Baltic buffet
English translation: buffet including a high proportion of seafood
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| 11:40 Jan 25, 2006 |
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|  Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 08:08 | ||||||
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| 4 +9 | buffet including a high proportion of seafood |
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| 5 +1 | Open sea food sandwiches |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1| baltic buffet Open sea food sandwiches Explanation: Half a roll with a great pile of dead sea animals and plants on it. Delicious, can we all come please? |
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peer agreement (net): +9
peer agreement (net): +9buffet including a high proportion of seafood Explanation: The Baltic area is renowend for its seafood, so using this term in a food context usually implies that the buffet will contain things like (for example): smoked salmon prawns various forms of herring, like roll mops etc. crayfish and other such delicacies (might even include caviar!) Mike's suggestion that it involves open sandwiches COULD be right, but I don't think you can take that for granted --- they might even have called it a "smorgasbord" in that case. But to me, the 'Baltic' always conjures up primarily the sea and seafood, without conveying anything specific about the presentation... |
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