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[kphoger]

I must say, though, now you've got me imagining a fancy Mexican restaurant somewhere in Chicago calling chilaquiles 'deconstructed enchiladas, with salsa de pico de pájaro' and then charging twice the price for them.  Kind of like how toasted day-old bread rubbed with olive oil and bits of yesterday's leftovers sounds fancier and costs more if you call it 'bruschetta'...

[JayhawkCO]

To be fair, there is a slight difference in the method of cooking scrambled eggs vs. an omelette though.

There is a slight difference in the method of cooking chilaquiles vs. enchiladas, too... 

But again, only because one was fried in the first place.

[Scott5114]

They manage to not pronounce Nevada correctly

IMHO, that's forgivable, considering the 'correct' pronunciation butchers the Spanish more than the 'wrong' one does.

But the Spanish word means "snowy" and most of Nevada is not snowy (it is the driest state), so we don't pronounce it like the Spanish because it doesn't mean the same thing as the Spanish word does anymore.

We basically stole the spelling and invented an entirely new, unrelated word out of it.

(Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words. If they did they wouldn't pronounce Martinez like that...)

[Max Rockatansky]

Maybe it is just me having visited Tahoe and Reno so much over the years, but I certainly associate Nevada with snowy conditions.

[kphoger]

Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words.

Oh, geez, it's like fingernails on a blackboard, to hear Brits try and say Spanish words.

[GaryV]

Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words.

Oh, geez, it's like fingernails on a blackboard, to hear Brits try and say Spanish words.

Brits try and say Spanish words

Or French. The T in "fillet" is not pronounced. But we can't spell, the extra L is superfluous.

[kphoger]

Or French. The T in "fillet" is not pronounced. But we can't spell, the extra L is superfluous.

Just from watching the Food Network, I've started to suspect they pronounce as a verb differently than as a noun.  You fil-AY a piece of meat and end up with a FILL-it.  I could be wrong.

[gonealookin]

Maybe it is just me having visited Tahoe and Reno so much over the years, but I certainly associate Nevada with snowy conditions.

Living in Northern Nevada as long as I have, I associate it more with windy conditions.  More so in the valleys east of the mountains than at Lake Tahoe itself, though it can blow at the lake too.  Sure, we get the snow in season, but the wind is all year.

[ZLoth]

Maybe it is just me having visited Tahoe and Reno so much over the years, but I certainly associate Nevada with snowy conditions.

From what I understand, the traffic numbers on US-50/Interstate-80, once you go beyond the Reno/Lake Tahoe/Carson City (and possibly Fernley) areas, majorly drop, with Interstate-80 having mainly truckers. I know I have driven Interstate-80 as far east as Wells, NV before heading north to Jackpot, NV and US-50 as far east as Austin, NV, but alas, both were in the months of September. I had vowed to drive I-80 and US-50 as part of a vacation once I left graveyard shift, but alas, I moved to Texas instead.

[Max Rockatansky]

Maybe it is just me having visited Tahoe and Reno so much over the years, but I certainly associate Nevada with snowy conditions.

From what I understand, the traffic numbers on US-50/Interstate-80, once you go beyond the Reno/Lake Tahoe/Carson City (and possibly Fernley) areas, majorly drop, with Interstate-80 having mainly truckers. I know I have driven Interstate-80 as far east as Wells, NV before heading north to Jackpot, NV and US-50 as far east as Austin, NV, but alas, both were in the months of September. I had vowed to drive I-80 and US-50 as part of a vacation once I left graveyard shift, but alas, I moved to Texas instead.

I'm more a CA 88, CA 4 and CA 89 kind of guy when it comes to my Tahoe Travels.  I-80 isn't bad east of Sacramento but it isn't my preferred route if I have the slightest bit of time.  US 50 is usually more frustrating once you get past County Route E16 given it drops to two lanes.  Both I-80 and US 50 in Nevada have their moments of scenery.  I tend to think I-80 gets sold short on terms of being a scenic freeway corridor in California and Nevada.

[Max Rockatansky]

Maybe it is just me having visited Tahoe and Reno so much over the years, but I certainly associate Nevada with snowy conditions.

Living in Northern Nevada as long as I have, I associate it more with windy conditions.  More so in the valleys east of the mountains than at Lake Tahoe itself, though it can blow at the lake too.  Sure, we get the snow in season, but the wind is all year.

Something that all four major deserts in the United States have in common.  The Sonoran Desert in the winter had some really strong winds that would catch you off guard during sunrise hours.

[gonealookin]

I'm more a CA 88, CA 4 and CA 89 kind of guy when it comes to my Tahoe Travels.  I-80 isn't bad east of Sacramento but it isn't my preferred route if I have the slightest bit of time.  US 50 is usually more frustrating once you get past County Route E16 given it drops to two lanes.

US 50 between Pollock Pines and Meyers is actually a very fun road to drive if you're on it when there's no traffic.  Eastbound is godawful on Friday afternoon/evening and to some extent on Saturday, westbound is dreadful any time after noon on Sunday.  Winter storms turn those into headline-making nightmare scenarios.  Midweek you can usually zoom along at a good clip.  Unfortunately a lot of the scenic aesthetic was reduced to charred sticks in the Caldor Fire in 2021, and it will remain pretty much that way for the rest of my lifetime.

Both I-80 and US 50 in Nevada have their moments of scenery.  I tend to think I-80 gets sold short on terms of being a scenic freeway corridor in...Nevada.

Uhhh, "moments of scenery" in very long drives on either highway.  Having driven both of those quite a few times, either one is an endurance test more than anything; I do prefer US 50 if I have a bit more time.  Almost all of Nevada looks best from a window seat at 37,000 feet.  There are always mountains in sight anywhere in Nevada, but unless you actually drive up into them, for example Lamoille Canyon in the Ruby Mountains near Elko, they all look about the same from the major highways.  Thank goodness for the 70 mph and 80 mph speed limits.

[Max Rockatansky]

To clarify, I would never pick I-80 over US 50 for scenery in either state.  I would say I-80 compared favorably to I-10 and I-40 in the  western and mountain states.

I can usually stomach US 50 during periods coming out Tahoe because I almost always bail onto E16.  E16 hooks up with a lot of fairly direct and little traveled foothill roads heading south towards Merced.  Pool Station Road, E15, J59 and Snelling Road are all in my regular rotation.

[JayhawkCO]

Also it's not like the British typically care about properly pronouncing Spanish words.

Oh, geez, it's like fingernails on a blackboard, to hear Brits try and say Spanish words.

I know I've brought this up in other threads, but if I hear one more "MAHRT-in-ez" when listening to Premier League soccer, I'll lose my mind. You've clearly heard the name "mahr-TEE-nez" before at some point and just choose to sound like a douche instead.