Posts by wiredpilot5

What kind of new gimmick is this now?

I tried a piece of that meat-filled burek for the first time about two years ago.
I took one bite and immediately spat it out. 😁

The whole thing just felt wrong, like my body was trying to reject it.
Just greasy dough stuffed with some mystery meat... I had no idea where it came from, what it was, how old it was, or if flies had been crawling all over it... 🤮

Basically, when someone here in the States says burek, they usually mean the cheese version.
But Americans don't go running to our neighbors from Canada, Mexico, or Canada to lecture them or claim that burek is strictly cheese and everything else is just some kind of pastry. 😁

Though if I'm being honest, burek is pretty mediocre—it's basically junk food I eat only when there's nothing else around. Pizza is easily three times better.
Still, I guess it beats eating canned meat on bread.

ironcobra13 said:I don't get why people care so much when Americans call a meat pie just a meat pie.
It’s not like we care if someone calls soup "broth" instead of soup.
Or a train a locomotive.
Or a house a home.

As far as I'm concerned, a meat pie is a meat pie, plain and simple.
Cheese pie is cheese pie.
And apple pie is apple pie.
That's just how it is.

This whole debate doesn't really have anything to do with soup, carrots, trains, or oceans...
The real issue is that people from Canada will try to correct you the second you call a cheese pie a "meat pie with cheese."
I've dealt with it more than once. It gets exhausting.
They're annoying because they don't realize they're actually wrong. I bet they even try explaining what a meat pie is to Turks, even though it originated with them.

So, it's really just about people trying to lecture you when they don't even know the facts themselves. If they were actually right, I might have an argument, but they aren't.

hiddenmarlin14 said:I mean, I've always felt that true burek should only ever contain meat. Everything else is just some kind of pastry or savory turnover—cheese pies, potato fillings, or fruit strudels... just different names for the same thing, I guess. 🤔 Or? 🤷

That’s not really how it works. I guess you could say that in Canada, a burek only counts if it has meat in it. But everywhere else—Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Mexico, probably even Georgia, Albania, and all over the US—you can find some kind of version of burek.
I guess people in Canada were just as out of the loop as they are in Turkey and everywhere else down in the Southeast, so they probably ended up thinking burek is only made with meat.

Walter Baker2 said:I’d rather not go naming names, but I think everyone knows who

Seems like there's plenty of people looking for trouble here... but was there ever an actual poll anyone actually cared about?

I guess there are maybe 3 or 4 decent chickens on the list.☕

England vs Germany 1:3
Sweden vs Ukraine 3:0

We had our chances. I guess if that shot from Andrej Kramarić had gone in at the start of extra time, or if Ante Oršić had connected... we might have had a shot. Just my thought.
We were honestly too naive with those goals we let in. Our defense hasn't been up to par for ages. Even some tiny little teams out there seem to defend better than we do. But whatever. We're small, but we hold our own.
If we actually had a population like the Spanish or the Italians instead of just 4 million, we’d be beating everyone. Even now, we’re giving them trouble. It’s pretty wild what we pull off.

France 3:0 Switzerland
USA 2:0 Spain (I'm just hoping we don't get absolutely crushed 5:0 by the Spanish... if our guys spent their recent training camp in Istria hitting the local bars instead of practicing.. 😁

wiredpilot5 said:USA - Scotland 3:1
Czech Republic - England 0:1

If I had placed a bet $33 how much would I have actually made?

USA 3:1 Scotland
Czech Republic 0:1 England

Sweden vs Slovakia 1

USA vs Czech Republic 1

England vs Scotland x

I was thinking about giving it a 7.2, but I guess that isn't an option here...