Timeline for Why did James Bond heat up the knife for his foie gras?
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| Aug 14, 2016 at 17:31 | comment | added | TaW | Drinking whisky on the rocks isn't a sign of actually good taste anyway, imo.. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 16:19 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @LightnessRacesinOrbit: When you said "doesn't even mean that," what were you referring to? Think I misunderstood. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 16:16 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @LightnessRacesinOrbit: That's an interesting point. Leaving aside whether American English has any influence on British English (it does, has for decades, and does more now than ever), it pertains to me as I mostly grew up in the U.S. despite being English-on-paper and living here the last couple of decades. Now I have two questions for EL&U. :-) Oh, and Collins lists the "neat" meaning, too. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @T.J.Crowder That's a dictionary for the American offshoot dialect, no? Has nothing to do with you, me or Bond :) (Notwithstanding that, as explored earlier, it appears to be wrong anyway) | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | @LightnessRacesinOrbit: Perhaps. I've never heard straight used for the chilled meaning described there, nor apparently have Merriam-Webster (who do list the "neat" meaning of it). | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 16:03 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @T.J.Crowder "Straight" doesn't even mean that, although it is sometimes ambiguously confused with "neat". However, since what it does mean apparently isn't what Fleming describes either, in this particular case I would hardly be surprised if typical meanings of these colloquial terms had changed since the book were written. A good one for ELU, perhaps? | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 15:12 | comment | added | njzk2 | "spread"? You don't spread foie gras, you cut a slice and deposit it on your bread. | |
| Aug 14, 2016 at 15:06 | comment | added | T.J. Crowder | "Bond was finishing his first straight whisky ‘on the rocks’" is the odd thing in that quote. :-) It's either straight (aka "neat"), or it's on the rocks; it can't be both. If it were his third straight whisky 'on the rocks' we'd know it was the third one he'd had in a row without drinking something else in-between. But with "first," it just doesn't make sense. Must be why he switched to martinis. | |
| Aug 13, 2016 at 23:17 | comment | added | Basil Bourque | Keep in mind the high amount of fat in paté de foie gras, around 43%. Fat melts with heat. Thus the saying, “like a hot knife through butter”. | |
| Aug 13, 2016 at 18:58 | history | edited | Cascabel♦ |
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| Aug 13, 2016 at 0:58 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackCooking/status/764264860267978756 | ||
| Aug 12, 2016 at 21:12 | vote | accept | DVK | ||
| Aug 12, 2016 at 19:26 | history | edited | jscs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2016 at 16:56 | answer | added | paparazzo | timeline score: 54 | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 16:27 | answer | added | PoloHoleSet | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 12, 2016 at 15:37 | history | asked | DVK | CC BY-SA 3.0 |