Day 1,252: maven
For a while, McDonald’s in Germany offered a “Grilled Texas Bagel”. That is a nonsensical phrase to a deli maven: a decent bagel belongs nowhere near a grill and has nothing to do with Texas.
https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/11/24/the-vanishing-delights-of-americas-jewish-delis
Artwork of the day
The Flotsam Dilettante and the Little Visitation That Only a Derelic Could Understand
Robert Williams
Style: Lowbrow Art
Genre: figurative
Word of the day
maven: a person with good knowledge or understanding of a subject
Quote of the day
“Maven stares after his fleeing brother. “He does not like to lose. And”—he lowers his voice, now so close to me I can see the tiny flecks of silver in his eyes—“neither do I. I won’t lose you, Mare. I won’t.”
"You'll never lose me.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen