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Post #411 by Yendor 6/29/01 9:59:02 AM Reply	Hmmm... Leave out the curry. Replace with cinnamon. Perhaps regular milk instead of coconut milk. And serve over ice cream. Or even better, gelato if you can get it. -YendorMike In order to understand recursion, one must understand recursion.
Post #423 by CRConrad 6/29/01 10:47:56 AM Reply	I think you're missing the point here... Da Yendor goes: Leave out the curry. Uh... Then they wouldn't be curried bananas any more, now would they? And given that that (albeit, not over-) was the original point of the whole excercise, you're talking about something else entirely here, AFAICS. Replace with cinnamon. Yup, that might work^[], too -- but it would be a whole nuther* kettle of fish! (Take that as Cockney rhyming slang for "dish", if you like... :-) Perhaps regular milk instead of coconut milk. Sure, that might work... In your dish. In mine, the whole point was to use the sweetness of the coconut milk to counteract the inadvertent surfeit of curry (without resorting to "cheating" like just dumping in a load of sugar and be done with it), so ordinary cow's milk wouldn't have worked. (And I didn't happen to have any in stock either, AFAICR.) (Oh, and this substitution would of course rob the dish of the "Coco-" part of its name, leaving it just a stub "Cabanana Blaps". Yet another proof it's something else entirely you're talking about.) And serve over ice cream. This is the point I agree the most with you on -- that might have worked very very nicely! I suppose the main reason I never thought of that was because I'm so tired of the standard dessert fare at Chinese restaurants at least here in Scandahoovia; bananas deep-fried in batter, and served with (almost always far too cold and hard) vanilla ice cream and syrup. But, hey, to be fair: The fault for that lies not with the ice cream, but with the unimaginative Chinese restaurateurs! So yeah, I'll try that next time. Or, to be utterly nit-pickingly specific, I'll put the bananas next to the ice cream, and only the sauce over the top... Maybe letting the sauce drip off the bananas a little while before serving will even make 'em look less like "turds"! :-) Or even better, gelato if you can get it. Not to put too fine a point on it, signor Vitale, but isn't "gelato" just the Italian word for "ice cream"^[]? Come on, Mike -- you know how I can't stand fancy-talk just for the sake of fancy-talking...! Christian R. Conrad** The Man Who, By Definition, Knows Fucking Everything There Is To Know About Cococabanana Blaps []: Though I won't swear to it. You ever tried a banana-cinnamon combination? I haven't... To me, that sounds at least as dubious as bananas and curry apparently does to most everybody else here. But whether you belive in it or not, the banana-curry combo has actually stood the test of time: I (and my four younger sisters) have eaten -- and enjoyed! -- it, every now and then, for almost as long as I can remember. [*]: Possibly only for the much more watery and less creamy Eyetie kind? Naah -- what would they call ordinary cream ice cream then, if not also "gelato"...? In fact, I'm fairly sure that's what they do call it.
Post #426 by admin 6/29/01 10:51:32 AM Reply	Serving with ice cream... would make them... Turds ala grode? Regards, -scott anderson
Post #535 by ashton2 6/29/01 11:23:59 PM Reply	gr\ufffdde, perhaps?_________or Argentina?
Post #508 by Yendor 6/29/01 5:39:19 PM Reply	Gelato != ice cream If you've ever had American ice cream and Italian gelato, you would know that they're most definitely NOT the same. Gelato is muuuch creamier and smoother than about 99% of any American ice creams that I've ever tasted. Especially the general-consumption stuff that you'll find in your supermarket over here for $4.00 a half gallon. -YendorMike In order to understand recursion, one must understand recursion.
Post #521 by CRConrad 6/29/01 9:21:19 PM Reply	As always, the difference boils down to semantics. The way we (at least Northern and non-British) Europeans use the expression "ice cream", it refers to both creamy smooth Italian gelato AND, uh, ice cream (however non-creamy and un-smooth) from all other countries, including the U. S. of A. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #2,316 by GBert 7/19/01 11:34:19 AM Reply	Gelato = ice cream in Italian In Italian, "gelato" does just mean ice cream, and as I recall, it's definitely possible to buy some not very good ice cream there. We used to get a deal on big buckets of a certain brand of ice cream from a family friend who was a sales rep... definitely quantity over quality. But I'll hand it to you that your average italian gelateria will have some pretty delectable flavors. In English, it has become SOP to use a generic foreign word to denote (and add cachet to) a specific, usually overpriced, foreign-style item. ("Biscotti" just means cookies, "latte" means milk--it's slightly ridiculous.) When I used to order a "double espresso" at Starbucks, they always corrected me--it's "Doppio" (Dopey-oh) to them. If they must use a Disney character to represent their double espresso, they should have the couth to choose a less insulting one. Make mine a Grumpy-oh. Giovanni
Post #2,536 by static 7/21/01 2:07:28 AM Reply	Ice Cream, ice cream and Ice cream. What passes for "ice cream" in the English speaking world has often been "ice confection" which is a good approximation. I don't know the difference, but I suspect it has something to do with the quantity of milk in the making. However, when I was learning Italian at school, my teacher - who had spent quite some time in Italy - said that although "gelato" is Italian for "ice cream", it is actually made substantially differently and is therefore a somewhat different product. Thus the reason for the original borrowing of the term from Italian to English. It is likely that this may no longer be the case. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"

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