The ides of March are come

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Beware.

more thoughts, please.

Beware the Ides of March!

Consider them bewared.

It's such a shame that we no longer use the verb to be in forming the perfect tense in English. I've always considered this one of the most attractive features of French and German.

The Ides of March are come.


(Four years and no one has given the correct reply....)

Time for Bloody Caesar cupcakes!

Well...yesterday was "Pi Day". March 14.

You were supposed to celebrate by eating a Pineapple Pizza.

So you can celebrate both the 14th and 15th today, ... if you just "eat two".

I still don't know what the ideas of march are.

^^^^
Don't know if you're joking, but if you seriously don't know:

The midpoint of any month is the "ides" of that month.

Don't know how they figure it for February.

The fifteenth is the "ides" of most months.

Some fortuneteller warned Julius Caesar to "beware the Ides of March".

And sure enough that was the day that the Roman senators all carried out their plot, and stabbed Caesar to death. Each one plunged a dagger into him.

And its all retold in the Shakespeare tragedy "Julius Caesar".

As Caesar died he saw that his erstwhile friend, Brutus, was among the stabbers, and he famously said "et tu Brute'" ( and you too Brutus????), as Caesar breathed his last breath.

Who doesn't love that orange covered chicken in those Panda Café places in every shopping mall?

So after having some I googled "General Tso" to see who he was, and to find out what, if anything, he had to do with inventing the recipe for "General Tso's Chicken".

Turns out that the General had about as much to do with inventing the chicken dish named after him as Julius Caesar had to do with inventing the Caesar Salad.

Zip.

The Caesar Salad was so called because it was first served in the "Caesar's Palace" hotel/casino in Vegas.
Or that's the impression I always had.

General Tso was an early 20th century "general and statesmen" in China. He was from Canton, in southern China.

Shortly after Chiang Kai Shek fled to Taiwan from mainland China when the Communist took over the mainland- his personal chef invented the orange chicken dish. The chef considered it to be inspired by the cuisine of southern china. So he named it after a famous dude from southern China.

According to wiki folks in Canton don't even like "General Tso's Chicken" because "its too sweet".