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Brazilian Cooking Expressions

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I did hear this in a meeting this week. It was an answer for this simple question — "what are those circles and what do they represent?" Answer: These are hypothetical placeholders for digital core components that will turn into leverage able emotional motivators. WTF? If you know what that means, PLEASE leave me a comment!!! As a good Brazilian cook who cannot stand seeing people embarrassing themselves in meetings anymore, I translated a bunch of very useful Portuguese Expressions (all related to food) that can be perfectly used in almost every business situation. Hey, all you "Leverage a Robust Application via AI" people, take a look, maybe you will make more sense in your next meeting! It's not apples to apples, it's mangoes to papayas. Quem não chora, não mama. One who does not cry, does not get nursed (you have to fight for what you want) Eu quero mais é vender meu peixe! What I want is to sell my fish (to promote myself/my comp

The salad with no green

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My daughter is in her school's theater group, and I always have to come up with "non-voice damaging" dinner solutions to bring to her before the performances। Salads work great because I can put them in a cooler with ice packs and not have to be there at cast/crew dinnertime. Last weekend, I had an extra challenge: I was bringing a friend from work who will not eat anything that is green, and he was helping me out setting up the concession stand, so I had to bring dinner for us as well  I remembered this jewel from old times in Brazil, worked like a charm, daughter and colleague were happy (and it took me 10 min to make it, the night before, it does not get soggy) Dressing: 1-cup mayonnaise 2 tablespoons ketchup ½ tablespoon olive oil 1-teaspoon mustard Salad 2 carrots Shredded chicken (breasts work best), as much as you want —I would do a whole breast. 1 cup shredded carrots 1 can corn ½ cup frozen peas ½ cup raisins (can be o