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Kornheiser dijo:
So far in the group stage which teams have surprised people? I’m talking both good and bad.
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After that match tonight we can definitely add Cape Verde as a good surprise. Two draws in the first two games were in nobody's books, especially not the one against Spain.

And Belgium probably is another one of the bad surprises. Their "golden generation" is over and people need to accept it.

GaryGray dijo:
The funniest PR has been Germans discovering ranch to the point Hidden Valley is making airline travel packets to sell.
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Because we don't have that here. Well, we do, sort of. But the knock off ranch sauce they sell here is garbage and we are actually very insufferable people too. Right wingers hate the USA for being a ZOG run turbo capitalist nigger loving tyranny who gave us troons yadda yadda yadda, the left wingers hater the USA for being a turbo capitalist nigger oppressing tyranny who is committing troon genocide yadda yadda yadda and the center people are stupid idiots who know shit but think they know everything and look down on the stupid americans who don't know nothing yadda yadda yadda and for some weird reason no average German can crasp why Germans don't have the best reputation and people don't like them. Especially since Trump got reelected the people have become really, really insufferable about the USA.

But two of my co workers, two younger guys, are huge fans of the USA. One was just there for his third time two weeks ago. We made him bring along a lot of the cool food and drinks you guys have. I swear to God I would committ murder for the coffee energy mix drinks any time, any place.
 
BiggestKai dijo:
I'm curious, why do they call it Buttermilk? Pretty much all the recipes I've seen and the one I use was simply adding vinegar to milk.
I'm guessing it used to be some byproduct of butter?
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Yes. About the byproduct part. There is no vinegar. That is a horrible foisted on you to try and turn European Cream into American Buttermilk. IT IS ALL LIES.

Buttermilk is the leftover milk from butter churning. Like all things in America, its industrialized, so industrial butter production results in industrial by product. Which in this case is Buttermilk. The major food and agriculture companies sell the by product of butter production to clearing houses who then slap a buttermilk branding label on the run off based on who is buying it. Be it a grocery chain or restaurant supplier.

Which underscores a larger point. We call it "Industrial by product", but its actually awesome. Its basically a form of milk that is not quite milk, but also not quite cream. Its a weird in between state that can only exist as a product of either days of manual labor or industrial production. And its the absolute best when it comes to making sauces or baked goods. Its fatty like cream, but also not thick. Its thin like milk. Which means its the perfect thing for the production of baked goods or in this circumstance, the production of salad dressings.

Ironically, its so good for these purposes that America turned literal industrial run off into a high value commodity. So much so that European multinationals recreating American dishes like "buttermilk" pancakes and waffles and "ranch" didn't bother with actually using the buttermilk and instead used a slurry of soybean oil and milk proteins, Called it "American" and told credulous morons it was American food. Meanwhile, us Americans used the real stuff to batter our chicken for frying, make biscuits, pancakes and waffles, and also Ranch dressing. Its never been exported.

Incidentally, we could not export it even if we wanted. European Union regulations prohibit the import of American Buttermilk into Europe.
 
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Ranch seems to be the kind of local food that you can't find outside of your area.

I was eating pinhão today, a seed that only grows in the southern cone of south america and only in the winter. Dang I love it. It is do local that we have it own tool to open it.
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Buttermilk powder (which I always used when I lived in the states because who wants to buy a quart of buttermilk when the recipe calls for 1/4 cup?) seems to be somewhat available, if spendy, in Europe. I usually just go the lemon-juice-and-milk route.

Topic? I want to see France get its ass kicked on Friday but suspect that I will be disappointed.
 
BiggestKai dijo:
I'm curious, why do they call it Buttermilk? Pretty much all the recipes I've seen and the one I use was simply adding vinegar to milk.
I'm guessing it used to be some byproduct of butter?
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It’s milk that has been allowed to sour. Hence the type of milk used to make butter.

Pro tip: if you have a carton of buttermilk you can refill it with whole milk continuously. The bacteria will reproduce rapidly and sour the entire batch again.
 
Austria was a tough nut to crack, but then Messi came again with his magic, scoring a goal out of nowhere; the goalkeeper didn't even see it coming. It took everyone by surprise.
 
Messi once again saving the day and showing that he's the absolute killer machine in this team. Argentina advances to the next round, with Messi carrying the entire team on his back, and keeps proving to be the best player of all time.
 
Even for the best player of all time, there's so much even he can do.

I'd have Messi benched the next game (Argentina is already moving past group stage, so who cares) and Julián Álvarez start again. Even if Messi has proven more than capable of handling it, it isn't fair to him to have the entire team depending on him scoring.
 
New Jersey stadium absolutely blasted by torrential rain. I doubt Senegal has any experience with this kind of weather.
 
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