Concepts I don't get
@arthurchappell (45002)
Preston, England
June 20, 2017 10:36am CST
1/. Street Food
Any food is street food If you dine alfresco,buying it or eating it outdoors.
If you take street food home and eat it behind closed doors, can it still be called street food?
Most places we buy our food are located on streets, if we take avenues, boulevards, roads, crescents. cul-de-sacs, squares, promenades, etc as streets in all but name.
2/. All roads lead to Rome
My street starts and ends in Ingol, Preston. Other roads lead to places nowhere near Rome too. London Road is so-called for an obvious reason. Travelling to Rome involves taking roads, flights or sailings (or the European Chanel Tunnel train route) to Italy and following the signs for Rome.
The phrase actually comes from The Romans, who built straight roads leading out and back to the heart of their Empire. later early Christian / Catholic propaganda used the phrase to suggest that whatever we might try to believe other than their religious dogma, we would eventually be drawn back to their creed. I expect many people stuck in gridlock on the M25 ring-road in the UK probably do start praying eventually hoping for the miracle of seeing heir families again one day.
Arthur Chappell
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
22 Jun 17
@LadyDuck didn't know Rome was not respected fully in other Italian regions
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
22 Jun 17
@LadyDuck I expect the Vatican takes the bulk of it too
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@LadyDuck (459742)
• Switzerland
22 Jun 17
@arthurchappell Rome is not respected by almost ALL the other Italian regions. They get all the money of the tax payers, they do nothing, but they lead the country.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49184)
• United States
22 Jun 17
The only street food around here is snow cones sold by a vendor downtown. 
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
22 Jun 17
@Tampa_girl7 we always had those here way before the term street food was created
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
22 Jun 17
@Tampa_girl7 nowadays they do curries, kebabs, sandwiches and just about anything as street food
@Tampa_girl7 (49184)
• United States
22 Jun 17
@arthurchappell hotdogs, ice-cream and snow cones are about the only things I've seen in America as a street food. When I lived overseas I saw a fellow that sold baked potatoes and another that sold large pretzels. French fries were a biggie too and the Italian ice-cream
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@celticeagle (159709)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Jun 17
We have another word for street food here. Can't think of the word right now. Slang for the facility where the food is fixed though.
If you get literal about it all roads DO lead to Rome. They lead to anywhere you want them to.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
20 Jun 17
Oh dear the people stuck in grid lock on the M25 Ring Road are probably wondering about that.
All roads here in my place lead to my home period.
All roads here in my place lead to my home period.2 people like this
@thislittlepennyearns (58290)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
20 Jun 17
Why do we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
20 Jun 17
@thislittlepennyearns excellent question - I guess a parkway is a road in proximity to parkland but the parking area should be the Park(ing)way. Another UK one is public and private schools. Public schools are exclusive to high-fee paying rich people - Private schools are open to more pupils
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
21 Jun 17
@Poppylicious yes, you may well be right -private schools can mean any school run independently of the State managed education programme
@Poppylicious (11133)
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21 Jun 17
@arthurchappell I have always thought that a public and a private school are the same thing. They are all fee-paying and even the high end exclusive schools offer places to less well-off children.
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@Kandae11 (53698)
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20 Jun 17
We could reason that 'street food' means food prepared out of the home. Which also means that you can stay home and still eat street food - when you order out for pizza. So taking street food home and eating it behind closed doors... well, it is still street food.
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
20 Jun 17
street food out here is really only found at fairs and stuff, kinda sad that
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Jun 17
@Lupita234 us too, we still dont have them around though
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Jun 17
apparently at one point, in the days of the roman empire, this saying became popular because all their roads did eventually lead from rome, or radiated out from it, on a side note
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@RasmaSandra (73892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
20 Jun 17
Certainly an interesting way to look at things.All my roads here lead to three places only home, the woods and the store. As for street food we really don't have any food sold on the streets in Riga, Latvia. People here enjoy the fast food restaurants but regular restaurants are very expensive. We could use someone selling hot dogs on street corners.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
23 Jun 17
@RasmaSandra often the way here in the UK too
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@RasmaSandra (73892)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Jun 17
@Lupita234 restaurants are plenty indeed but if you live here much too expensive to got to except for the fast food places, pizzerias and so on.
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@xFiacre (12644)
• Ireland
20 Jun 17
@arthurchappell to call something street food makes it sound so unappetizing. However people think it's special so they give away good money for it.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
21 Jun 17
@xFiacre it tends to be over-priced junk food
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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21 Jun 17
So, if I pick a road and just start walking I should eventually end up in Rome? Maybe I shall try that one day. :)
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@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
20 Jun 17
I would take the chunnel just to say I did it. They were still building it when I was there in 1989.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
21 Jun 17
@teamfreak16 I want to make the trip at least just once too
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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21 Jun 17
Honestly, it isn't that exciting. It's just a long magic tunnel under the sea which transports you straight into Europe. There's nothing to see, nothing to do ... The ferry is much more fun. :)
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