The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

Does your wife's family call them that?  Even the FOTB Ukes I know call them pyrogy.

Absolutely. They never use the term pierogy or pyrogy.

[Barrister]

Does your wife's family call them that?  Even the FOTB Ukes I know call them pyrogy.

Absolutely. They never use the term pierogy or pyrogy.

Huh.  Whereabout in Ukraine are they from?

[Eddie Teach]

what is English mustard?


while I like many different types of mustard, I got to admit my favourite is still the bright yellow cheap stuff.

I like "spicy mustard".

[Malthus]

Does your wife's family call them that?  Even the FOTB Ukes I know call them pyrogy.

Absolutely. They never use the term pierogy or pyrogy.

Huh.  Whereabout in Ukraine are they from?

Near Lviv, originally - so Western Ukraine. They are Catholic, Western Ukrainians - very much into Ukrainian nationalism. 

[Ed Anger]

Miracle Whip is superior to regular Mayo.

[Barrister]

Does your wife's family call them that?  Even the FOTB Ukes I know call them pyrogy.

Absolutely. They never use the term pierogy or pyrogy.

Huh.  Whereabout in Ukraine are they from?

Near Lviv, originally - so Western Ukraine. They are Catholic, Western Ukrainians - very much into Ukrainian nationalism.

My first serious girlfriend was from Ukraine - western ukraine, a town near the Romanian border.  Orthodox, but admitted that was unusual for that part of Ukraine.  I'm sure her and her family called them Pyrogi (as Marti would point out, the world is already plural).

[merithyn]

Looks like it's a kielbasa and sauerkraut kind of night. Maybe with some hot potato salad.

Thanks for the dinner idea, guys.

You want pyrogies with your kielbasa and sauerkraut.

Nope.

[Barrister]

Looks like it's a kielbasa and sauerkraut kind of night. Maybe with some hot potato salad.

Thanks for the dinner idea, guys.

You want pyrogies with your kielbasa and sauerkraut.

Nope.

What's wrong with you woman!

[merithyn]

I prefer German potato salad to pierogies, by whatever name you call them.

[Barrister]

I prefer German potato salad to pierogies, by whatever name you call them.

[Grey Fox]

Miracle Whip is superior to regular Mayo.

Are you trying to get murdered?

[Maximus]

Looks like it's a kielbasa and sauerkraut kind of night. Maybe with some hot potato salad.

Thanks for the dinner idea, guys.

You want pyrogies with your kielbasa and sauerkraut.

Or, alternatively, vareniki. 

Huh, that's what they are called in Mennonite Low German, or rather varenekje. I didn't realize that word was of Ukrainian origin.

[grumbler]

Miracle Whip is superior to regular Mayo.

Are you trying to get murdered?

I endorse Ed eating all the Miracle Whip Food Product there is.  That's eliminate competition for me for the good stuff.

[Eddie Teach]

Miracle Whip is superior to regular Mayo.

Damning with faint praise.

[Ed Anger]

Fried spam on toast with miracle whip: