• Obinice
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    Not knowing what a particular dish that you’ve never seen before doesn’t make you dumb.

    I have no idea what scalloped potatoes is, I’ve never had it. Maybe it means they bake scallops inside a potato? I have no idea. I’ve never had scallops either, I take it they’re a type of sea food, but as I’ve never run into them I assume they’re not for the working class.

    Not everybody can live a fancy lifestyle, or live somewhere where scallops and other fancy foods are affordable for normal people.

    So, when they hear of a dish with scallop in the name, it’s not “dumb” to think that it may have scallops, a food they’ve never seen, in it.

    • Bobby Bandwidth
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      First of all, scallops are gross anyway. Second of all, got any plans for tonight?

    • Adlach
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      ‘Scalloped’ means baked in milk or some other cream sauce. I don’t disagree with you, I’m just telling you. There’s no scallops in scalloped potatoes.

      I am surprised you’ve never had scallops, though. They’re cheaper than crab. You can get a pound for like $10 at Kroger.

      • @Soulfulginger
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        Pretty sure scalloped doesn’t necessarily mean to bake in cream sauce. It refers to the way they are cut - concentric circles or semi circles to look like scallops (the fish). So although they may look like scallops, there’s no fish in the dish at all.

    • diprount_tomato
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      1211 months ago

      Bro really was able to victimise themselves with a short meme 💀

    • @kameecoding
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      yeah the meme is stupid, I watch cooking youtube a lot, like a lot lot and I have never heard of Scalloped potatoes, but I have seen some scallop recipes so I would have assumed they are indeed connected.

      this is like calling someone dumb for thinking Stamford Bridge is a bridge and not knowing it’s a football stadium.

      just don’t call people stupid for not knowing things that might be obvious to you (unkess they say shit like vaccines cause autism, but even then try to approach with empathy first)

      https://xkcd.com/1053/

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        Stamford bridge is also a bridge though. And the location of a very important battle in English history. If you’re not a football fan, you might be familiar with the battle but not the stadium (as was my case).

        I think this example is more like if she thought scalloped potatoes involved scallops, but there were actually 2 dishes called scalloped potatoes, one of which does involve scallops

    • @ickplantOP
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      811 months ago

      Enjoy it for what it is, my friend - a shitpost.

    • @[email protected]
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      The vaguely intelligent will inquire about something they don’t know out of curiosity rather than assuming they already have enough information and making decisions based on that.

    • Kernal64
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      Lol, they have scallops at Red Lobster. It’s not some elite, upper class food. 🤣 I’ve never seen anyone try to reverse gatekeep a common seafood before. Truly impressive!

  • @[email protected]
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    I went on a date once and was talking about my garden, I mentioned not particularly caring for flowers other than to attract pollinators.

    She said “wtf is pollination?”

    Ummm… Did you skip 3rd grade? Lol I could forgive that, but then she started talking about stealing shit from some “annoying guy” at a bar.

    She’s definitely stupid enough to sleep with me, but I have to live with myself every day after that. Lol

  • @Apex_Fail
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    1011 months ago

    Man, I had this happen back in college. Went on a date where she thought tiramisu sounded gross because of “lady fingers”…

    So she ordered the “cream brooly”.

  • @[email protected]
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    Had a girl ask me once if I was super religious just because I knew that AD = anno domini = in the year of our lord.

    I don’t think I even knew how to respond.

  • @FrankTheHealer
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    411 months ago

    Maybe I’m profoundly stupid but I had to look up what Scalloped Potatoes were because its called something else where I’m from lol