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njm1314 , in The first time I went to Spain I learned that they used a different set of playing cards

Oh God poor Italy, a nation torn apart not even able to see the same when it comes to playing cards. Truly a cursed people

Scrollone ,

I mean, up until the '50s we didn't even speak the same language... every region had their own language (Italians called them "dialect", but they're in fact different langauges). Then television came and unified the language (standard Italian is just the dialect of Tuscany).

Italy is a very young country. Sure, the Ancient Romans unified the whole Europe, but Italy has only became a nation in 1861. Pretty young country if you ask me.

grozzle ,

I like the story of mid-1800s crowds shouting "viva L’Italia!" and half the crowd wondering "who is Talia? Garibaldi's wife?"

thepreciousboar ,

Wait until you see that every regione has their own drawings for the same suits

YourPrivatHater , in [Your much does your meal cost] 8€ meal at a factory in Germany.
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For 8€ it should be more. But the quality looks good.

jol ,

Does it? Not 1 single green thing in sight? For a work cafeteria I would hope for a balanced meal.

Edit: my bad, the pool of cream has some green bits in it, so it's technically a salad. Carry on.

YourPrivatHater ,
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I cant decide if the red and white stuff is onion or some veggie. Stuff doesn't need to be green to be tasty and balanced.

riodoro1 ,

If you can’t recognize a fucking onion im sure your diet is perfect.

YourPrivatHater ,
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There is a similar looking type of salad that is often eaten in Germany.

SaintWacko ,

Purple cabbage. And it does look similar

YourPrivatHater ,
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Its eaten like salad though.

We do have actually purple cabbage but its usually eaten hot and looks different.

https://wiki.fermenthings.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blaukraut.jpg

https://ais.kochbar.de/kbrezept/53802_1010429/1200x1200/blaukraut-selbst-eingelegt-rezept-bild-nr-2.jpg

There are some dishes with it where its eaten cold, but it makes the cabbage usually more purple beyond it being mistaken for something else also due to the texture. Many Döner stores put it in the Döner dishes cold as well, tastes great.

Love cabbage. Sauerkraut based, high on vitamins.

SaintWacko ,

Ah, here in the US it's often used as a garnish to add a pop of color

YourPrivatHater ,
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XD thats some use of it in the Premium Dining here as well, but i think it tastes too good to just eat it in small quantities for the color, its healthy and tastes great when done right.

They call us Krauts for a reason XD

SaintWacko ,

I agree! I'll just eat it raw lol

intensely_human ,

“Where’s the green stuff?”

“We got this purple thing”

“Excellent. Carry on”

englislanguage ,

Yes, it is onion and yes, it is some veggie because onions are vegetables 😀

YourPrivatHater ,
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lol

intensely_human ,

I don’t think that’s what “quality” means here. It refers to the competence with which the food is executed.

jol ,

Fair enough

jupyter_rain , in [How much does your meal cost] €3.75 meal at a Danish Engineering company
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Looks super tasty and healthy! Is this a regular occurence or an outlier in your company?

Servais OP ,
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Honestly, it's not mine, I found somewhere else, but it seems to be a regular occurrence from what I've seen

verstra , in The most consumed type of alcoholic drink in Europe

Marking for Slovenia is wrong. I do have statistical data from our statistical agency and it is not even close: 8.5l/person/year of vine and 26.5/person/year of beer (including non-alcohol).

Arguably, vine has higher alcohol content (~11.5%) compared to beer (~4.9%), but even even if we look at "alcohol consumed from wine/beer per person per year", we get 0,9775L from vine and 1,2985 from beer.

These findings are in agreement with my intuition based on me seeing what people drink.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

Source stat.si, year 2018 (latest available): https://pxweb.stat.si:443/SiStatData/sq/23566

Successful_Try543 , (Bearbeitet )

As the numbers for beer from stat.si do not differentiate between alcohol free and usual beer, its bold to assume the weighted (by share of consumption) average beer contains 4.9 vol.% alcohol unless you know that it may be totally uncommon to drink non-alcoholic beer.

verstra ,

True. It is uncommon, I'd guess every 10th beer is non-alcoholic. But then there is also radler, with lower alcohol content, which would probably represent 3 out of every 10 beers.

EdyBolos , in The first time I went to Spain I learned that they used a different set of playing cards

You can clearly see what region of Romania was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire 😅

De_Narm , in Meal at office canteen in Zurich: CHF 14.50 (~ €15.10)

Glad to finally see something without a soft drink included - I like the soup much more.

What are those fried bits? They kinda look like small Gnocchi or something similar.

Enkrod ,

What are those fried bits? They kinda look like small Gnocchi or something similar.

Should be "Knöpfli". Gnocchi are primarily made from potatoes or potato flour, sometimes combined with wheat flour and egg, Knöpfle/Knöpfli are more similar to the swabian Spätzle and common in Switzerland, it's made from eggs, flour and water or milk.

NoIWontPickAName ,

I see 2 soft drinks there

De_Narm ,

A soft drink is any water-based flavored drink
Water isn't flavored and soup isn't a drink.

NoIWontPickAName ,

Is that soup? I thought it was orange juice.

I’ve always heard soft drink as the opposite of a hard drink, like one that has alcohol in it

Drusas ,

In American English, "soft drink" almost always refers specifically to soda.

NoIWontPickAName ,

I thought the brown stuff was the soup

NoIWontPickAName ,

Also, I checked Wikipedia and it includes water and says what I did about alcohol

where_am_i , (Bearbeitet ) in Do you guys like memes more?

Is meme, has eastern yurop, it's bad, gemany gud, clearly upvote.

Next, please, south yurop loud chaos, balkan hate, merica no understand us. Upvotes stonk, promise.

Hugh_Jeggs , in Provence Kitsch

You can almost smell this picture. Pine, lavender, dust, garlic, rosé wine and pétanque

AchtungDrempels OP ,

Don't forget the pastis ;)

I was on my way with the plan to recreate this photo i took in septmeber some years ago, just with flowering lavender this time:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ee56735f-1e38-4846-a44f-4cac15dbb671.jpeg

When i got there, turns out at this spot the lavender field is no more, haha. Photos taken at Col de Soubeyrand.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4ae05386-03cc-4e7f-8cd4-74a426ff4bf1.jpeg

There was a lavender field a bit higher up, but it was not flowering much yet, i guess too high up.

I am in La Motte Chalancon now, heading north, barkeeper tells me if i cycle past the next mountain, i will have left the Provence.

Servais ,
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pastis

Someone of culture

Hugh_Jeggs ,

Lovely pics! Did you do the Ventoux on your bike? I hear it's a legend amongst cyclists

AchtungDrempels OP ,

Yes, i actually rode it yesterday.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d60aa709-622b-40ea-a9ca-e5725b70c1e0.jpeg

And hundreds of road cyclists too, busiest mountain i have ridden.

Hugh_Jeggs ,

Bravo ! The reviews on Google maps are a hilarious read. As many angry angry cyclists as there are angry angry drivers 😂

Bon voyage !

AchtungDrempels OP ,

Oh that sounds funny, gonna read those now with my breakfast :)

spirinolas , in The first time I went to Spain I learned that they used a different set of playing cards

In Portugal, while we use the French/English cards, we still called them by the old names (Spanish/Italian).

We call clovers paus (sticks, clubs), pikes are called espadas (swords), diamonds is ouros (gold, coins) and hearts are called copas (cups).

I always found weird how the names had nothing to do with the symbols themselves. Now I understand.

pgetsos ,

Huh, now that you mention it, almost the same for Greece except for diamonds being more like "checkered" and for swords-sticks being the other way around for some reason. Also always thought it was weird!

RavenFellBlade , in The first time I went to Spain I learned that they used a different set of playing cards
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Love that the Spanish are using Tarot suits for their standard playing cards.

Paraponera_clavata ,

Or is tarot using Spanish suits?

RavenFellBlade ,
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Great question! I was under the impression the Tarot came first.

Paraponera_clavata ,

I looked it up. Wikipedia says,

Tarot (/ˈtæroʊ/, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini. From their Italian roots, tarot-playing cards spread to most of Europe, evolving into a family of games that includes German Grosstarok and modern games such as French Tarot and Austrian Königrufen. In the late 18th century French occultists made elaborate, but unsubstantiated, claims about their history and meaning, leading to the emergence of custom decks for use in divination via tarot card reading and cartomancy. Thus, there are two distinct types of tarot packs in circulation: those used for card games and those used for divination. However, some older patterns, such as the Tarot de Marseille, originally intended for playing card games, are occasionally used for cartomancy.

ShugarSkull , in The first time I went to Spain I learned that they used a different set of playing cards

Actually in France we have both design!

The second one is rarer but you can see it on the "Tarot de Marseille"

It's a different set of cards, in this form there called "lames" (blades) or "arcanes" (arcana)

The set is divided in 4 colors also called family: "épée" (sword), "coupe" (cup, but think of it as the same type of cup as the saint grail), "bâton" (club) and "denier" (it's an old coin)

This compose the 52 "arcanes mineurs"

In addition there also 22 "arcanes majeurs" called "atouts"

And it is usually recognize because it's the base of the Tarot use for divination

But now it's generally used to play the eponymous game of "Tarot", a very good and very old game that me and my friend played a lot at uni

zaphod ,

And with "both" from what it looks like you mean the french and italian styles.

ShugarSkull ,

Yes but also not only, we have MANY more design of tarot card, especially when considering "atouts/arcanes majeurs" as here a deck of tarot is an object of play but also an object of collection

Here an example

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/b1471fb9-cb27-401e-89a6-fcaf19fcf989.jpeg

tamal3 , in 3,25€ lunches at a work canteen in Spain

Please hire me. I need a job, and a visa to leave the US... Y hablo español.

Moghul , in [How much does your meal cost] €3.75 meal at a Danish Engineering company

I pay about 8 euros for something similar, also in Denmark, but my employer covers it. It's not always great but it's way better than bringing anything myself.

hemko , in The Canvas has started, feel free to add your country flag!
henfredemars , in The Canvas has started, feel free to add your country flag!

Surprised to see even this amount of pony. The one community I know of is pretty quiet.

Liome ,
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Wanted to say the same thing.
There are 2 or 3, but all are sadly simmilar amounts of dead.

henfredemars ,

I try to post every few weeks at least to be the change!

Deebster ,
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This year's Canvas is open to all the fediverse, so it could be from a Mastodon/Misskey/whatever server.

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