Monkeylord
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Don't forget to make it the last item in the first box moved... it's of utmost importance that once in your new place the first thing to do is to stick the kettle on.
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Weird Americanisms (UK vs USA thread)
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Don't forget to make it the last item in the first box moved... it's of utmost importance that once in your new place the first thing to do is to stick the kettle on.
AllIsOneIsNone
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This thread is really funny, thanks for the laughs. As for cornbread: If you english are "keen" to try it, be careful to judge, bad cornbread is really dry and bland. Good cornbread on the other hand, is moist, sweet and delicious. It's really a dessert without being a dessert.
QuicheFontaine
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Excellent point.
Monkeylord
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I've tried it once, and honestly... I was convinced it was cake until someone told me it was cornbread. It certainly made more sense that it was served up at the same time as chilli after the explanation of what it was.
Corn bread has an entirely different texture though
I can't really tell much difference except it's a little milder. I also like Bovril on toast. It might even be better to be honest. Always buy Marmite though for some reason.
Cos that's the Guinness edition.
Monkeylord
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Then one of several possibilities occurred.
1. It was bad cornbread.
2. It was actually cake, and I was having the piss taken out of me.
3. Cornbread and cake are different, but not different enough for a fully grown adult who was trying cornbread for the first time to be able to tell the difference.
I'm guessing it was either 1 or 3 as it was in a restaurant. Either way, texture aside, they definitely tasted identical enough for me to think it was cake.
Sutton Dagger
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You sir have officially ruined your chance of ever visiting Australia, border security are on the look out for yeast extract heathens.
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AllIsOneIsNone
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I'd say it's 1, the texture of cornbread is really distinct, and the taste is also pretty different.
Oh, and if you've never tried grits before, mix it with scrambled eggs, cheese and bacon all mashed up (with some pepper and salt, onions or whatever else you would normally have on your eggs). It's not really an American thing to do that, but its a breakfast of the gods.
Salad in the UK (based on my experience only) is basically and vegetable you can eat cold, doesn't really matter if its a few bits in a burger our something like a caesar salad.
Ace Harding
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Is flat sausage (bottom right) a thing in the US? I've been a couple times and never seen the king of breakfast.
Looks kind of like scrapple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple
Not really a nationwide US thing - some Americans have never heard of it. But fairly popular in the Mid-Atlantic. I can walk into most decent places that serve breakfast sandwiches here in Philadelphia and order a scrapple egg and cheese, for example.
Very popular sliced and pan-fried, often served with eggs. So good. You just don't want to see the ingredient list (like that Scottish sausage, I imagine).
Monkeylord
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Shape aside, it is literally just caseless sausages, flattened into a square shape (well, stuffed in a loaf tin, sliced and then grilled/fried).
Chance Hale
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Misread Bazza's response, ignore.
Have never heard of just lettuce being referred to as a salad though.
Have never heard of just lettuce being referred to as a salad though.
So you can tuna fish!
Ace Harding
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Ah OK. Scrapple just has the same shape. But its literally the "scraps" of the pork, including organ meat.
You do see caseless sausage served as breakfast meat here sometimes. Its usually just flattened into a vaguely round shape like a small hamburger.
It is good. I can only eat like one or two slices at a time though - its so rich and salty. I also am pretty sure eating more than two slices at a time would cause instant stomach cancer.
I think you are right there, it just seems obvious what is 'salad' and what is a vegetable to me - but hot/cold is probably the logic behind it.
Of course we have 'cesar salads' etc... Just if you order a meal which comes with 'salad' you would expect some sort of mixture of lettuce/tomato/onion/pepper, maybe dressing, maybe just on a burger etc... Whereas if you order a meal which comes with 'vegetables' you would expect a bit of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots etc...
I bought a small, ceramic one so it can fit into my microwave.
Monkeylord
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Nobody says "let's go get a sandwich and fries." It's a burger, east, west, north and south. Technically, a burger is a type of sandwich, but not colloquially. Burgers and fries, baby.
You are both weird.
