30 Things British People Say Vs What We Actually Mean.

[GUT]

The question is, what kind of cheese goes with pickle, without ham or any other kind of lunch meat? Is it a kosher dill, or sweet pickle? Processed cheese or something better like Swiss?

And why is there no ham involved in this sandwich?

Most I know tend to use one of the cheddar type varieties and as I said the POMS I know use either pickled onions or mustard pickles [think mustard sauce with small pieces of vegetables chopped in it] that sort does go exceptionally well with ham in my opinion.

[GUT]

Actually I have never tried eating beans with fried or scrambled eggs. However I still occasionally put ketsup on my scrambled eggs.

That's nothing though. Richard Nixon apparently liked ketsup on his cottage cheese. :{

Jeff

Love ketchup [tomato sauce] on eggs, know a lot of people who have it on cheese [after all what's a pizza] but not too sure about with cottage cheese, but always thought there was something weird about tricky Dicky.

[Pcdunn]

Hi Amanda,

I know Brits like beans on toast, and I can accept that, but what in heaven's name is cheese & pickle?

Jeff

The question is, what kind of cheese goes with pickle, without ham or any other kind of lunch meat? Is it a kosher dill, or sweet pickle? Processed cheese or something better like Swiss?

And why is there no ham involved in this sandwich?

[Mayerling]

I though the good ole US of A was the home of the baked bean.

Breakfast

Lunch or

Diner

But never got the POM way of eating them with bacon and egg and Tomato.

Actually I have never tried eating beans with fried or scrambled eggs. However I still occasionally put ketsup on my scrambled eggs.

That's nothing though. Richard Nixon apparently liked ketsup on his cottage cheese. :{

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Hi Jeff

Poor old Welles, I can sympathise.

On the other hand, I'm sure you've heard this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE

Hi Robert,

I believe that bit of business with the peas and Orson Welles was the basis of a segment on the old cartoon show "Pinkie and the Brain", with the Brain supposed to do a commercial and analyzing it to death.

There is another one where Welles was drunk himself while doing a commercial - not about peas.

Jeff

[Robert]

Hi Jeff

Poor old Welles, I can sympathise.

On the other hand, I'm sure you've heard this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE

[GUT]

I never tried it, but it does sound filling and good for some reason - served with warm coffee for lunch or so.

Jeff

I though the good ole US of A was the home of the baked bean.

Breakfast

Lunch or

Diner

But never got the POM way of eating them with bacon and egg and Tomato.

[GUT]

I have the concept of the sandwich down pretty pat (we do eat some on two slices of bread, but the roll is convenient too). ALso pickled onion is fine, as is pickled beets. But cheese and pickle? Even if the "pickle" refers to another item that was "pickled" the cheese does not thrill me. However, some American luncheon meats have bits of olives in them when sold. So who am I to complain about another country's tastes.

Jeff

Sorry Jeff wasn't trying to say you had know idea of a sandwich just pointing out the difference between a sandwich and a roll.

I know a few Americans who eat cheese and pickle [the pickled gerkin like MacDonalds seem to insist on putting on everything].

[Mayerling]

Oh and I love baked beans on toast, just my arthritis doesn't.

I never tried it, but it does sound filling and good for some reason - served with warm coffee for lunch or so.

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Can actually be one of a couple of things:

A slice of cheese, sure even Yanks know what this is? with either and I know POMS people who eat both and call it the same thing [I think it depends on where in UK they are from].

Pickled onion [a bit like cocktail onion but usually a larger onion] sliced up : or

Mustard Pickles [basically a mix of vegetables prepared in a mustard sauce and bottled] also often eaten with meat, both hot and cold, of various types.

A sandwich is two slices of bread, often with butter, with a filing between them [in most places not a roll as Americans seem to often use and still call a sandwich, on a roll you would have a cheese and pickle roll].

I have the concept of the sandwich down pretty pat (we do eat some on two slices of bread, but the roll is convenient too). ALso pickled onion is fine, as is pickled beets. But cheese and pickle? Even if the "pickle" refers to another item that was "pickled" the cheese does not thrill me. However, some American luncheon meats have bits of olives in them when sold. So who am I to complain about another country's tastes.

Jeff

[GUT]

Oh and I love baked beans on toast, just my arthritis doesn't.

[GUT]

Hi Amanda,

I know Brits like beans on toast, and I can accept that, but what in heaven's name is cheese & pickle?

Jeff

Can actually be one of a couple of things:

A slice of cheese, sure even Yanks know what this is? with either and I know POMS people who eat both and call it the same thing [I think it depends on where in UK they are from].

Pickled onion [a bit like cocktail onion but usually a larger onion] sliced up : or

Mustard Pickles [basically a mix of vegetables prepared in a mustard sauce and bottled] also often eaten with meat, both hot and cold, of various types.

A sandwich is two slices of bread, often with butter, with a filing between them [in most places not a roll as Americans seem to often use and still call a sandwich, on a roll you would have a cheese and pickle roll].

[Mayerling]

Hi Jeff

To be fair to writers, though, isn't it true that a writer's script isn't necessarily his own? He starts with his script, and he ends with someone else's. A writer can put in a script and by the time a director has 'improved' it, perhaps aided by his actors especially if they are superstars, a writer might feel happy just if his name stays on the script so that he'll get paid.

Hi Robert,

You do have a point. If you peruse movies on the IMDb website you will find many have more than one or two names on them for the screenplays. There was a classic one which was for the 1929 sound version of "The Taming of the Shrew" starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (then married). The credit for the screenplay was something like "William Shakespeare and Sam Katz". It would have surprised Shakespeare (or Bacon or Oxford or Marlowe or whomever it was).

One film I recently looked up is a 1973 version of "Treasure island" that starred Orson Welles as "Long John Silver". The screenplay was originally written by Welles, because back in 1962 or so he signed a contract to star in "Treasure Island" as Silver, using his screenplay (and probably directing). But the funding was not reached so the project got shelved. In 1973 the funding got reached, and Welles was contractually bound to appear in the film. No problem, except that the script was redone (no issue now about him possibly directing the work). He hated it, especially as there were several different voiced editions for Europe, and the actor dubbing him appears to have been a drunk. In the end, Welles got permission to have his name dropped from the credits, and replaced by "O.W. Jeeves", which was a kind of homage to his old friend W.C. Fields, who wrote a screenplay for a comedy as "Mahatma Kane Jeeves". So in the credit no "Orson Welles" appears for the script with the other four names. Just "O.W.Jeeves".

Jeff

[Mayerling]

I've always wondered whether Americans saying 'Right' and hanging up is just something in movies or is it the usual custom?
Do Americans say 'goodbye'?
I know us Brits make such a kerfuffle of ending the conversation.

Will share a few sayings used by my other half:


5. They were nice but.....(meaning : don't ever make me cheese & pickle sandwiches again)

Amanda

Hi Amanda,

I know Brits like beans on toast, and I can accept that, but what in heaven's name is cheese & pickle?

Jeff

[GUT]

We have a way of making 'not bad' have two completely different meanings. If we say 'not bad!' it means 'very good.' But if we say 'not bad' it means 'it's OK, but nothing special.'

Or even not bad, totally rotten.