Indeed!!
The girls in my class didn’t have to do pull ups. They did the “flexed arm hang”, basically, how long can you hold yourself in the ‘pulled up’ position. Us boys had to do pull ups.
And pull ups were the ONE thing I could do a little better than some of the stronger kids, because I was so skinny and undersized. Less weight to raise.
Dough balls just went in the fridge for a 48 fermentation. Yes !
Can’t wait to see this week’s creations!!
YEAH!!
I so remember the girls doing the flex arm hang. Then, Judy just started rattlin’ off one pullup after the next. It was enough to shut up our asshole teacher. Precious moment of quiet splendor.
Pizza crust?
I was thrilled when they killed smoking in pubs and restos. I don’t think I ever got a hangover after that. It wasn’t the beer, it was the smoke.
Pet peeve:
Some HOs elsewhere summing up most Greek food as “oily and bland”.
I’m having a defensive reaction.
The “oily and bland” comment comes across as a wee bit xenophobic and snobby.
Same goes for people who sum up Chinese food or Indian food in 3 words.
I read the post you’re referring to, and the comment was specifically about one section in one restaurant’s menu, which is certainly not an indictment of the entirety of Greek cuisine.
" Restaurant Meteora - Gkertsou Family - Our big disappointment. This place gets widely recommended for the ‘Grandma Kaiti’s’ part of the menu which features long simmering stews. Oily and bland, just the kind of Greek food I avoid in the US."
I posted here, because what is on my mind is how defensive I become.
There are also these comments, which second the OP.
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To each their own, still comes across snobby to me. Just one person’s opinion.
And that is certainly your prerogative.
ETA to address your edit: Exactly. It’s one person’s opinion. I wouldn’t let it bother me all that much, but YMMV.
Okay well, now I know what’s on your mind.
Cheerio
You have no idea 
Usually reflects on the people expressing said opinions, not the cuisines.
But I get why you’d be triggered / defensive. Natural reaction for cuisines one considers one’s “own” — especially when it’s an incorrect generalization of someone’s individual experience.
For some cuisines, it can be reflective of missing knowledge more than anything else.
I realize the OP is enjoying his trip.
I’m happy he is having a revelation that Greek food can be delicious.
He now knows he is not a fan of lathera-style braised vegetables, in the USA or Greece.
If anyone doesn’t enjoy the Greek slow cooked vegetables that are often drenched in olive oil at restaurants, definitely avoid ordering dishes that have lathera or ladera in their name. That lathera/ ladera means the vegetables will be cooked with a lot of olive oil (lathi/ladi).
Maybe explaining about dishes with “lathera” or “ladera” in their name/description would be helpful for the person who complained about oily and bland in that thread?
I don’t understand getting upset about someone else’s tastes, or personal preferences in food. If someone told me they don’t like a certain type of German dish it wouldn’t trigger me. I did not invent German food, so I have no investment in a random stranger’s likes or dislikes of it 
I don’t care for a few cuisines as a whole, and there are specific dishes in cuisines that I like as a whole I don’t care for — even German ones (sauerbraten comes to mind, or boiled Eisbein). Maybe I’m a bad German, but people like different things. That is all.
I did.
Before the ban on smoking there was a dim sum restaurant that we used to frequent that had lots of space for smokers, but a long lineup of non-smokers waiting for a table. I used to wonder why on its own the restaurant didn’t make the whole place non-smoking. The wait for a table on the weekend was significant.
Back in college in the mid to late 80’s, just as the ‘No Smoking’ trend was starting to take hold, there were a number of on campus restaurants that went full Non-smoking before being legally required to, and a smaller number of staunch holdouts that kept smoking sections as long as legally permitted, even, it seemed, at the cost of turning away diners that didn’t want to sit next to smokers.
Most of them had owners who were veteran smokers and had a chip on their shoulders about discrimination against smoking.
shrug people choose the weirdest hills to die on.
I remember my university cafeteria having smoking and non-smoking sections. Like the smoke cared about signs 
— I was in the smokers camp back then, btw.
Every summer we go back to Berlin I am absolutely flabbergasted by how many people still smoke. Everywhere. It’s not legal in restaurants anymore, or any business that makes money predominantly from slinging food, but 2-3 of our favorite cocktail bars still allow it. We didn’t go to any of them this summer.
