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Chicago Pizza
SpaceX Starship
King Cobra
Holy Roman Empire
Time for a shitpost. Let’s play a round of Only Connect!
What’s the connection?
Chicago Pizza
SpaceX Starship
King Cobra
Holy Roman Empire
@goatsarah None of them are actually examples of the last word in their name
@goatsarah They aren't what they are called. Chicago pizza isn't a pizza, SpaceX Starship doesn't go to the stars, a King Cobra isn't a cobra, and the Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not roman and not an empire.
@goatsarah Also, King Cobras aren't royal. I was wondering if Chicago pizza wasn't from Chicago, but it turns out that it is.
@po8crg @goatsarah I think that Chicago pizza is at least similar enough to unqualified pizza to bear the _qualified_ name. It's perfectly standard for an X Y to be _somewhat_ different from the prototypical Y, and I don't think that chicago pizza exceeds that level of difference, unless "pizza" is defined _particularly_ narrowly.
(disclaimer, it's been many years since I've eaten a Chicago pizza. It didn't make a massive impression on me, gastronomically-speaking.)
@goatsarah @po8crg I get that you disapprove of it, but it's not "not a pizza" in the way that a Welsh Rabbit (aka rarebit) is "not a rabbit".
@goatsarah @po8crg chicago pizza quite possibly qualifies as a quiche *as well as* a pizza. That's OK, categories can overlap.
@goatsarah Honestly, I'd do Boeing Starliner: not made by Boeing (it's McDonell Douglas), doesn't go to the stars, and not a liner.
@nickbwalking @po8crg @pseudomonas Now now, as Adam says, we shouldn’t be too prescriptive. If the good people of Chicago want to eschew egg in their quiche, who are we to judge?
I should, however, note that Welsh Rarebit actually is pizza.
@goatsarah @po8crg @pseudomonas for me 'quiche' implies something that's mainly egg-based, so it doesn't fall into that category, though it is as much a pie as it is a pizza.
Not this King Cobra... :blobfox3cevil:
@goatsarah Yup. Not even in the português sense. :blobfox3cevil:
Sorry, was I being confusing? I've had a late night... :blobfoxgoogly:
@goatsarah they’re neither holy, nor Roman, nor empires?
@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org they're all mis-named?
not a pizza, not a starship, not a cobra…
@goatsarah Not at the moment, because apparently the flammable tape that holds the parachutes in doesn't burn.
@pseudomonas
It ain't remotely a quiche. I've yet to encounter one that included eggs or had a pastry crust.
As a linguistic realist, I believe foods are what they are called if they are called that by enough people who eat those foods.
@goatsarah @po8crg
@goatsarah
LIke I said, no egg, no pastry crust. That's a yeasted crust.
(Some might have egg if they're filled with ricotta, which sometimes gets a bit of egg to fluff it up.)
@po8crg @pseudomonas
@FeralRobots @po8crg @pseudomonas Have to say, the intricacies of baked gluten products escape me, since I have to file them all under “poison” these days.
Anyway, it was a very pleasant fruit tart.
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