Mmmm....cous cous

[girasol]

Yes, it's puss puss... not moose moose or fuss fuss.

What the bloody hell is wrong with you people?!

actually I'm becoming stupid with old age, I meant puss puss NOT fuss fuss, that's just silly.

 

[Biddlybee]

Depends how you rponounce fuss

 

[El Jefe]

where do you get the fat kinda couscous, much bigger and more succulent when it's cooked? Is it a different type or just prepared differently?

 

[Biddlybee]

sure it's not bulgar wheat?

 

[Melinda]

Yup sounds like bulgar wheat.

 

[crustychick]

I think you mean Mougrabieh.... and you can sometimes find it in Health Food Shops. It's lush-ness....

 

[Melinda]

Ah this stuff- fat and juicy.

 

[El Jefe]

Yeh ^^

is that mougrabieh?

 

[El Jefe]

sure it's not bulgar wheat?

yes

 

[Melinda]

Yeh ^^

is that mougrabieh?

Yep, and its the tasty.

 

[El Jefe]

Yep, and its the tasty.

cool - is it cooked the same way?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Ah this stuff- fat and juicy.

Oooh I likes the look of that I does!

 

[Melinda]

It needs more cooking than that- actual boiling for 20 mins in whatever sauce/ stock you want to serve it with.

 

[Orang Utan]

You pronounce it rhyming with 'puss puss', not 'moose moose'!

No you don’t

 

[Epona]

This is what happens when you have lockdown for the better part of a year...

 

[dessiato]

This is what happens when you have lockdown for the better part of a year...

You bounce a thread started 15 years ago? Is this the oldest bounced thread? We’ve recently had twelve year old threads, but I think this might be the current champion.

 

[Orang Utan]

You bounce a thread started 15 years ago? Is this the oldest bounced thread? We’ve recently had twelve year old threads, but I think this might be the current champion.

Epona didn’t. I did because I was listening to a podcast in which they were pronouncing it wrong

 

[Epona]

You bounce a thread started 15 years ago? Is this the oldest bounced thread? We’ve recently had twelve year old threads, but I think this might be the current champion.

Please pay attention, I was commenting on the bump, I didn't bump it...

 

[dessiato]

Epona didn’t. I did because I was listening to a podcast in which they were pronouncing it wrong

I know you bumped it.

I was responding to Epona commenting that this is what you do after twelve months in lockdown.

 

[dessiato]

Please pay attention, I was commenting on the bump, I didn't bump it...

I know.

I was commenting on your comment.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Epona didn’t. I did because I was listening to a podcast in which they were pronouncing it wrong

That's definitely not how it's pronounced. It's pronounced couscous.

 

[dessiato]

COUSCOUS | Pronunciation in English

COUSCOUS pronunciation. How to say COUSCOUS. Listen to the audio pronunciation in English. Learn more.

dictionary.cambridge.org

according to Cambridge there’s two correct, the proper, British, way, and the American way.

 

[Orang Utan]

But it’s an Arabic word (North African Arabic to be precise, don’t say couscous in the Middle East cos you’ll be saying cuntcunt)

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

No you don’t

But listen to how they pronounce quinoa. Weird. I thought it was pronounced keen-wa.

 

[Orang Utan]

But listen to how they pronounce quinoa. Weird. I thought it was pronounced keen-wa.

That’s a piss take

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

But it’s an Arabic word (North African Arabic to be precise, don’t say couscous in the Middle East cos you’ll be saying cuntcunt)

In which case, the pronunciation rhymes with moose.

الكسكس

That says Al K_s k_s.
Al = the.

The way Arabic is written is that the vowels are... don't know the word, diacritics? diacriticals? little accents, which are there when you're learning, but they don't put them there in regular text.

The equivalent of our u sound is the letter waw, و which when used as a consonant is a w sound, but as a vowel, it's more like oo.

With the Arabic Al k_s k_s - it only uses the root letters of the word, the vowel isn't formally written in regular text, but when learning, there would have been a little diacritic? that looks like the consonant W, و but when used in tiny size as the diacritic vowel, placed above, it would make it sound like Al koos koos.

 

[Orang Utan]

In which case, the pronunciation rhymes with moose.

Yes. That’s how I’ve always said it. My parents lived in Morocco and that’s how they said it

 

[Saul Goodman]

Yes. That’s how I’ve always said it. My parents lived in Morocco and that’s how they said it

I have a friend in Russia. He pronounces it кус-кус.

 

[stavros]

Does anyone agree that bulgar wheat is easily the best of these grains?

 

[Orang Utan]

Does anyone agree that bulgar wheat is easily the best of these grains?

No - they’re quite different anyway