It was so cold that...

[Steadmund Brand]

By the way.. the black jelly beans have hit the shelves here.... so my training for our Olympics has begun!!!! the gold will be mine this time


Steadmund "USA" Brand

[Steadmund Brand]

Actually what Americans serve as Ketchup or catsup or however else they spell it is pretty similar to what Aussies and Kiwi's call Tomato sauce, ours is probably a little thicker and not as sweet, but not really a great difference, what American's [or ones I've known anyway] call tomato sauce we call Pasta sauce.

Not a great fan of Wikipedia but they seem to have it pretty close here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_sauce

Though I also know that in the USA things can be called different things in different areas, as happens perhaps to a lesser degree here.

Because we in the USA call things by their proper names... USA USA USA!!!!

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

... And catsup (or Ketchup) is no more "tomato sauce" than "salad dressing" in a British tea-shop is mayonnaise, lol.

Actually what Americans serve as Ketchup or catsup or however else they spell it is pretty similar to what Aussies and Kiwi's call Tomato sauce, ours is probably a little thicker and not as sweet, but not really a great difference, what American's [or ones I've known anyway] call tomato sauce we call Pasta sauce.

Not a great fan of Wikipedia but they seem to have it pretty close here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_sauce

Though I also know that in the USA things can be called different things in different areas, as happens perhaps to a lesser degree here.

[GUT]

Hi GUT,

I know of a decent restaurant where you can get better than average Shepherd's Pie or Chicken Pie (but not a decent steak and kidney pie - as far as I can remember).

Jeff

Shepherd's pie and Chicken pie are all right a steak and kidne pie's OK but a real pie should be a bit like a steak and kidney pie [not steak and kidney pudding mind you] without the kidney.

So a pastry top and bottom with a filling of meat in gravy either mince meat or chunks of beef, the pastry should be firm enough so you can hold it in one hand and eat it while holding a drink in the other, preferably [though some argue over this] with sauce on top.

Now if you want a fancy one you have it with a scoop of mashed spud on top the mushy peas then gravy, but that needs at least a fork.

[Mayerling]

Yep [too sweet for me]

With a name like GUT you think there's much I haven't tried.

And never understood why I can't get a decent meat pie in America or even some beetroot on me burger. My goodness a burger without beetroot what is the world coming to I thought you people invented burgers.

Hi GUT,

I know of a decent restaurant where you can get better than average Shepherd's Pie or Chicken Pie (but not a decent steak and kidney pie - as far as I can remember).

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Yeah, GUT, but have you Bakavalaed?

Bakavalaed? Wasn't that an incident in the Crimea during the War of 1854, the "Charge of the Tums Brigade"?

"Half a bite, half a bite, half a bite onward,
into the valley of indigestion road the six hundred.
Forward the "Tums Brigade" - all of the men dismayed
Soon they all whispered - "Our bakers blundered!!"

[Errata]

Errata,
There are a number of Tennessee folks on the paranormal forum I post on... You folks all have a wicked sense of humor, lol!

Our official State Last Words are "Ten bucks says I can!"

Here's the theory. If it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye, than the most fun you will ever have is in that split second before someone loses an eye. So the goal is to get as close to losing an eye as possible without actually losing an eye.

And I don't know what the hell is up with us and ghosts. We can rarely be stirred by other phenomena like Chupacabra, Bigfoot, we aren't even that much into aliens, and that is where rednecks have really planted their flag in the supernatural world. But everybody is in graveyards with a date and an EM detector. And relatively speaking we aren't even that haunted. Louisiana, North Carolina, Virginia, lousy with spooks. We got like three. We even have a dead guy on permanent exhibition in our state archives, and the archives can't even produce a little light flicker. It's embarrassing how our dead apparently stay dead. This is the South dammit. We are supposed to RISE. It's like a humiliating spiritual erectile dysfunction problem.

[GUT]

What about a spring roll or a couple of fried dim sims, Gut?

Don't like dim sims, Springy's are great or a Chiko's my fav in that type of stuff but these ignoramuses would have no idea what that is. Or even a Pluto.

Go to's when I'm no the road and have to eat while I drive.

[Rosella]

What about a spring roll or a couple of fried dim sims, Gut?

[GUT]

Beetroot is basically your plain beet or table or garden beet, also sometimes called red beet, it is boiled with vinegar and sugar, then sliced and used as a salad vegetable, a burger ain't a burger without beetroot, now all the other things you listed are fine by me too.

Perfect burger

Meat
Bacon
Egg
Cheese [cheddar or blue or pretty much any other sort]
Lettuce
Tomato
Carrot
Beetroot [of course]
Avocado
BBQ sauce
Tomato Sauce
Mustard Sauce
Pineapple
Onion [naturally]

If I'm being really wicked a potato scallop or potato cake.

Usually can't fit much more on.

Then to wash it all down, maybe a 2nd one.

[Pcdunn]

Errata,
There are a number of Tennessee folks on the paranormal forum I post on... You folks all have a wicked sense of humor, lol!

[Pcdunn]

"Beetroot" wtf??

Yep [too sweet for me]

With a name like GUT you think there's much I haven't tried.

And never understood why I can't get a decent meat pie in America or even some beetroot on me burger. My goodness a burger without beetroot what is the world coming to I thought you people invented burgers.

Beets come in cans and jars.

California grows a lot of sugar beets, and make sugar from them.

Whatever "beetroot" is, it does not belong on an American burger. Onion rings, on the other hand... Jalapeņos, bacon, cheese... Or on the West Coast, avocados, sprouts, lord knows what.. I like a nice bacon cheeseburger, myself.

I think the Germans invented ground beef, and frankfurters, but Americans invented the hamburger and the "hot dog"... And catsup (or Ketchup) is no more "tomato sauce" than "salad dressing" in a British tea-shop is mayonnaise, lol.

[GUT]

Yeah, GUT, but have you Baklavaed?

Yep [too sweet for me]

With a name like GUT you think there's much I haven't tried.

And never understood why I can't get a decent meat pie in America or even some beetroot on me burger. My goodness a burger without beetroot what is the world coming to I thought you people invented burgers.

[Errata]

I have no idea if they have Slurpees or not, but it's best to translate strange terms in an international community... And besides, these folks eat beans on toast, bangers and mash, and cheese and pickle sandwiches-- so they're already pretty weird... ��

It's not about weird. It's about chemical warfare.

I don't know about west coast and Yankee kids, but down here, we have Slushies, and we have Slush Puppies. Slush Puppies you make to order. So you half fill it with ice, and put in three times as much of the tartest syrup they have, usually blue. Then you make a regular one. You keep the regular one and pound it down, and your friend doesn't want to look like a baby, so they gulp down on the one that can strip paint. In an hour they still have the freezy headache, chemical burns in their mouth, and are more wired than a Jack Russell Terrier on cocaine.

And then you spend the rest of the evening scaring the crap out of them. Because it's funny, but also because it's rude to return them to their families in that state. You gotta work it out of them before they go home or their mom will call you mom and then you get lectured. But if you ever see an 11 year old vibrating on the ground clutching their chest shouting that they are going to die with a red or blue stain around their mouth... they've been pupped.

[Pcdunn]

Hey I ain't no POM nor even a Yank but I eat all of the above, or have at times, including slurpee's.

Now where you all [both sdes of your pond] seem to miss out is on good stuff like Lamingtons, Tim Tams, Pavlova and Vanilla Slice, go figure

Yeah, GUT, but have you Bakavalaed?