Speaking of soup, one time I was named ‘soup di di’ by the kids I worked with in India.

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@skinnylatte And bring both to you in two containers?

Adrianna Tan

@mountdiscovery hahaha cutting chai

Adrianna Tan

@msbellows yes, soo instead of one large bowl of soup they give you two smaller bowls of soup but charge you for one

Adrianna Tan

Also reminded of how a smaller portion of tea is a ‘cutting chai’, like a chai you ‘cut’ in two

Sunanda

@skinnylatte I have had a one by two soup with my dad while waiting for our takeaway order for so many years!
And one by two coffee with my friends when we don't want the full caffeine kick.

Adrianna Tan

My friend always says ‘I will sit on his head’ (to make someone work faster, or turn in something late)

But that’s not as fun as all the people who have ‘passed out’ (graduated) from various schools. Hundreds of people passing out, all at once

Adrianna Tan

@Theorem_Poem so fun

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

@skinnylatte That's nice! The idea of eating less than a full portion is so unamerican!

Adrianna Tan

@msbellows not to mention that a one portion soup in India is like, 1/3 a full portion in America, so it’s really 1 by 6 probably

Hagfish fancier v4.02.01

@[email protected] a cortado comes from "to cut", the origins are slightly different but not unrelated

Simon 🥧 man 🥥🌴 🇺🇸

@skinnylatte I don't know much about Indian soup but I do love Thai tom kha gai soup. If only my wife loved spicy foods too so I could share it with her. It actually goes further, she just doesn't like hot liquid food of any sort, not even tea or coffee - except hot chocolate maybe

However I've long since embraced the America way of taking left overs of anything to-go and soup is perfect for that. I feel that in other cultures they bias to right sizing portions in the first place.

Adrianna Tan

@enmodo hot and sour soup in India is Indian Chinese. Very similar to American Chinese hot and sour soup but.. spicier

Adrianna Tan

@pagrus ooh good point