"this will pair well with smoked eel"

[Jeff Grossman]

This was written about a 2018 spatlese.

Who writes such things? Who even knows such things? Do Germans eat eels? Is smoked eel suddenly chic among social media influencers?

Talk about a tin ear.

 

[mark e]

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
"this will pair well with smoked eel"This was written about a 2018 spatlese.

Who writes such things? Who even knows such things? Do Germans eat eels? Is smoked eel suddenly chic among social media influencers?

Talk about a tin ear.

Chic, maybe not. But smoked eel is widely available in Europe. And the pairing does not seem that odd, either.

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by mark e:

originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
"this will pair well with smoked eel"This was written about a 2018 spatlese.

Who writes such things? Who even knows such things? Do Germans eat eels? Is smoked eel suddenly chic among social media influencers?

Talk about a tin ear.

Chic, maybe not. But smoked eel is widely available in Europe.

Including UK, if it was a British writer. It's often served in places there that feature local and traditional ingredients.

 

[MLipton]

I’m with mark on this. Smoked fish of any sort (which I generically love eating) is a hard match for most wines. Assertive high acid whites do about the best in my experience, though many might argue for chilled vodka instead.

Mark Lipton

 

[MLipton]

And what’s up with the font substitution these days? It’s not like I’m putting strange Unicode into my text, just a fucking apostrophe.

Mark Lipton

 

[Florida Jim]

Contractions and certain punctuation have been outlawed by the politburo.
Adjustments need to be made - maybe the server switch will amend the law.

 

[Claude Kolm]

But â has magically appeared.

 

[Zachary Ross]

It's enough to make one believe in progress.

 

[BJ]

The Book of Eels, by Patrik Svensson, is a wonderful book, highly recommended.

Eels have a long culinary history in Europe. They are however in heavy decline.

 

[Marc Hanes]

originally posted by MLipton:
And what’s up with the font substitution these days? It’s not like I’m putting strange Unicode into my text, just a fucking apostrophe.

Mark Lipton

It appears to me a function of how the underlying code handles ASCII text vs. curly/smart quotes. Even in the block quote of your text above I can see that the apostrophe is curly/smart quote text.

Straight and curly quotes | Butterick’s Practical Typography

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Perhaps you are using a browser or such which automatically defaults to curly/smart quotes. It doesn't seem to happen with other accents or diacritics. One thing to try is type something using a lot of single and double quotations marks. Paste it into TextEdit on a Mac or Notepad on Windows. Then cut and paste *that* into the forum. And see what happens. In my experience this has been common enough. Particularly with older forum software.

 

[Marc Hanes]

I will also add that *for me* the forum software has lost the ability to create paragraph breaks. My post just now consisted of three paragraphs but was smushed into one by the software.

I have been inserting HTML code
to fix this but it's annoying.

 

[Marc Hanes]

I will also add that *for me* the forum software has lost the ability to create paragraph breaks. My post just now consisted of three paragraphs but was smushed into one by the software.

I have been inserting HTML code < br >< /br > to fix this but it's annoying. (And here I had to edit the code or it actually broke the sentence in two, hah.

 

[Jeff Grossman]

Yeah, I've been entering < br / > to make open lines.