Food 'Aha' Moment
Tuesday, 4 July 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
da Tvaroh == Quarg == Quark.
At T. & B.'s going-away party this evening, the hosts, who are Slovak, served tvaroh cheese with rasins. "Hm," I said, "this tastes just like kvark" (spelled Quark, from German). And indeed, T. pronounced it nearly the same as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tbiedl did, just with a different aspiration at the beginning and a slightly different gutteral at the end.
What is it? Cheese curd. Wet, or pressed into a block, or crumbled. It's all good stuff.
wikipedia says the cheese possibly named the fundamental particle, as well:
In German, Quark [...] may be used figuratively to mean "nonsense". This usage is believed to be an inspiration for the sentence "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which itself, it is claimed, inspired the name of quarks, elementary particles of which most of the material world is built.
...at this party I also had fun talking with Dan's secretary about her boyfriend's work environment, and withpnijjar about solving a few of my work problems too.
Oh, and the idea of a zip-line between the CN Tower and the Cornell Bell Tower? Totally not my idea. No really, it wasn't.
At T. & B.'s going-away party this evening, the hosts, who are Slovak, served tvaroh cheese with rasins. "Hm," I said, "this tastes just like kvark" (spelled Quark, from German). And indeed, T. pronounced it nearly the same as
tbiedl did, just with a different aspiration at the beginning and a slightly different gutteral at the end. What is it? Cheese curd. Wet, or pressed into a block, or crumbled. It's all good stuff.
wikipedia says the cheese possibly named the fundamental particle, as well:
In German, Quark [...] may be used figuratively to mean "nonsense". This usage is believed to be an inspiration for the sentence "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which itself, it is claimed, inspired the name of quarks, elementary particles of which most of the material world is built.
...at this party I also had fun talking with Dan's secretary about her boyfriend's work environment, and with
pnijjar about solving a few of my work problems too. Oh, and the idea of a zip-line between the CN Tower and the Cornell Bell Tower? Totally not my idea. No really, it wasn't.
