You could make a European-style "tarte" -- i.e. with not top crust. That would also be approximately a pie.
No, that would be a pie. We call it a "single crust pie." It's a tarte only if it's made in a [_tarte pan_http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=540&f=6566] or freeform. A single crust peach pie would have some sort of streusel-ish topping, however.
How about an apple pi?
Our figures says we eat even more beef than that now. We are around 75 kg. (165 lb) per person per year. We rarely have fish.
An Argentine saying goes: "If there's no beef, then it's not a meal, it's a snack"
Yesterday's Metropolitan Diary had a SiT-worthy piece:
Dear Diary:
Cast of Characters: My 6-year-old son, Jeremy, and a classmate, Max, from his Upper West Side public kindergarten.
The Scene: The fountain at the Museum of Natural History on a recent hot and sticky Saturday afternoon as the boys direct a spray of >water into a large bucket.
Jeremy (Observing the water swirling around the bucket): “Is that a whirlpool or a vortex?”
Max: “I think it’s a maelstrom.”
I took the liberty of chopping off the last sentence, because I think it's better this way. (The original is on the NYTimes site.)
A while ago we had a discussion about strange names given to children. Here's another where you may wonder, "what have these people been smoking?":
re 1330, yep, it's not really a hamburger without beetroot, although you only get egg if you order a hamburger "with the lot" (but then you might get canned pineapple as well - but no pickles, that's strictly McDonalds).
#40 -- Funny stuff, but poor children.
Did you (pl.) see that today's thread of the day is that insane "What Asian language is like Spanish in South America?" thread?
Yikes. If ever a thread didn't deserve immortalization, or whatever is conferred by TOTD status, it was that one.
Unbelievable. I noticed they made a long-dormant, largely anti-US thread a TOTD some time back for no good reason I could discern, and now that bizarre "best language" thread. I stayed off both because they so quickly got out of hand.
Back in hot, muggy, overcast New York now for awhile.
CK
Bird news: it's in the news that researchers found that cuckoos, being raised by 'adoptive parents' adopt different calls, depending on the host parents' species. It takes them a few days to settle on a call -- they try different calls to ask for food, apparently to test what sound has the greatest effect. (i.e. which yields most food.)
They also mentioned that cuckoos generally break out of their eggs a few days before the host's own eggs. The first thing they do is kick the other eggs out of the nest, so that the adoptive parent can't compare their sound and look, and the young cuckoo cannot be discovered as an impostor.
Sociopaths, aren't they?