u/alicethrough

Hello Chester, nice to meet ya!

I'll be arriving in your beautiful city tomorrow on a very last minute trip. Therefore, I need advice. Since I'm traveling with an elderly relative who doesn't speak any English at all, I'm trying to come up with activities that won't depend on me translating everything (😅)

So, is there any good second hand/charity shops in or around the city center, or any flea markets worth spending time in?

Additional question, what's the best way to move around? Public buses? Uber? Especially if we want to leave Chester for a day (I'm thinking Flint because of the castle ruins)

Hello Italy! I'm trying to settle (possibly win?) an argument among the staff of the Italian restaurant i work at (outside of Italy). We have a dessert on our menu under the name "tortina" - I understand this just means a small cake, and it makes sense for the dish.

Recently, one of the waiters has taken to presenting the dish to our customers (majority non-italian, so they wouldn't know) as "pastina" and every time I hear it I just think of pastina in brodo. It irks me so much but as I'm not Italian myself and have actually never set foot in Italy, I have no ground to stand on.

So I thought I'd ask. Is there any region of Italy or any Italian dialect where the word "pastina" means a small cake or cookie? What do you think or what are your experiences?

For additional info: my chef (northern Italian) said "pastine" could mean a selection of small cookies. A former staff member (southern Italian) would just laugh every time the dessert got called pastina. And the dough we use for this dessert is very similar to what I know as pasta frola, which is fairly common where I come from due to lots of Italian immigrants bringing their cuisine in the 19th and 20th century.