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"Best Hockey Hair"

Damn...i was mistaken. The 2nd biggest award. We won the category, but didn't win Best in Show....but it's a strange award, because they don't give it to the winners from any of the categories...and the one that won best in show was in our category. I don't get it...
 
best hockey hair?
as in fanciest mullet?

you call that a project? :lol:
 
best hockey hair?
as in fanciest mullet?

you call that a project? :lol:

Are you saying that this isn't worthy of an award for teamwork, dedication, and creative design?!?!

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T'was just joking. It was an industry award, unrelated to hockey or hair.
 
Bought some queso from the grocery store. It’s been Spicey Butt for 12 hours now. 2/10, wouldn’t recommend.
 
I have a question I'd like to ask an American- Is it true that in America, chow mien doesn't have noodles in it?

Also, is it true that Americans call their main course an "entree"?
 
I have a question I'd like to ask an American- Is it true that in America, chow mien doesn't have noodles in it?

Also, is it true that Americans call their main course an "entree"?
On the second one - yes - that's true for the Us and Canada. And to add a question: does anyone know why? I know it's true because I've been there and stuff ... but no one was able to explain this to me so far.
 
Also, is it true that Americans call their main course an "entree"?

That part is true (I don't know about the Chow Mein), and really bugs me!

I'm sure the historical reason for it is interesting, much like déjeuner/petit déjeuner in French.
 
I have a question I'd like to ask an American- Is it true that in America, chow mien doesn't have noodles in it?

Also, is it true that Americans call their main course an "entree"?

Regarding the latter - yes, and here’s why; it isn’t the ‘Americans are idiots’ reason, either. https://www.casaschools.com/why-americans-say-entree-for-main-course/

Regarding the former - American ‘Chinese’ food is surprisingly regional and there are many variations, not least of which because it is the chef’s impression of what a dish should be whether that be because of where they are from or some other reason. There’s no standards body setting definitions. (“Who is General Tso and why are we eating his chicken? Does he know these chicken are missing?”)

That said, most US Chinese restaurants that I’ve seen offer a ‘chow mein’ containing noodles. (Often there is more noodles than anything else, but that’s another separate issue.) The major national Chinese chain restaurants all define chow mein as featuring noodles.

Please feel free to beat whoever told you that we generally don’t use noodles in chow mein.

Edit: re: entrée: In my opinion, another set of factors that may have contributed to the continued use of the term as it is in the US:

1. Americans historically often tended to have large families or at least dinner on the farm tended to be a large communal affair with the hired hands and laborers - such that one main dish would not serve everyone. There was often a surplus of different types of foods, so what Europeans would call entrees in that day and age (because the portions were restricted in favor of a main dish) could be expanded in quantity to also be useful as main dishes in their own right, though people would have to choose which dish they wanted to have as their main.

2. The changes in American society that gave rise to cafeteria and automat dining (even before the Depression) in the 20s and 30s would further push the common definition towards that initiated in point 1 above. Where a regular restaurant or diner might have but one ‘main dish’ they served per night, a cafeteria or automat would have many available.

3. Finally, increasing mobility and changing tastes would start collapsing the European ‘five plus course meal’ down to the now traditional mainline American restaurant formula of optional appetizer, salad or soup, main course and optional dessert. Nobody had time for more courses.
 
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Nice explanation, doesn't make it any less dumb. This is literally calling your main course "starters".

Added some additional ideas above.

Enh, it’s not that stupid as I think it’s really more of a consolidation. The formal ‘main course’ gets split up and combined with the ‘entrees’ for reasons outlined above. ‘Main courses’ is slightly awkward in American English (far more so in the American English of the turn of the last century) and there really wasn’t anything else to call it at the time.

At least it’s not an abomination like ‘brunchfast.’

And it could be worse.
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I don't eat a lot of "Chinese" food, but I can't recall ever seeing a Chow Mein on a menu. I have seen Lo Mein and it is, as @Spectre described it, mostly noodles.

From the largest Chinese food chain restaurant in the country:

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