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Side dishes on an Iranian food table
If you ever go to a Persian restaurant or have food with an Iranian family chances are that you'll find quite a lot of side dishes. These can be different food to food, based on how they taste when eaten along with the main dish.
1. Yogurt (ماست)
One of the most favorite side dishes that is often served with rice is yogurt. Yogurt is cold and smooth, a spoon of cold yogurt feels really good in mouth after some hot rice. Some mix some mint and little pieces of cucumber with it to make it taste even better.
2. Tursu / Pickles (ترشی/خیارشور)
Tursu is pieces of specific kinds of vegetable kept in vinegar for a rather long time. There are lots of different kinds of Tursu which their main difference is the types of vegetables used in them. Along with all different Tursus, there are two specific kinds of them: pickles which are little cucumbers kept in water-salt solution often without vinegar which turn dark green, and Sir-Torshi which is basically garlic kept in vinegar for 6 months up to 7 years which tastes incredible; specially with fish.
3. Olive (زیتون)
Olive is a popular side dish, specially with kebab. But olives are rarely used without being soaked in special sauces. There are a ton of different recepies on how to "marinate"(!) olives. Often involving soaking the olives in powdered walnuts and olive oil.
4. Sabzi Khordan/Leaf vegetables (سبزیخوردن)
It is a salad-like mixture of uncooked vegetables. Contents are different from place to place and from family to family based on the traditions, availability of the vegetables and the taste of family members, but it usually contains a mixture of radish, scallion, chives, basil, parsley, cress, pennyrile, coriander, bell peppers, and tarragon. You may pick some with each bite of food you take. With some dishes, specially dizi and kebabs raw cut onion are served too.
5. Salads (سالاد)
There are two kinds of salads that are really popular, lettuce and Shirazi. Both are really simple salads. Lettuce salad is pretty much like caesar salad without the chicken. And Shirazi salad is little cubic pieces of cucumber, onion, and tomato with a mixture of vinegar, verjuice, and lemon juice with a pinch of salt.
6. Naan (نان)
Naans are big flat bread that is the main substitute for rice in Iranian dishes. (Rice is a rather big part of the most Iranian dishes)
We make sandwiches with whole pieces of it or make small bites with smaller pieces.
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The most shocking plot twist in a movie?
What was the most shocking plot twist you have ever seen in a movie? To prevent spoilers, I'd recommend just mentioning the movie name and not explaining the plot twist itself.
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nice to talk... or nice talking....
Which one is more correct, sounds more natural, is more likely to be used by a native English speaker?
- It was nice to talk to/with you
- It was nice talking to/with you
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The point that presidential candidates miss, intentionally
There's an ongoing race for the 12th presidential election in Iran and it's one the hottest topics in these days. One of the issues that all 6 candidates agree upon is the need for jobs. There are different unrealistic promises to create millions of jobs.
The point they're missing is that there are lots of jobs out there which require skilled engineers and workers. The main problem is that people are either unskilled or too lazy to accept a job other than sitting behind a desk, doing nothing and getting paid at the end of the month!
The root cause of this problem is the ineffective education system that can not provide graduates with enough skills for their jobs. There are a wide variety of reasons why things are the way they are which I'm not going to explain in this note, but the point is no candidate mentions reforms in the education system. They try to create jobs by the expansion of oil refineries and mass building of homes.
According to past experiences of such projects, it's obvious that if these plans would be implemented, there would be a lot of unproductive jobs created, a dozen of corrupt people would steal huge amounts of money from the budget and in the end, no favorable output will be made. Most of those who are eligible for voting are non-far-sighted people who like this kind of jobs (hoping that they would be one of those corrupts, who get rich overnight). Those who don't want to get education system fixed for their children to solve this issue permanently, those who are too lazy to improve their skills to be able to get a decent job.
Also, it's pretty obvious that construction and oil refinery projects will not create jobs for people with all different educational backgrounds. The most important groups of unemployed people here are those who did not get an engineering or medical degree. This kind of projects will not create jobs for these people.
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Discrimination based on wealth?
I am looking for a word that describes someone who discriminates people based on their wealth. Something like "racist" for wealth, not the race and ethnic background.
I don't know if such word exists, yet I think it worths mentioning that if it does, there may be words for two different kinds of this phenomenon: 1. people who don't respect poor people as much as wealthy and 2. people who don't respect the rich and may think that rich people are the reason why the poor are poor.
I would appreciate your help to find words with similar meanings as above
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How do you read "i.e." and "e.g." out loud?
While reading a text out loud, or speaking about something, you may come across these abbreviations: "e.g. = for example" and "i.e. = I mean/it is (rephrasing, or narrowing down the topic)"
So how do native speakers pronounce them? Do they pronounce them like ee-gee and eye-ee or they say "for example" and "it is"? Or they pronounce them in another way?
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Difference between "expurgation" and "censorship"
As a language would not make two different words for one phenomenon, there must be a difference between expurgating something and censoring it, even a slight, subtle one. So which one is more appropriate in which context?
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What's the difference between "surmise" and "allege"?
They are not listed as synonyms as I checked, yet I think they have pretty similar meanings: supposing something is true even if it's unproven and there are not enough supporting facts.
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