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Re:Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO by Symbiote on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:21AM (#27995173)
I presumably made the same guess (spiced rice grains mixed with meat/veg), but British people have the cultural context to know what pilau means. They even a section in Tesco (not just a search, an actual section).

From Denmark, I can suggest brændende kærlighed (burning love, which for Danes is mashed potatoes and bacon), dyrlægens natmad (vet's night snack, rye bread with pâté, beef and meat jelly etc), æbleskiver (apple slices, round pancakes with zero apple).

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/shop/food-cupboard/dri...

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Re:Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO by ben_w on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:51AM (#27995363)
> æbleskiver (apple slices, round pancakes with zero apple)

That reminds me that the regional name for deep fried rectangular potato prisms in Berlin is “Pommes”, which is the French for apple, because everything else was dropped from the bowed French “pommes de terre friets”.

It’s a Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel situation ;)

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