It's named pineapple after the similarity to the pine cone; what is more, when Columbus discovered a Pineapple in 1493 he referred to it as piña de Indias, Pine of the Indians.
Lol wow, not everyone in the UK speaks with some terrible chav-like accent where the words aren't pronounced properly. That's like saying everyone in America speaks with the most stereotypical southern accent you can imagine; Full-on hillbilly.
Also, silent letters such as the U's in words are there to tell you how to pronounce a word. Colour without the U would make it Colon but with an r replacing the n.
Also, what kind of shitty ass-tier kettles do you have in America that it seems to take 15mins to boil water!? Granted the older one's can be slow, but the new one's are pretty quick. Also how do you bring water to a boil in a microwave, you'd always have to find something to cover the cup to stop it splashing everywhere?
I do admit though that using stones for weight is fucking stupid. Mostly it is used by the older generation. Same with yards (barring sport).
Also, silent letters such as the U's in words are there to tell you how to pronounce a word. Colour without the U would make it Colon but with an r replacing the n.
Also, what kind of shitty ass-tier kettles do you have in America that it seems to take 15mins to boil water!? Granted the older one's can be slow, but the new one's are pretty quick. Also how do you bring water to a boil in a microwave, you'd always have to find something to cover the cup to stop it splashing everywhere?
I do admit though that using stones for weight is fucking stupid. Mostly it is used by the older generation. Same with yards (barring sport).
EleventhDoctor
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We don't, at least they didn't when I was at High School, when I did it at college though it was far more accurate than the picture you describe, highlighting the importance of the French and that, if not for them and our lack of passion for holding the colonies we may never have lost them.
That's a bit wrong because in Spanish a pineapple is called a piña.You are both weird.
EleventhDoctor
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So this was in a Science Fiction Literature class?
killer_clank
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They don't really teach it - there's way more important things that happened in this countries history than that, though obviously it's the exact opposite in the USA.
Also I've found that it's called the War of Independence rather than the Revolutionary War
The English didn't even care that much back then let alone now.
According to South Park the British still think their in the Revolutionary War.:-D
Jake Tower
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No, that's just unnecessary French in your spelling.
We wasn't taught it (though, I didn't take History up to GCSE).
I think that it is taught either for GCSE, or for A Level - but by that stage, the whole thing is about ignoring bias and less about narrative.
That doesn't make sense since there's still no consistency, so what's the point. '-our' has several pronunciations.
Funnily enough the book we were studying that made such (accurate) claims was written by an American iirc.
Don't shatter their dream that we are all still licking our wounds over the time Mel Gibson beat us up (along with attributing atrocity's committed by the Nazis in WW2 to us...).
Ace Harding
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Ah so it was the formidable French army and British indifference that enabled the Americans to wain the war. Interesting.
French Navy actually, and British weariness at fighting wars all over the globe for a long time, we were spread far too thin.
Not taking away from the colonists though, they had some impressive strategists and balls of steel.
If DVDs took 3 times as long to play a movie this would work.
I almost think you guys think we're talking about a metal pot or something you put on the stove. It's an electric thing, you put a mugs worth of water in and 30 seconds later it's boiled.
Most of us don't drink tea like that. No one is buying a kettle for the occasional cup of hot chocolate they drink during cold weather times. If you need more water than that, you can use a pot and a lid.
The drip coffee machine is much more ubiquitous in the States, as said up thread.
EleventhDoctor
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Is that a Magic Microwave that can boil water in 30 seconds rather than just make it lukewarm?
Also, you can't pick a microwave up and pour water out of it. Well, you can, but you shouldn't.
EleventhDoctor
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No need to. The cup that contains the water is the same cup I'll be drinking out of.
So... while the water is boiling you just sit there waiting, then add tea/coffee/milk/sugar when it's done? Rather than do all that while the water is boiling? Sounds boring, especially when it takes 3 times as long to boil.
Arjen
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Those barbarians probably heat up the water with the tea already in the cup.
SeriousApes
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I'm American. My parents use an electric kettle for instant coffee.
Cerebral Assassin
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Does that microwave have a setting where it turns itself off once the water has boiled? If not it is an inferior way to boil water.
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