Category: General Info

Apple Adds Cream Cheese to Bagel Emoji After Complaints

The people tweeted and Apple listened. The tech giant debuted more than 70 new emojis for the developer and public beta channels – including several food-themed graphics – with the release of iOS 12.1 on October 2, but critics immediately took issue with how Apple chose to depict a bagel.

Per the original emoji release earlier this month, the plain bagel was shown without any butter or cream cheese, an apparent sticking point for breakfast lovers across the world. As one naysayer tweeted alongside a photo of the “naked” bagel at the time, “I’d like to report a hate crime.”

Even Philadelphia Cream Cheese weighed in on the controversy by “fixing” the bagel and tweeting, “Hey @Apple and @Unicode, Your new bagel emoji definitely needs an upgrade. Don’t worry, we’ve fixed it for you. You’re welcome.”

However, per a tweet from Jeremy Bruge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, Apple has now fixed its earlier mistake. “Responding to complaints, Apple’s bagel emoji has been updated in the latest iOS 12.1 beta,” Bruge tweeted on Monday, October 15, along with a split photo of the before and after bagels, the later of which is shown with cream cheese.

https://twitter.com/jeremyburge/status/1051967143808516096

“More details. Are you happy now, New York?” Bruge added. “Apple’s old bagel design was totally fine to convey the concept of ‘bagel.’ There’s no doubt the new one looks more appetizing though.”

According to Emojipedia, bagels are more tricky to design than one would think. “Designs from major vendors until now had been split on whether to include a filling in the bagel or not,” the site explains. “Arguably, a bagel with cream cheese is a different item to simply a ‘bagel’, however as each emoji generally represents an entire class of objects, that’s unlikely to be an issue in practice.”

Alligator Dishes

Examples of dishes that feature alligator meat:

– Cajun Style Grilled Alligator with Comeback Sauce
– Picadinho de jacaré of Brazil

Brazilian cuisine varies from region to region and has been influenced by the Portuguese, Spanish, Africans, Italians, Germans and Japanese.

Examples of Homegrown Delicacies:

Picadinho de jacaré – A dish made with the meat of an alligator.
Caruru – Sun-dried meat, beans, goat and corn meal.
Feijoada – Simmered meat & beans.
Tutu de feijão – A paste of beans and mandioca flour.
Moqueca capixaba – Braised tomatoes and fish.
Mandioca – A type of sweet potato.
Yams – Also a type of sweet potato.
Peanuts, pineapples and passion fruit.

Almost all imports thrive in Brazil and are grown and used with great gusto locally.
Mangoes and guavas, papaya, oranges, hog plums.

Brazilian classics include

Chouriço – Spiced sausage.
Salgadinhos – A cheesy bread.
Pastéis – Crispy Brazilian Wontons (turnovers) stuffed with Heart of Palm. You can also vary the stuffing to include cooked, diced shrimp or chouriço if you prefer).
Cuscuz branco – A ground tapioca pudding.
Pinhão – Local pine nuts that grow in the Brazilian pines in the south of Brazil.

The Churassco
Brazil have their very own gauchos (cowboys) in the Pampa regions who, like their Argentinian brothers, enjoy a good barbecue, known locally as a churrasco. The difference lies chiefly in the fact that the meat is grilled on huge skewers.

Paris–Brest

A Paris–Brest is a French dessert, made of choux pastry and a praline flavoured cream.

The round pastry, in the form of a wheel, was created in 1910 by Louis Durand, pâtissier of Maisons-Laffitte, at the request of Pierre Giffard, to commemorate the Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race he had initiated in 1891. Its circular shape is representative of a wheel. It became popular with riders on the Paris–Brest cycle race, partly because of its energizing high caloric value, and is now found in pâtisseries all over France.

In 2000, Balsan’s Paris-Brest was named the “best of best dessert” in the United States by GQ. Balsan was an upscale brasserie in Chicago. It has since closed.

Paris Brest, Hazelnut Nougatine – $9