Sorry! Thanks for fixing it.
Rubaiyat would be a pangram today. Omar Khayyam would be pleased.
I was pretty surprised Sam the foodie declined to include the spicy red sauce the letters would have allowed, for 9 points.
I give up.
Ditto.
Not accepting YTTRIA, which I suppose is understandable.
I always try this one. One day he will surprise me.
Which one?
The spicy sauce
I don’t know what it is either
Oh, sorry.
Arrabbiata. Presumably excluded because of its root in “Arabia”. Also, I think it’s 10 points.
Thanks!
I tried it and was disappointed. And the word, surprisingly, means “angry”:
Arrabbiata literally means ‘angry’ in Italian; in Romanesco dialect the adjective arabbiato denotes a characteristic (in this case spiciness) pushed to excess. In Rome, in fact, any food cooked in a pan with a lot of oil, garlic, and peperoncino so as to provoke a strong thirst is called “arrabbiato” (e.g. broccoli arrabbiati)
yep, 10, which I could have really used. just bad counting, not an attempt to obscure the right answer
Now do puttanesca
Lol, puttanesca is one of my favorites! I first ate it at a restaurant in Little Italy in the Bronx, NYC. The menu explained the possible name origins.
I wonder whether it will ever appear in the Bee?
Well eight different letters one of which is an S…
I’d rather he include arrabbiata than “arancino”, which I almost never see in the wild. Arrabbiata is featured in several NYT recipes and seems to be trending.
Tough one for me today. I got to genius, but the pangram eluded me. I hate it when that happens.
It does contain a word that uses the six outer letters, but not the central one … something I call a pain-gram. It’s a six letter word too, so a perfect pain-gram: ALMOND
I just went back to give it one more try and got it instantly. Weird how that works sometimes.
I call those a donut pangram. And I did spot the perfect one you did.
Ooh, that’s a good one!