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Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by pilsetnieks »

Loic wrote: post #104
nether wrote: post #61

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Michelin critics are also trained to evaluate restaurants on specific Michelin criteria and to not just give their personal take on the food. So "good enough" is very specific here to what Michelin considers important.

This is true, you need a scale and criteria which can be used by all the reviewers. This is really what matters for the consistency of the grades. Note that the Michelin is also reviewing hot-dog stands in the US and in Asia a couple of small Sushi shops have a star or I think even two.

There's a "small sushi shop" that, gasp, has even three stars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukiyabashi_Jiro

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by Hyperborian »

Retric wrote: post #115
billskills wrote: post #110

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Look, you eggheads can whine about China's economy all you want, fact is, "power projection"/"force projection" is a _military term_ for the ability to assert military force in a given part of the world in a short period of time. You can argue about _that_ being US-centric if you want, and maybe you should, because most accountings of that metric have the US far ahead of the rest of the world.

China has nuclear weapons and a massive military so it clearly has force projection. The simple fact is the root of all military power is economic power to support a military. US for example does not spend an unreasonable chunk of it's GDP on the military, it just has a massive economy.

China also has a very limited air force and barely significant blue water naval capabilities. They are especially lacking in the kind of heavy lifting and transport necessary to make force projection even possible. Due to the size and power of their army and their nuclear capabilities it's safe to say that China is effectively immune to attack (even from the US), but they have a nearly non-existent ability to project force outside of their immediate sphere of influence.

The US, on the other hand, has carrier groups that each have as much military power as many moderately sized nations. And we have ten of them stationed all over the world pretty much all the time. The difference is orders of magnitude.

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Post by david-given »

dempseye wrote: post #123
david-given wrote: post #121

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Search this for 'Town': http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/sayers-busman/sayers-busman-0...

It all seems perfectly normal to me apart from the capitalisation. Is that what is notable about it or is that a tic of this author? "On the way up to Town..." "We started back to Town..." "I'd come up to Town one morning..."

Town is always London in this context.

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Post by overcast »

billskills wrote: post #109
markcerqueira wrote: post #98

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Must be a regional thing because I've never heard of cities like NYC or SF referred to as towns. I would also say "get out of town" is a saying that means "I need to get out of this specific place." Whether the place is a town, city, region is besides the point.

It's a wry/sarcastic idiom, like calling the Atlantic Ocean "the pond". Nobody actually thinks the Atlantic Ocean is a pond.

Calling the Atlantic "the pond" is so cringe worthy. Why that ever caught on.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by overcast »

r00fus wrote: post #80
dak1 wrote: post #57

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Being classified as a "superpower" is a term in political science that means the country has the ability to project unparalleled influence on a global scale. Don't let the prominence of discussions of China's "rise" fool you though, it is most certainly not a superpower. It certainly has the capacity to be one some day, but its power projection capability is fairly restricted to its immediate vicinity in East Asia st…

I must respectfully disagree. China is the worlds manufacturing center. The power it projects globally cannot be understated.

Let's be realistic here, the only reason China is the worlds manufacturing center, is because Western companies are exploiting their cheap labor. Beyond that, they crank out everyone's cheap knockoffs.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by DrPhish »

Scarblac wrote: post #124
fatjokes wrote: post #7

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Suggestions for delicious street food in Europe? I travel to Europe pretty often and consider myself quite the glutton but have yet to experience good street food (great restaurants, yes, but not street food).

Raw herring with chopped onions in the Netherlands.

Definitely! Also, Stroopwafels

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Post by mattkevan »

beisner wrote: post #43
bjornsing wrote: post #40

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I like how you call Washington D.C. a "town". That's a very modest description of the capital of the world's only superpower. :P Now, Järpen in Sweden is a town (with about 1400 inhabitants). It has a restaurant called Fäviken. This restaurant has two Michelin stars [1]. 1. https://www.viamichelin.com/web/Restaurant/Jarpen-83005-Favi...

Not sure how tongue in cheek you're being, but for those for whom English isn't a first language, calling a large city like DC or NYC a 'town' is pretty common, and is a more colloquial way to describe a region rather than to indicate the size of the named region. Often it is used interchangeably with 'place', for instance: "I've lived in New York City all my life, I've got to get out of that town."

London is often called a town, e.g. London Town. If you said "I'm going into town" or "I got it in town" most people would know where you meant.

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Post by Normal_gaussian »

dempseye wrote: post #126
Normal_gaussian wrote: post #125

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I just asked a member of high society (my current employer) as to whether 'Town' is used to refer to London. His reply was exemplary: > Only obnoxious wankers from London will, small minded people [...] will also talk about 'their little house in the country' when they mean it is barely on the outskirts of a city! As somebody from the true North (with family originating in the North of Scotland) the way people refer…

I'm from Ireland. In the version of English I grew up with, we refer to the nearest big town or city - wherever the business, social and cultural life of the area is concentrated, basically - as "town." We would say, for instance: - "I'm going into town." - "Let's meet in town." - "Is there anything going on in town tonight?" When I lived in the south-east of Ireland, "town" referred to the central business district…

Which was my point. There are at least two different uses for the words, and they are more relevant to some people than others. Neither is 'incorrect'.

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by bryondowd »

Retric wrote: post #115
billskills wrote: post #110

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Look, you eggheads can whine about China's economy all you want, fact is, "power projection"/"force projection" is a _military term_ for the ability to assert military force in a given part of the world in a short period of time. You can argue about _that_ being US-centric if you want, and maybe you should, because most accountings of that metric have the US far ahead of the rest of the world.

China has nuclear weapons and a massive military so it clearly has force projection. The simple fact is the root of all military power is economic power to support a military. US for example does not spend an unreasonable chunk of it's GDP on the military, it just has a massive economy.

That last statement is very debatable.

This [1] 2015 data puts us at 20th of around 150 countries with 3.3% of GDP. And most of the countries high on the list have pretty understandable reasons, like a history of local violence, aggressive neighbors, or in the case of Russia, themselves being aggressive.

The EU together is reasonably comparable to the US in population, GDP, values, and enemies, but is actually closer to most threats, yet they come in as 1.5% of GDP.

The US seems to me to put a rather high allocation toward military spending considering it has no significant enemies in the same hemisphere. None capable of projecting so far logistically.

Then there's also what considering only GDP hides, which is the fact that even if every possible enemy to the US combined, the US net military spending would be significantly greater. And if an existential threat arose and warranted redirecting attention to the military, the US has a great deal of raw capacity it could bring to bear fairly quickly, which combined with having no enemies capable of quickly projecting into the US homeland, means there would likely be little issue ramping up in time for any crisis.

In other words, I'd be curious to hear a justification for the US military expenditure not being unreasonable, because it seems to me it could be less than half what it is, and still leave the country totally secure against foreign threats.

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...

Re: Street food chef's stall becomes world's first to earn Michelin star

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Post by jwarren »

ali0sha wrote: post #90
drauh wrote: post #44

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The English refer to London as a "town". E.g. Town and Country Magazine (est.1769). [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_Country_Magazine

Not quite. London is clearly a city and referred to as such, unless you're someone in high society, in which case it is just 'Town'.

Exception: if you live in a city and are going into the city centre, you might say "I'm heading into town".
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