Ah, thanks. I’m really no expert in road building, so I never heard the word. 
If you had taken the macadamia nuts out of a recipe, but then added them to the final product, that product would also have been remacadamized.
So the Autobahn goes all the way back to Adam? Color me surprised.
I only know macadam because of Stephen King, who uses it regularly (as does his son Joe Hill, but he tends to include a lot of subtle tributes to his father. And unsubtle tributes to his father).
Yep, with a short stop at Adolf
You know that Konrad Adenauer, later first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and mayor of Cologne before the rise of the nazis, built the first Autobahn from Cologne to Bonn from 1928-32? And that the idea originally came from Italy, la autostrada?
I thought it was created by Kraftwerk.
That was only the homage.
I thought that Kraft made fromage.
I think suggesting that Kraft is cheese is considered aggravated assault against the whole of France.
I once had a “milk shake” in France; they have it coming.
Why, what sort of concoction did you receive?
I don’t know what a milk shake is in France, but where I grew up (northern New England), it was flavored, frothed milk. You know, shaken milk. A milk shake. If you wanted ice cream in it you ordered a frappe.
Oh my God! I didn’t know your proximity to Quebec brought such trauma. Your description is exactly what I got in France (and also Spain). It’s not a European thing; I’ve had decent shakes in Norway and (of all places) Russia.
Colder climates meaning ice cream was easier to make before mechanical refrigeration, perhaps?
That’s Tarmac. The word now sometimes used to describe the surface airplanes park on. Tar Mac.
Macadam developed a process for making a road bed. A made road. The process involves compacting a mixture of sand, gravel, water, in the correct proportions, with a road roller.
The idea of making a layered road bed goes back a long way: our word Street apparently comes from the same Latin source as Strata. Wikipedia says that the Macadam process dates from around 1820. I think tarmac is about a hundred years later.
Putting oil on roads to lay the dust probably dates from whenever oil was cheap enough, but the identification of a kind of tar that was suitable for sealing roads (“a sealed road”) was slow and difficult. The first tars got sticky in hot weather, and broke up in cold weather – still problems even now but only in extreme conditions.
In Aus, a milk shake included a small scoop of ice-cream, about 1"", before it was frothed. Without the ice-cream, it was “flavoured milk”, which was frothed on the same mixer that was used for a milkshake.
And when I was a kid in the USA, those things McDonalds sold were “thick shakes”. When McD came to Aus, they were just “shakes”, because McD had found that with 50 different state-based legal definitions of “Milkshake”, it was easier just to avoid that term.
Tarmac is short for tar macadam. It’s also a trademark.
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These are sometimes called metalled roads especially on OS maps. Metal from the Latin metallum meaning mine or quarry, as that’s where the stone and rocks came from.
A chemist would have a different definition of a metal, based on the elements position on the periodic table.
And an astrophysicist would call anything that isn’t hydrogen or helium a metal.
None of those 3 definitions would fully match what a lay person would call a metal.