Language/Accents

[Dickere]

Ok Londoners….when I was about 20 the seafood guy came into our local. Cockles and mussels etc. I decided to try jellied ears. They were freezing cold and completely tasteless. Surely they aren’t always like that?

You can have hot eels, but jellied eels have to be cold for it to be jelly of course. I much prefer pie and mash with liquor 'green gravy'

[Ms Diddles]

Heathens.

Agreed!

[Aethelwulf]

Agreed!

Only time it's acceptable to have chips, pizza and kebab for breakfast is when still wasted from the previous night/ early morning.

[Herlock Sholmes]

Only time it's acceptable to have chips, pizza and kebab for breakfast is when still wasted from the previous night/ early morning.

I do like cold pizza. Probably more than I like hot pizza. My mate would get up in the morning and eat the leftover curry cold. But this was a man that once ate a bottle of English mustard washed down with a bottle of brown sauce for a bet!

[Aethelwulf]

But this was a man that once ate a bottle of English mustard washed down with a bottle of brown sauce for a bet!

You know some strange people herlock.

[Aethelwulf]

Something I heard today that always makes me laugh is when people say things like:

• 'I don't mean to be unkind, but .....(what I'm about to say is very unkind)'
• 'Now I'm not racist, but .....(extremely racist comment on the way)'

Is it just us lot that do that or do other countries do it?

[Abby Normal]

in the states potatoes for breakfast is big. two main types-hash browns which are deep fried. think mcdonalds hash browns, and the variation tater tots.

and breakfast potatoes. which are chopped up or sliced small pieces of potatoes cooked/ browned in a frying pan mostly with a little bit of onion and green pepper thrown in and cooked with them.

both are yummy and an integral part of any proper american breakfast!

[Herlock Sholmes]

You know some strange people herlock.

I certainly did in my younger days. That guy, around 20 at the time, went on to become a director of an engineering company. He retired at around 50. Lives abroad somewhere now.

[Abby Normal]

Only time it's acceptable to have chips, pizza and kebab for breakfast is when still wasted from the previous night/ early morning.

yes!!!!!

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Something I heard today that always makes me laugh is when people say things like:

• 'I don't mean to be unkind, but .....(what I'm about to say is very unkind)'
• 'Now I'm not racist, but .....(extremely racist comment on the way)'

Is it just us lot that do that or do other countries do it?

It's the "I call a spade a spade", which generally translates as 'I cause offence'.

[Abby Normal]

Ha!

It is exactly as it sounds, Abby.

It's gotta be cheap white sliced bread (no fancy sourdough here!) and it's fried in veg oil (although perhaps meat eaters would do it in lard, I'm not sure)!

It's simple, but weirdly delicious with tomatoes, mushrooms or (you guessed it), beans!

no thats just weird. lol

here in md we have something called scrapple, which i believe is only a mid atlantic thing (although it seems like it should be a total southern thing). but its mainly a maryland thing.

what is scrapple? its what they sweep up off the floor after theyre done making sausage. and then its all ground together and sold in big cubes. you slice it and then fry it in a pan. its gray, has a kind of grittiness to it and tastes basically like bland low quality sausage. people absolutely love it here. I know i should too being a marylander and ive tried. god ive tried. but i just cant its some nasty shite.

[Aethelwulf]

what is scrapple? its what they sweep up off the floor after theyre done making sausage. and then its all ground together and sold in big cubes. you slice it and then fry it in a pan. its gray, has a kind of grittiness to it and tastes basically like bland low quality sausage. people absolutely love it here. I know i should too being a marylander and ive tried. god ive tried. but i just cant its some nasty shite.

you should work in food advertising. Gotta say sounds pure ming

[Wickerman]

Yeah, I've had the Dutch cheese and bread thing and heartily approve.

Oh my god that sounds like constipation central, I thought thats the kind of thing you got in prison a century ago.

Loved the pancakes in the US and Canada.

I love pancakes, but the first time I had them in the US was on vacation in Florida. I don't know if it was a local 'thing' but they brought out a pile of about 10 all on a skewer, each about the size of a CD. They weren't made like batter, but more like cake. It was like eating round thin slices of ordinary cake, they were terrible.

[Abby Normal]

Oh my god that sounds like constipation central, I thought thats the kind of thing you got in prison a century ago.




I love pancakes, but the first time I had them in the US was on vacation in Florida. I don't know if it was a local 'thing' but they brought out a pile of about 10 all on a skewer, each about the size of a CD. They weren't made like batter, but more like cake. It was like eating round thin slices of ordinary cake, they were terrible.

what? never heard of pancakes on a skewer. lol. theyre served stacked up on a plate usually and bigger than a cd. two of them is a short stack, four a tall or big stack.

[Wickerman]

Anyone who likes their food can't go wrong if you go to Egypt, if there's one thing most Egyptians do well is cook food.
Avoid the water, salads, ice, etc. at all costs, but you don't need a menu when you order food, whatever they bring you, you will love it.
I was in Egypt for three weeks last October, from the pyramids in the north to Abu Simbel in the south, and most sites in between.
Egypt is a food lovers dream, but I did miss a good Tim Hortons coffee.