OK, so I think everyone does this at some point. My turn.
This month, so far...the most common search string that's turning up my site is "xxxx". I guess they're pretty disappointed.
"Ta1s t0i", and "cart0on of the h0bbit" searchers would have just been redirected from my site to IMDb which is, of course, exactly where they should have gone in the first place. Hope they learned their lesson.
"B4nana br3ad" and "0tis spunkm3yer" searchers certainly found recipes, which I hope they enjoyed. "Zepp0li" searchers also found a recipe, though not for the traditional italian bread for which they were undoubtedly searching.
But the one that gave me a real laugh was the *several* people who got sent to my site by searching for "embarrased". When I saw that, I was surprised...until I did the search myself, and Mr. Google himself asked me ever so gently, "Did you mean: embarrassed?" And I realized instantly that, yes, indeed I did mean embarrasSed.
You see, I usually use spell-checkers when available, and look stuff up when I'm not sure. So I guess the average correspondent or reader might think I'm a decent speller. But I never did make that claim myself.
So now, my secret is out.
I can't spell.
I CAN'T SPELL, alright?? You happy?
Woe is me, I'm so embarrased...err...embarrassed.
Just a word on the Italian bread that shares the "z" name. I think the bread is spelled zeppole, but only because I recently had some of the delicious Italian doughnuts when my girlfriend and I visited her dad, an authentic Italian. This spurred me to look up exactly how to spell it, since she wasn't sure either. So there you have it. I could very well be wrong, even though I have haunting memories of spelling bees in middle school, which all but spooked me into a habit of triple-checking my spelling. :)
Hi Bret! I'm glad to know that, and it does make logical sense...'cause then to make it plural, you'd just change the "e" to an "i" and call it a day (I think)!
Personally, I've never had the z-bread. At least, I don't think I have. I've been to Italy twice, but not speaking the language it's hard to know exactly what you're eating! Side note: the first TWO times I came to Paris as a tourist, I ended up just randomly pointing to something on the menu and ended up with duck stew...BOTH TIMES. Duck stew doesn't interest me in the slightest. ;)
Anyway, this bread...you say it's doughnut-like. Mmmm....donuts... ;) Tell us more...
Well, I don't have the exact recipe, but making the zeppoli (zeppoles? zeppolas? zeppololos?) involved regular bread dough as opposed to cake-like dough, so they weren't exactly donuts as we know them. The dough was allowed to rise and fall a couple of times overnight. Her father then heated up some vegetable oil on the stove. While this was going on, they pulled the dough into ring shapes, then dropped them into the oil and let them fry for a while. It seemed pretty similar to making funnel cakes.
At any rate, they were delicious when they were done. We put powdered sugar on them, making them even more like a funnel cake, but she said you could eat them with essentially any kind of bread topping you could think of. All I know is that they were pretty darn good!
I think I remember you asking me how to spell things in college, right? I know Katie does that to me all the time nowadays. :) I'm the go-to speller, I guess. :)
Yep. In college, I didn't need a dictionary--I had a roommate.