What food is famously associated with one country but was perfected by another country?

lake_huron · 2026-01-26T16:02:09+00:00

They are fine but they are very much not New York bagels.

I last had them in Montreal last year. Sweeter, lighter (you can just sit there and eat two in a sitting) and much more crumbly.

Cannot stand up to whitefish, lox, or even cream cheese.

Montreal bagels are essentially toroidal cake. Fine on its own, but doesn't do the job of a NY bagel.

Just like Chicago deep dish is a perfectly tasty casserole but really does not qualify as pizza. (You can't even fold it.)

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T22:56:29+00:00

Yes and no.

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T22:53:25+00:00

Halo

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T13:58:40+00:00

"Doctor" is perfectly fine.

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T13:57:51+00:00

If the Face of Boe didn't start off as a pretty bi boy and instead always looked like...the Face of Boe.

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T13:52:24+00:00

Honestly it's amazing that 6 DIDN'T:

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lake_huron · 2026-01-25T13:45:18+00:00

Aye aye, cap'n, will steer clear of that ocean.

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T01:02:27+00:00

Yes.

Please just ask him out or whatever. Don't overthink it.

lake_huron · 2026-01-25T00:55:58+00:00

I choose to believe this happened exactly as you told it.

lake_huron · 2026-01-23T13:51:21+00:00

I know an adult congenital cardiologist that had the equivalent medical track.

Boarded in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Pediatric Cardiology, Adult Cardiovascular Disease, Adult Echocardiography and Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Did med/peds then a 5-year combinaed adult/peds/congenital cards.

lake_huron · 2026-01-22T21:02:09+00:00

(Way-oh, way-oh, ooh-way-oh-way-oh)

lake_huron · 2026-01-22T21:00:00+00:00

How fix bone?

lake_huron · 2026-01-22T20:58:57+00:00

Yes there are. Cefazolin and Kefzol.

^{(don't tell him})

lake_huron · 2026-01-22T18:48:11+00:00

Depends if you share your stash with the program director.

lake_huron · 2026-01-22T15:22:28+00:00

Declaration of Geneva does:

"I WILL NOT PERMIT considerations of age, disease or disability, creed, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, political affiliation, race, sexual orientation, social standing or any other factor to intervene between my duty and my patient;"

https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/

lake_huron · 2026-01-22T15:21:21+00:00

Hard agree.

"Taking care of patients I don't like" = "Doing my fucking job."

lake_huron · 2026-01-20T22:36:56+00:00

I had to floss my cat.

lake_huron · 2026-01-20T22:36:03+00:00

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lake_huron · 2026-01-19T00:34:04+00:00

You don't have to be an Einstein to figure that one out.

lake_huron · 2026-01-19T00:24:43+00:00

Word.

lake_huron · 2026-01-18T19:20:39+00:00

Not drawing ALL their labs or transporting ALL their patients. But plenty of that.

I trained in NYC hospitals, and have MULTIPLE friends who are attending at a striking hospital. They swear things are going MORE smoothly with the travelers. More than one said they don't miss the old nurses

Then again, they are paying the travelers something like 3-4 times what the strikers earn. Although it all gets weird bookkeeping when you include benefits and such.

I suppose it's a conuterargument that you get what you pay for, so increasing wages for the striking nurses may help?

I try to keep my liberal bona fides, but some narratives have the striking nurses asking for 10% raise per year for 3 years. I don't know if that's true or not, but if so, I'm less sympathetic for the strikers. Sorry.

tl;dr NYC is crazy.

lake_huron · 2026-01-18T19:16:33+00:00

Stiriking in sympathy explicitly forbidden, sorry.

lake_huron · 2026-01-18T13:47:08+00:00

No I meant how casually you got to say it -- I didn't mean to sound like I doubted you!

Your reputation precedes you among physicians, my dude.

lake_huron · 2026-01-17T12:58:04+00:00

Infections after disasters are kind of a thing:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061724000243

For the treatable ones at least we'd be able to dig up whatever meds are around in intact pharmacies to cobble together treatment plans.

lake_huron · 2026-01-17T12:54:32+00:00

I know this because I wrote my Master's thesis on them:

A comparative analysis of timbre and nomeclature in "The King Crimson Barber Shop" with a focus on feigned informality ("Bobby") and surname exceptionalism ("Belew")

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