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Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by reducesuffering »

tormeh wrote: post #144
deanCommie wrote: post #122

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National dish notwithstanding, Portugal has other plenty of great seafood-based dishes. The best National food after Italian (and maybe Japanese) is Georgian, but you don't see their restaurants worldwide either.

Georgian food is very mediocre. Bread with cheese isn’t bad, but it’s nothing special. Brazilian food, however, is very underrated.

A Georgian feast is like 8 different great dishes, not just Khachapuri. Chakapuli (Lamb & Tarragon stew) or Bazha (walnut sauce) with the way they make chicken… excellent.

Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by femiagbabiaka »

dimmke wrote: post #124
deanCommie wrote: post #122

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National dish notwithstanding, Portugal has other plenty of great seafood-based dishes. The best National food after Italian (and maybe Japanese) is Georgian, but you don't see their restaurants worldwide either.

Don’t even get me started on Octupus. Putting aside that it’s dubious ethically it’s like fucking rubber. Georgia being a tiny third world country that hardly anybody knows about might have something to do with their lack of cuisine reach. Portuguese is like the 5th most spoken language in the world. That’s pretty damning.

You have not had well cooked octopus unfortunately. And as for other fantastic Portuguese dishes, caldo verde, grilled sardines, chicken piri-piri, are all quite good. That’s just off the top of my head. And although it’s technically a Brazilian cocktail, the caipirinha is a top tier hot weather alcoholic beverage. You should visit Portugal again!

Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by CRConrad »

captaincaveman wrote: post #102
dimmke wrote: post #97

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The national dish of Portugal is salted codfish with cabbage. Fucking gross. I will die on this hill I don't care how many downvotes it gets me. You can find Italian restaurants all over the world. Where are all the Portugese restaurants if this cuisine is so brilliant?

Indeed the national dish is not to my taste, I'm not even sure what the USA national dish is, however I suspect it probably isn't the best, despite there being very good food available there. It can be hard to know what to eat and often more importantly where to eat as a tourist, and in Portugal its often (in my experience) the last obvious establishments that are the best (often places you don't even think sell food…

> I'm not even sure what the USA national dish is

Big Mac?

Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by CRConrad »

rozab wrote: post #95
rvieira wrote: post #78

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It's fair to assume that British pensioners that move to Spain are not doing it on a temporary basis, however they are still called expats. This kind of language is usually an indication of exceptionalism. Another example is British newspapers which use "corruption" when writing about alleged corruption in African countries, but use "sleaze" or "controversies" when writing about alleged corruption in the UK.

I believe this is a result of parliamentary language and defamation laws

I doubt it. British media can be sued, in Britain under British defamation laws, by foreigners too. That's why they're careful with rich white celebrities, even if they're foreigners. But less rich or famous (or white) foreigners (or their entire countries)...? Naah, not so much.

Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by CRConrad »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #74
wenc wrote: post #69

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I think expatriate actually has a different shade of meaning from migrant. Expats are typically people living outside their country on a non-permanent basis (on assignment or some temporary basis), with no intention to permanent emigrate to the country. Immigrants however are people who move to a country with the intention of settling there permanently. From the article's description, it sounds like these folks are e…

I've always thought that the key difference is attitude to the host country. Expatriates don't want to (or don't think they need to) attempt to integrate, migrants do. I've met British people who've been in NZ since the 1980s who still consider themselves ex-pats - and can still complain about how our Weetbix is nothing like good ol Weetabix. But then I've met people from Britain who've been here for 10 years, and co…

> complain about how our Weetbix is nothing like good ol Weetabix.

Who gives a fuck about the differences between different brands – or, even more meaningless, local varieties of the same brand – of chipboard as food?!?

Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by CRConrad »

YATA2 wrote: post #116
EdwardDiego wrote: post #58

I've always loved how migrants become expats when they're white. I had thought it was exclusively a preserve of the British in anywhere in Europe that's sunny, and people who moved to Singapore or Dubai for the money, but hey, welcome to the club, Californians into yoga!

I've always loved how immigration becomes something that is bad and should be stopped when it's done by whites.

You seem to have got it backwards: When it's done by whites – or actually, anglophone whites – it's not even called immigration, because immigration is bad. When others, i.e. non-anglophone non-whites, do it, that is.

Re: Expats are moving to Portugal

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Post by YATA2 »

CRConrad wrote: post #159
YATA2 wrote: post #116

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I've always loved how immigration becomes something that is bad and should be stopped when it's done by whites.

You seem to have got it backwards: When it's done by whites – or actually, anglophone whites – it's not even called immigration, because immigration is bad. When others, i.e. non-anglophone non-whites, do it, that is.

>You seem to have got it backwards

Not at all.

>When it's done by whites – or actually, anglophone whites – it's not even called immigration

It's called "gentrification", and it's bad according to the left.

>When others, i.e. non-anglophone non-whites, do it, that is.

When non-Whites do it it's openly celebrated, and more is called for.

You seem to have got it backwards.

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