Yes it happened today and while at work. So I saw a coworker eating, what I had thought, a papaya (it was a calzone). I asked him where did he get the papaya (it was a calzone). He then said he got it at some local restaurant. Just a totally normal conversation. That was until a different coworker of mine and one of my friends asked me why I was calling the calzone a papaya. Told him papaya was Italian for calzone and wanted to sound fancy.
It took 5 minutes of me arguing that I was correct and that a calzone was indeed called a papaya in Italian. That was until they made me Google it.
Now I'm being made fun of (all in good fun) by all of my Coworkers. How I got this far into my life at age 28 thinking a papaya was Italian for calzone is a total mystery and now I'm questioning my whole vocabulary.
TL;DR: thought papaya was Italian for calzone. It is not.
Edit: so I've decided to say screw it and continue calling calzones papayas even though im incredibly wrong. A redditor supplied me with an imagine that I am putting on a t shirt. Here's the link:
https://imgur.com/gallery/0Gi5k4i
Taking its title from John Berger's TV series and book, the play examines how think tanks try to influence opinions on issues like immigration and surveillance - and how the privacy of the rich is of national importance while the rights of minorities and the poor are regularly transgressed upon. The play is a sort of documentary theater from the perspective of Hanan Benammar and Sara Baban who are immigrants to Norway, and how they perceive far right ideas being normalized in society. As part of the work, they shift the skeptical gaze back on participants of these think tanks, by filming their house facades and featuring it as part of the scenography.
It attracted huge amounts of controversy in Norway in 2018, leading to media outrage as a series of attempts at terror action and threatening cutout letters where sent to the house of the justice minister. Now in 2020, there is a court case going on against Laila Bertheussen, the ministers partner, for staging fake threats in an apparent attempt at framing the people behind the play.
The surrounding scandal is almost like a meta-play to the work itself, and the ongoing trial is continuously revealing how networks of people from media and politics collaborate to create antagonized portrayals of minorities and creatives in society. It is particularly striking how the opinions in the media shifted from indignation and condemnation of the play, to a more sympathetic stance and eventually an actual examination of its artistic merits. It should come as little surprise that many of the most opinionated never saw the play in the first place.Its gained some attention in international news, though I suspect a lot more will follow. Here is a recent article from The Guardian:
I made a podcast episode about this whole situation, talking to actor and co-writer Hanan Benammar about how the play came to be and everything that followed. Check it out here:
[https://soundcloud.com/user-840889577/um-conversations-hanan-benammar-ways-of-seeing](https://soundcloud.com/user-84088957
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Also, are there religious/sectarian (Catholic vs Protestant) and generational implications, and how can you tell if someone named say Erich Maria or Marie-Joseph is a man or a woman?
^(*are there any spreadsheet people here who can put all the info in this post into a sortable table?)
Most of us who hate money and torch it by ordering food delivery from DoorDash, etc., are aware of "ghost kitchens".
For those who aren't familiar -- a ghost kitchen is a concept which was brought about due to Covid. Restaurants were going under because nobody was coming. So, someone had the idea that 3 or 4 smaller restaurants would close their doors and rent kitchen space from a larger restaurant so that they could still do delivery. It's a great idea, win win!
Like any good idea it didn't take long before corporate money turned it to shit.
In this case, we're talking about Brooklyn Calzones.
I lived in and around Brooklyn, NYC for fifteen (15) years so I was excited/hesitant when I saw the listing near me on Doordash because I'd never heard of the place and I keep up with what's going on around my area.
There were a few immediate red flags.
- Every calzone costs >$16. (a proper calzone in NYC is $4.50 tops)
- Every calzone is named after a neighborhood in Brooklyn (almost). The ingredients are completely random. The belly laugh came when I saw that 'The Heights' (my hood, not in Brooklyn) is made with pesto chicken. Washington Heights is 99.9% Dominican. I was so confused about how they thought they were going to make a calzone out of stewed chicken, rice and mashed plantains. Nope. Pesto Chicken and mozzarella. Right, okay.
- A google search for "Brooklyn Calzones OKC" returns basically nothing but a buried address.
So I reverse look-up'd the address and it's the address of a really terrible cardboard and fake cheese pizza joint near me. They only charge, like, $12 for a large supreme so I was really curious about the $16 personal calzone from the same address under a different name.
I called them.
Long story short: I asked who designed the "Brooklyn Calzones" menu that they're baking in their kitchen.
He told me point blank, "DoorDash or Uber Eats."
These delivery companies are creating restaurants out of thin air and charging insane prices for food with absolutely zero QC and then doubling the price again for the delivery.
Meanwhile, the little guy who was renting kitchen space gets pushed out by someone who's not even there.
Taking its title from John Berger's TV series and book, the play examines how think tanks try to influence opinions on issues like immigration and surveillance - and how the privacy of the rich is of national importance while the rights of minorities and the poor are regularly transgressed upon. The play is a sort of documentary theater from the perspective of Hanan Benammar and Sara Baban who are immigrants to Norway, and how they perceive far right ideas being normalized in society. As part of the work, they shift the skeptical gaze back on participants of these think tanks, by filming their house facades and featuring it as part of the scenography.
It attracted huge amounts of controversy in Norway in 2018, leading to media outrage as a series of attempts at terror action and threatening cutout letters where sent to the house of the justice minister. Now in 2020, there is a court case going on against Laila Bertheussen, the ministers partner, for staging fake threats in an apparent attempt at framing the people behind the play.
The surrounding scandal is almost like a meta-play to the work itself, and the ongoing trial is continuously revealing how networks of people from media and politics collaborate to create antagonized portrayals of minorities and creatives in society. It is particularly striking how the opinions in the media shifted from indignation and condemnation of the play, to a more sympathetic stance and eventually an actual examination of its artistic merits. It should come as little surprise that many of the most opinionated never saw the play in the first place.
Its gained some attention in international news, though I suspect a lot more will follow. Here is a recent article from The Guardian:
I made a podcast episode about this whole situation, talking to actor and co-writer Hanan Benammar about how the play came to be and everything that followed. Check it out here:
[https://soundcloud.com/user-840889577/um-conversations-hanan-benammar-ways-of-seeing](https://soundcloud.co
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