Those of you who aren’t regular readers of the comments here may not be aware of A Voice for Pierre, the hilarious new webcomic by regular Man Boobz commenter Katz, inspired by Man Boobz trolls and dopey Boobz more generally. Here’s the first strip, about a poor paranoid MRA afraid to take his sons to Canada lest they be attacked and possibly killed by wild feminists. Naturally, it’s based on a TRUE STORY.
You can find more Pierre at the A Voice for Pierre website.
I write much as I speak. One of the joys of russian is that it has a substitutional pronoun which means, basically, “begin paranthetical phrase here”. Once I figured out what it meant, I was in hog-heaven.
Not to mention that it uses the same alphabet as Spanish!
If anyone dug up the stuff that I wrote as a tweener it would be purple and adjective-heavy enough to make even the most florid MRA proud.
(This is why you don’t piss of your old friends, who might still have stuff that you wrote as a kid in their possession.)
Poutine seems like the leading contestant right now…
If Poutine wins, does that mean there’ll be a picture of Pierre and Poutine sharing a bowl of poutine?
I’ve never had poutine. Is it worth seeking out?
I don’t usually like that sort of cheese so probably not.
I like my chips unadorned, so I wouldn’t be having it either. Plus cheese and gravy sounds a bit … um, not for me.
I am British so gravy on chips sounds fine to me, but I’m awfully picky about cheese.
At my high school they didn’t quite grasp the concept of vegetarianism, so students who told the kitchen staff that they were veggie would get a pile of chips covered in either shredded cheddar or gravy. Tasty, but not exactly nutritious.
Or particularly vegetarian, with the gravy!
At least they didn’t offer it with Spam.
Just imagine what would have happened if anyone had tried to explain the concept “vegan”.
Poutine seems like an idea particularly stereotypical beanie-wearing stoners might come up with. Not quite sure why it’s given the level of respect it is, but I never cared for cheese so I’m biased.
Now, brown vinegar on chips, that’s good! Or white, which is unconventional, but available at Outback Steakhouse as some sort of uniquely Australian option. Now, given that vinegar on chips has been foreign to most people I’ve had it with and most chip-shop owners seem surprised some under 65 and without (too much of a) pommy accent asks for it, I don’t know quite where they got that idea. But it is pleasant.
It’s really unusual having an Australian-themed restaraunt in Australia, too. Would not go back.
Surprised by vinegar on chips? What an odd country that must be.
(Actually almost everything goes with chips. I just don’t like curd cheeses, the texture bothers me.)
It’s usually right there on counters at chip shops and that, but often in dodgy-looking unmarked plastic bottles. Tomato sauce or unadorned is the standard way of doing things here. Chicken salt is popular too, and judging by the reactions of various international visitors to be offered either chicken or plain salt with their chips it certainly seems mostly an Aussie phenomenon.
Chips that my silly American ass would call fries? Those go on things, like salads (ah Pittsburgh, the weird things you eat)
What’s chicken salt?
(Guess that answers your question about whether it’s an Aussie thing, huh?)
I had a salad in Pittsburg once. It was about half a pound of sliced ham, about half a pound of cheese, and a sad little pile of iceburg lettuce on the bottom.
“Tomato sauce” …ketchup? Assuming we’re thinking of the same sort of chips, that’s standard here too, as is salt (to the point that everyone thinks I’m weird because I’m not a fan of salt)
Mostly MSG and salt, probably. It’s yellow and doesn’t taste anything like chicken. Quite tasty though – we’ve had international visitors ask us to send some over, which is more than can be said for Vegemite.
The standard tricking-foreigners-into-believing-Vegemite-is-edible schtick is just cruel if you ask me.
Yes, tomato sauce = tomato ketchup, but we tend not to use that word. It’s creeping in but a lot of Australians think of it as a nasty American term.
Cassandra, you’ve just summed up when I ordered a salad exactly once! Even the side salads come with fries though, and those generally don’t have expensive things like meat, so I kind of got used to my salads having fries.
And now I miss the Turkish place around the corner from my old apt — excellent kebab with salads and fries, all kind of thrown together into a pile of skewers, lettuce, tomato and fries.
When someone says tomato sauce I think marinara, so that could turn a bit Monty Python-ish.
Lowquaks — ok but tomato sauce is a (different) thing, it goes on pasta, and would be weird on fries. Y’all call them both the same thing? And figure it from context?
I was so sad about my salad because it was a work trip and they’d been feeding us very meaty things all day so I was craving some vegetables. Half a cup of soggy iceberg just didn’t do it for me.
Aw, that sucks, salads really do require things like tomatoes, pepper, etc (YMMV of course, but non-lettuce veggies are needed!)