Mmmmm, goulash

When the main food attractions for your country are goulash, big fat sausages, and something called pork knuckle, this may be an indication that your national cuisine is not considered very high-brow. Perhaps I've been spoiled with all the delectable French foods I've experienced this year, but overall we weren't incredibly impressed with the Czech eats we experienced.

What the country may lack in eats, however, is more than made up for with BEER. High-quality beer, and very often cheap. I kid you not, it was actually cheaper than bottled water in some restaurants. You gotta love a country where the beer is cheaper than water.

Today's French word of the Day comes to us courtesy of a conversation I overheard today in the lab during which one of the women was describing (I think) the remodeling of her house by some construction workers. The word she used was "chernobiliser", as in "La salle était complètement chernobilisé" ("The room was completely destroyed," or "The room was completely chernobilized.") Referring, of course, to the Chernobyl nuclear accident back in the 80s. I just thought it was amusing to hear Chernobyl turned into a verb.

Link for the Day: This movie about killer sheep looks like one of those which is so bad, it just might be good.