(OT) Re:Why english is important
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Jan 13 19:39:27 UTC 2007
| From: Evan Leibovitch <evan-ieNeDk6JonTYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org>
| This past weekend, I was shopping for Calrose (short grain) rice, the
| kind used for sushi making.
Learn something new every day. I vaguely thought Calrose was a brand
name. Wikipedia says it is a variety of medium-grain rice. We call it
short grain.
We generally get Kokuho Rose from California http://www.kodafarms.com/
That seems to be both a variety of rice AND a brand name. Confusing.
| At the T&T Asian supermarket in Promenade Mall, I purchased an 8kg bag
| of Tiger King brand rice. Not only was it inexpensive, but the colorful
| use of language in its description won me over (transcribed verbatim,
| including caps and punctuation):
Beware of agricultural products from China. Their use of pesticides
and "nightsoil" is not controlled as well as in the first world.
| PS: I highly recommend a trip to one of Toronto's T&T supermarkets; this
| ain't no Loblaws.
It's way more like Loblaws than other asian food stores we have been
to. It is larger and cleaner and more anglophone. We like it.
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