In New Zealand, the Classic Kiwi Dip has been a party staple for decades. I love this stuff. It’s a can of reduced cream mixed with a packet Maggi onion soup and a bit of malt vinegar. I love this stuff so much that I bring back several pairings of the onion soup and cream every time I visit. I’ve tried premade onion dips in the US and they’ve never tasted even close.
A couple months ago at my PiL’s house, onion dip was being passed around. It tasted almost exactly like the CKD! “Omg what’s the recipe?” I asked my MiL.
Lipton’s onion soup mix and sour cream 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ I guess because all the previous onion dips I’d tried were sour cream-based, I assumed that was the issue and I needed reduced cream specifically.
Tbf, CKD does benefit a little extra from the malt vinegar.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:08 (six months ago) link
a little malt vin in the onion dip does sound good
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 17:27 (six months ago) link
Not sure how I’m gonna break this news to my fellow kiwis, since for generations we’ve been under the impression our CKD is extremely unique.
― just1n3, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:22 (six months ago) link
Does the vinegar curdle the cream?
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 23:35 (six months ago) link
I think I’ve used the Knorr French Onion mix before for the same. Looks like they have a dip recipe on the bag sometimes, although theirs appears to include mayonnaise in addition to sour cream https://www.knorr.com/us/en/r/french-onion-dip.html/107790
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 00:19 (six months ago) link
lmao my dad used to make the onion soup mix plus sour cream combo all the time and I was SPRINTING to tell you
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 01:17 (six months ago) link
We are not kiwi of course just your everyday snack connoisseurs
French onion dips a thing in Aus too but yeah we just make it with sour cream and Continental french onion soup in a packet. I'd be curious to try an evap milk/malt vinegar combo instead!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:12 (six months ago) link
(assuming reduced cream = evaporated milk ? I am maybe rong)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 05:13 (six months ago) link
Not sure if it’s quite the same - it’s only sold in nz and oz, nowhere else in the world
https://thespinoff.co.nz/kai/15-09-2019/future-of-kiwi-onion-dip-hangs-in-the-balance-as-nestle-factory-closes#
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:37 (six months ago) link
Afaict, reduced cream is made from cream and skim milk, while evaporated milk is just milk. I think reduced cream has a higher fat content.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:42 (six months ago) link
Also, I don’t know of any other instance where reduced cream is used, except in CKD, which tells you just much of this stuff we eat.
― just1n3, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:43 (six months ago) link
It only dawned on me minutes ago that the name of the protagonist of the Alien series, Ripley, is just the first name of the director of the first film with the "d" rotated 180 degrees.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 21 March 2024 01:46 (six months ago) link
Ha!
― Make Me Smile (Come Around and See Me) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:03 (six months ago) link
Believe it . . . or not!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 March 2024 06:32 (six months ago) link
Ripley Scarn
― kinder, Thursday, 21 March 2024 11:32 (six months ago) link
Today i learned that Meatloaf was only 5'2"!! I always thought he was about 9ft tall
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:25 (six months ago) link
No way!
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:26 (six months ago) link
Haha no scratch that - I've been given false information. He was six foot
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:30 (six months ago) link
ppl out there just fibbing abt meat loaf, in 2024!
― mark s, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:33 (six months ago) link
FAKE LOAF
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:36 (six months ago) link
Like a Gnat Out of Hell
― Tom D (the first British Asian ILXor) (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:38 (six months ago) link
5'2" ain't bad
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 21 March 2024 20:41 (six months ago) link
We were barely seventeen and we were not so tall
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 21 March 2024 21:57 (six months ago) link
Clock DVA, the sheffield band, who i have always called "Clock D V A" are actually "Clock Dva", Dva being russian for 'two'. it's a clockwork orange reference.
(still unconvinced by that)
― koogs, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:37 (six months ago) link
Whoa really?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:47 (six months ago) link
I heard that several years ago. The 2 o'clock bit at least. Thirst has a symbol on the front that appears to signify that too. irckle with a triangle corresponding to the clock hands position filled in.
― Stevo, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:15 (six months ago) link
circle with a triangle
I remember them talking about this in the Made In Sheffield documentary - iirc they gave up telling everyone it wasn't D V A after a couple of years and started calling it that themselves.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:36 (six months ago) link
The difference between collision and allision, at least as far as maritime law defines it.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 26 March 2024 12:35 (six months ago) link
Railways existed before steam engines and locomotives - I mean, duh, why wouldn't they?
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 19:31 (six months ago) link
well a locomotive wouldn’t be much use without them Tom duh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 20:08 (six months ago) link
allision-- my aim's untrue
― schrodingers cat was always cool (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:13 (six months ago) link
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:20 (six months ago) link
Wagonways!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Wagonway
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:23 (six months ago) link
... this is what I was shockingly old when I learned about.
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 March 2024 23:27 (six months ago) link
I used to know this insane wingnut minor-league weedlord out of Cave Junction who had built a working wood gas car— it didn’t go very fast or far, but it worked! Saw it with my own eyes. Lost tough with him because he outed himself as a virulent anti-vaxxer a few years before the pando
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 01:27 (six months ago) link
I’ve driven something converted to run off natural gas
what’s wild is how many road vehicles were electric back in the early days. Or cities with full-on electric buses with the overhead electric line. Was widespread for a brief period
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 03:29 (six months ago) link
"Waiting for Guffman" per wiki:
The film's title is a reference to Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.
oh. duh ...
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 18:47 (six months ago) link
What a "hospital pass"is. Saw this story and thought it must have something to do with the NHShttps://www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/03/28/rishi-sunak-i-inherited-worst-hospital-pass-for-a-new-pm-in-decades/
― Alba, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:32 (six months ago) link
Not shocking, but I just learned the character in the drawings of nude woman in black gloves and stockings that appear in Playboy are called femlins, and that the character was created by LeRoy Neiman.
Femlins were created by sport illustrator LeRoy Neiman in 1955 when publisher/editor Hugh Hefner decided the Party Jokes page needed a visual element.[1] The name is a portmanteau of "female" and "gremlin." They are portrayed as mischievous black and white female sprites, apparently 10–12 in (250–300 mm) tall, wearing only opera gloves, stockings and high heel shoes.[2] They are usually drawn in two or three panel vignettes, interacting with various life-sized items such as shoes, jewelry, neckties and such.
An auction is happening today of stuff from the Hefner estate.
― nickn, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:48 (six months ago) link
Americans call an umbrella a "bumbershoot".
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 29 March 2024 08:53 (six months ago) link
a handful of americans, perhaps
― mookieproof, Friday, 29 March 2024 09:48 (six months ago) link
i have never heard anyone call an umbrella a bumbershoot in my nearly 40 years.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 29 March 2024 11:05 (six months ago) link
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumbershoot
checks out
― koogs, Friday, 29 March 2024 11:29 (six months ago) link
it's definitely a word, just not in common everyday use for most Americans. it's like folksy slang.
― jaymc, Friday, 29 March 2024 12:22 (six months ago) link
It's generally only used when one is adopting the voice of a pompous twit, for comedic effect.
― henry s, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:19 (six months ago) link
Is bumbershoot like Lollapalooza, an out of use antiquated term used only to name a music festival?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:22 (six months ago) link
^^^^^ yes
― Jaq, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:36 (six months ago) link
I've only heard bumbershoot used by Americans as a faux-Britishism
― bendy, Friday, 29 March 2024 13:40 (six months ago) link