quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: You Brits and Aussie call everything pudding. In America, 'sticky date pudding' would probably be labeled date bread, or date cake. We think a pudding should be smooth, soft and creamy.
Do the Brits have a separate word for "real" pudding? (i.e. the soft creamy kind)? If they do (as in crisps, fries and chips), I'll let it slide, but if they seriously use the same word to describe a weird bread-thing as a gloppy tasty goo, that's just ridiculous.
It's worse than that. British people can't actually tell the difference. If you put the two in front of them and asked for the gloppy goo, they wouldn't know which one you meant.
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British people call pudding 'Angel Delight'. Only it's not really pudding because you don't cook it.
Of course, apart from calling cake pudding, there's also my favourite, Black pudding (made of pig blood - it's so yummy) and Yorkshire pudding (made of Yorkshire).
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They don't even say the whole word, even. They just say pud. What's for pud? I'm making pud. Pud's on. If that doesn't speak of low standards, I don't know what does.
From now on, all sex is quicky.
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I'll have some wingnut cheese and a Yorkshire pudding. I knew those little yapping dogs had to be good for something.
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quote:Originally posted by Jamio: They don't even say the whole word, even. They just say pud. What's for pud? I'm making pud. Pud's on. If that doesn't speak of low standards, I don't know what does.
From now on, all sex is quicky.
First time I heard breakfast called "brekky" in New Zealand, I wanted to hurt someone. Preferably, a Smurf.
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Estos americanos. En Cuba le decíamos al vino vino y al pan pan. Aquí le dicen al pan "bread" y al vino "wine."
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quote:Originally posted by Icarus: ::shakes head::
Estos americanos. En Cuba le decíamos al vino vino y al pan pan. Aquí le dicen al pan "bread" y al vino "wine."
Oido que dices, porque los bárbaros gringos piensan que pueden usar inglés a expresar los sentamientos complicados del alma. Que pena, dijo! Recuerdais esto: Conduzco un coche, no "manejo un carro," juego fútbol, no "soquer," o "basquetból" y uso un ordernador, no uso una computadora.
Viva la Espana! O Cuba! O Alguna!
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I still wanna talk about bread pudding. My first experience with bread pudding was meh, even though the sauce had ameretto in it and was quite interesting. Unfortunately, my standards had been set far too high by several people claiming that this particular bread pudding would be better than sex. I have since concluded that all of those people have very unsatisfying sex.
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Thirded. MightyCow would definitely take sweet lovin' over a good bread pudding.
And just so you know how much restraint I can exercise, I'm totally not going to try to make a spoonerism about it.
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Fourthed, although I did once have a flourless chocolate expresso torte (Certainly the Brits would have called it a pudding) that was very nearly as good as sex. Sadly it seems to have been a one off. I've been back to the same cafe and ordered the same torte several times, but its never been quite as good as that first one.
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I've never had both offered at the same time. They generally seem to come up in wildly different contexts. Perhaps I've been attending the wrong dinner parties.
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quote:Originally posted by Sterling: I've never had both offered at the same time. They generally seem to come up in wildly different contexts. Perhaps I've been attending the wrong dinner parties.
I've never technically been offered them truly simultaneously, but I have on occasion chosen to skip dessert so my stomach wouldn't be too full for the after dinner entertainment.
I'm still waiting for them to bring around the dessert menu that lists sex as one of the options.
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Trust me, guys. It's far easier to introduce dessert to the sex, not the other way around.
quote: And just so you know how much restraint I can exercise, I'm totally not going to try to make a spoonerism about it.
And the result of this comment was that I spent a full minute coming up with every possible spoonerism, some of which were humorous; others, disgusting.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Fourthed, although I did once have a flourless chocolate expresso torte...
I take it that Mormons can consume things that have coffee in them as long as they aren't liquids? That's interesting; I'd have assumed that that wasn't the case.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Fourthed, although I did once have a flourless chocolate expresso torte...
I take it that Mormons can consume things that have coffee in them as long as they aren't liquids? That's interesting; I'd have assumed that that wasn't the case.
Well, she did say "expresso" not "espresso". Could be some other kind of expressed liquid.
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Mormons take the whole eating "sinfully delicious" food thing the extra step of actually sinning while eating it.
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Worse - they eat deserts that contain coffee or alcohol. Sometimes they even neglect to eat meat sparingly.
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quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: ...perform onanism?
Dreadfully awkward to phrase it that way, don't you think? I'd prefer "onanize."
That way if you say it out loud people will think you have one thing called an "Ize", or that you misapplied the indefinite article to your eyes.
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Fourthed, although I did once have a flourless chocolate expresso torte...
I take it that Mormons can consume things that have coffee in them as long as they aren't liquids? That's interesting; I'd have assumed that that wasn't the case.
It's just "hot drinks" with caffeine in them.
Apparently excluding hot chocolate.
Or something.
It's very strangely interpreted.
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quote:That's because the way they cook peas, they ARE gloppy goo.
To be precise, they are MUSHY goo. MMMmmmm. Mushy peas. Thanks to June, who taught me to like mushy peas.
Oh, and I've invited June to come to hatrack and explain to us the correct definition of pudding. (SHE's made of Yorkshire)
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quote:Originally posted by The Rabbit: Fourthed, although I did once have a flourless chocolate expresso torte...
I take it that Mormons can consume things that have coffee in them as long as they aren't liquids? That's interesting; I'd have assumed that that wasn't the case.
It's just "hot drinks" with caffeine in them.
Apparently excluding hot chocolate.
Or something.
It's very strangely interpreted.
Not really, it's specific enough that it's spirit is unmistakable, but vague enough that the individual can think for themselves how to live it.
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Not really, it's specific enough that it's spirit is unmistakable, but vague enough that the individual can think for themselves how to live it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
So it's a definite maybe?
That sounds to me like a pretty nice little arrangement.
I would choose to interpret it to mean, "no spicy drinks." Spicy foods would of course be allowed.
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