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Re: Victual

Postby LukeJavan8 » Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:17 pm

I am very happy for you. Surgery can be a scary thing.
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Re: Victual

Postby Slava » Mon Sep 01, 2014 8:33 pm

And, hey, if it's major, it can be scarry, too. :D
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Re: Victual

Postby misterdoe » Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:38 pm

Very scarry. :shock:

But good pun! :-)

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Re: Victual

Postby call_copse » Tue Sep 02, 2014 6:38 am

I'm glad it sounds like it's gone well, best of luck getting back up to full strength. In such circumstances I'd be looking forward to a good beer, I'm sure you have something to be looking forward to enjoying!
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Re: Victual

Postby Philip Hudson » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:20 am

Back to food: There was a restaurant in our neighborhood named Good Eats. I would have rather it said Vittles. I never tried the Good Eats restaurant. I thought they were blowing their own horn too loudly.
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Re: Victual

Postby LukeJavan8 » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:50 am

We have one,more of a diner, that has a huge
black-lettered yellow sign on the roof hat
screams "EATS'. I don't think I'd try anything there.
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Re: Victual

Postby Perry Lassiter » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:29 pm

I'd prob try both at least once, for fear they knew what they were doing. I might avoid a place named Commestibles.
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Re: Victual

Postby Slava » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:42 pm

Given that greasy spoon truck stops are, in my experience, great places for good grub, I'd go for an Eats or Vittles visit.
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Re: Victual

Postby misterdoe » Sun Jun 12, 2016 12:11 am

I missed my chance to check out the vittles in that shop -- it burned down and took out half the block. :(

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Re: Victual

Postby David Myer » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:34 pm

Just discovered this thread that I must have missed when it started in 2009 (and when it revived in 2014).

Delighted you're still with us despite the surgery, Misterdoe.

Thai food is an important part of the Australian eating scene and certainly in the City areas, it often influences 'Australian cuisine'. I've never seen a one to ten scale of hotness preference on a menu, but commonly we get a 1 to 3 choice and occasionally 1 to 5. Most commonly it just gets served up. Interestingly the chili is often served as a garnish so you can adjust the heat yourself by leaving aside the chili. But the heat is all through in the curries of course. In Thailand, the local food (where it isn't westernised for visitors) is really hot with smotherings of fresh or dried chilis. Beware if you visit. But visit Australia, and enjoy the excellent but modified Thai tucker. Incidentally, tucker is rarely used now in Australia. Bonzer is also unusual and I haven't heard grouse in recent years. But of course I am a city slicker. Perhaps it is different in the bush. Victuals is never heard here (except in US hillbilly movies; I don't think it will catch on)

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Re: Victual

Postby Perry Lassiter » Wed Jun 15, 2016 6:47 am

I was well into my teens before discovering that vittles and victuals are the same word...
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Re: Victual

Postby LukeJavan8 » Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:28 pm

I am in my 70's and just learning that. Thanks.
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Re: Victual

Postby Philip Hudson » Thu Jun 16, 2016 5:22 pm

In the hinterlands it is always vittles. And one frequently gets a mess of greens including the pot likker (the water after greens are boiled in it) to slather your cornbread with.
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Re: Victual

Postby misterdoe » Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:00 pm

Anyone here ever heard of the Victual Brothers? Started out supplying a besieged city in medieval Germany with supplies, which set them on a path that ended in outright piracy...

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Re: Victual

Postby Slava » Sun Jul 24, 2016 7:19 am

I never had heard of them. Thanks for teaching me something today. A nice way to remember the difference between pirate and privateer, too.
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