Microblog Memes

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Lori??

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Iirc it's an Armenian semi-soft cheese.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_(cheese)?wprov=sfti1

[–] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

So it is! TIL

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 17 points 3 weeks ago

Lori deez nuts, lmao gotem

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[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 41 points 3 weeks ago

And Bert is short for Camenbert.

[–] SnerkRabbledauber@lemmy.today 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Colby.

[–] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Jack

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

These are my sons Cream Cheese Jr and Kraft Singles

[–] DakRalter 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is my sister, Dairylea.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 21 points 3 weeks ago

The missing Limburger baby.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

John Cleese's original family name was Cheese, but his dad changed it because it was silly

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well now I have to link this clip and I deliberately chose the audio only version because it's so much better than any other.

SHUT THAT BLOODY BOUZUKI UP!!

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[–] inari@piefed.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Always fun how Americans pronounce "parmesan" as "parmezhan"

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[–] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

the original Italian is parmigiano, so a soft g/j sound is actually more accurate than a s/z sound

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[–] Apepollo11@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yes on the first point - it's closer to how the Italians pronounce it. But Parmigiano and Parmesan are not the same word.

The English word "Parmesan" comes from the French word "Parmesan", which is pronounced, you guessed it, with a s/z sound.

The soft g/j is not more accurate, because it's a different word. It's an over-correction.

FWIW, the word was in English nearly a whole century before the first British colony in America. It really is a word that existed and folk in America changed the pronunciation of.

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[–] scbasteve@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wonder if it came from all the italian immigrants that came over.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

In our defense, Italians kept coming here and eating Parmesan. It makes sense we'd pronounce it closer to the Italian

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Parmezany!

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 15 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

Our unique pronunciation comes from Philadelphia, where they use the word "jawn" to mean "thing." They called it "that parma jawn", meaning like "that thing from parma" but the j became a zh over time.

source: I made it up

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[–] kiterios@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Unironically though, I do think that is how i say it. It's parmesan Luc not parmesan Grey.

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[–] Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, but that's not unique to Americans or even the English language. In German we write it the same (Parmesan) and pronounce a soft s in that place.

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[–] aaaa@piefed.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Why, how do you pronounce it?

In a way easily described as dialect?