Cornichons are only the very small whole pickles.

Wtf you mean, cornichons? Who the fuck is calling them cornichons? I've been Australian for nearly 40 years and I have never heard the word cornichons in my life.

They're a relatively sugary vegetable and prolific in European descended food so it would be a fair guess.

I thought dill pickles were called dill pickles, and cornichons were the tiny ones?

Yes! Mushrooms. Not sure why I picked carrots.

My ketchup is made from fancies.

In my area if you see "pickles" on the menu you get pickled cucumbers, but if you see "pickled cucumbers" on the menu you get pickled cucumber salad.

geezzz....them ancient Greeks could write some smokin fan fiction, huh?

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That’s a matter of funding, there is no reason we couldn’t fund it enough to get rid of all waits. But, for the record, people DO wait years for healthcare here too. I’ve been doing it. The difference is we wait because we can’t afford it. They triage based on need, we triage based on income.

> But what I would like to point out is that without doing any deep searching I found three different news stories about Canada, Britain, and Ireland where there are prolonged wait times for diagnostic procedures, like MRIs.

Do people think that healthcare is instant with private US insurance? It's fucking not...

My wife had chronic back pain and went to see an Orthopedist. Our insurance required her to do 12 weeks of physical therapy before she could get an MRI. The physical therapy did nothing for her and often times she came home feeling worse from her PT appointments than before she went in. The Physical Therapist said that if she had the MRI they'd at least know what they were dealing with and could maybe target exercises better to address the pain, but still insurance wanted to wait things out and see if things improved on their own.

After the 12 weeks were up, she got the MRI, it was a herniated disc as she suspected because she had a similar issue with her back when she was a teenager. So great, PT was never going to fix that. She needed back surgery. She made an appointment, had to schedule that out another 6 weeks before she could get a slot. A spot opened up after 1 week and they called her and asked if she wanted it. She of course said yes, she was in so much pain for so long she would have literally crawled over nails to get there. She called me so happy and excited, and then 30 minutes later called me back again in tears because the doctors said they couldn't give her the appointment because our insurance wouldn't be able to process the paperwork that quickly...

My wife works for the state of NJ. Our insurance isn't "bad", it's essentially the best available in our state, and since it's almost 100% covered by the state, we have the absolute best plan her job offers her.

And still my wife had to wait 18 weeks before she could have the surgery she needed to fix her back pain. She had a baby in September... Her back pain began in December and she didn't have surgery until May. She literally felt pain every time she lifted our infant child... Could you imagine how torturous that was for her? Can you imagine how difficult it is to comfort someone crying about not being able to care for her own baby?

But yeah go ahead and tell me how bad other countries have it with their scary socialized medicine...

The only people who get healthcare instantly are people rich enough to pay out of pocket for it. That is true in countries with and without socialized medicine. So let's fucking stop using it as an argument as to why the US system is better...

My anecdote is not an exception. US wait times are comparable to other countries with socialized medicine and if you think otherwise it's because of the propaganda we are fed to think such things.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-care-wait-times-by-country

Make it big enough and you can call it a burro.

Good news, here in America dental care is also tens of thousands. I’m looking at another 32k soon, and I’ve already spent double that. And I have what is considered good dental

Mushroom ketchup was a staple in the 18th century. Just ask James Townsend.

Cornichons are specifically small cucumber pickles, no?

Yeah, the old recipes for pickles didn't involve any vinegar. You added some salt, then let the bacteria add lactic acid for you. No need to add acetic acid.

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There’s like two dozen things it could mean based on each country. But there are really 3 major possibilities.

1. Private Hospital, Public funding. Public funds a major portion of patient bills, private enterprise provides care. Aka Medicare for all style. How most nations do it.

2. Public Hospital, Public Funding. All hospitals are government ran, payment is through taxation. Healthcare is completely a government enterprise. This is like NHS in the UK

3. Private Hospital, Private Funding, but extreme regulation. The best example are the Swiss, everyone is mandated to get insurance and things are tightly regulated. This is the model the Obama administration was trying to move us to, trying to get everyone covered.

Note Universal Healthcare is really about ensuring everyone has some basic level of coverage. Healthcare systems can still very a lot in what that coverage entails. In the U.S the term has become synonymous with Medicare for all, the first option. However it should be noted this is not the only way to ensure everyone gets healthcare coverage. It’s just an extremely popular one since private health insurance seems to be such a train wreck in the United Sates.

So there are a few possible reasons. Some buildings fell out of use because they built newer more modern buildings.

Some buildings were for religious purposes. So as people moved away from the ancient religions these buildings didn't serve much of a purpose.

Buildings were also subject to environmental destruction such as earthquakes, erosion, etc. A major earthquake is the reason why part of the one side is missing in the Colosseum.

But probably the biggest reason is that they were made out of useful or valuable resources like marble and iron. It was common for builders to take parts of buildings and in corporate them into new buildings to cut down on cost for construction of the new building. Take the Colosseum in Rome for instance. The Colosseum was partly made out of marble and most of its marble was taken and used in the construction of St Peter's Basilica and possibly used for private residences of the wealthy. Also with the Colosseum theives would drill holes into the building to steal the iron.

However if a building was repurposed for another use then the building would be frequently maintained. Take for instance the Pantheon in Rome. It's one of the best preserved ancient Roman building. In the early 600s AD the former Roman temple was converted to a Catholic church. As a result it was maintained and perserved.

It is in some regions & contexts in England (Example)

It's also sometimes called 'red sauce' as a comparison to brown sauce e.g. I'll be asked 'do you want red or brown' when buying a bacon butty from a shop.

This is because tomato sauce is less sugary, I believe.

Do not know what to do with that.

I believe ketchup used to be made out of, I think, carrots.

Nuclear power plants, too, hey. Zaporizhia, anyone?

Pickled onions too.