very imprecise. It means something like 'It’s not amazing/the best", usually followed up with “but it’s all-right/will do for now”.