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This morning I’m reading about different types of ‘menu ordering style’.
So, what are you? A ditherer? A sharer? A pre-planner? Or something else?
I’m definitely not a ditherer,I don’t take much time to decide what to eat.Not exactly a pre -planner either, though I do often look at an online menu before going to a new restaurant.
Sometimes I’m a sharer but my partner doesn’t like it,she wants to have her own food not share with me;-)
How about you? If you go out with another person,are you ok with ordering the same food,or do you have to have something different?
And if you go out in a group,do you want to order something different from the others? Something familiar or something you’ve never had before?
This is now at least the second or third time I’ve met an American person in the wild called Camden. I understand why someone might want to call their child Chelsea as it is quite a nice-sounding name and Chelsea is indeed quite a genteel part of London, but as someone who actually grew up in the OG [Camden](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Borough_of_Camden?wprov=sfla1) I just don’t see what on Earth would possess someone to name their child Camden it doesn’t even sound that nice and it’s just very weird and I just I just no I can’t just no I can’t.
Do Germans in Namibia call their children Kreuzberg and Pankow? Do Quebeckers call their children Bagnolet, Bobigny and Boulogne-Billancourt? Who decides whether Bobigny should be a boys name or a girls name? I have so many questions.
The roadwork for the construction of the tram’s new southern line goes along one of the main arteries that takes a lot of people from the south side of the city downtown. The traffic there has been abysmal, for the standards of our city anyway. A while ago they banned through-traffic there. From what I understand it was because there’s a hospital there, and traffic light that through long stretches of road construction can be a true nightmare for emergency vehicles.
I drove there for the first time since the through traffic was banned recently, and… It was still horrible. I really can’t wait for that tram line to be built, I find myself in the area where the construction right now is quite often.
This time of the year is really nice for German produce… if you are into it. I quite like cabbage, broccoli, root vegetables, and I think they get a bit of unfair bad rep. It is definitely possible to cook them in interesting ways. My favorite at the moment is hispi cabbage (the conical one). It’s much more tender than the regular bullet cabbage you get here.
I also saw little kids selling quince from their garden . I really miss good quince. The cultivars we have in Turkey are so delicious, you can just eat them raw after peeling and slicing. The ones they have here are only good for cooking (though they do have Turkish ones in the Turkish supermarkets).
Have you guys ever tried quince? Medlars? Pomegranate (though this is more common, probably).
Yesterday’s prompt was [lesson](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/Inktober-2025-Day-29-Lesson-1258268063). Just two more to go >_<