Food!

[psycmajor]

I hear you folks drink A LOT of tea, LOL.

I remember learning in German class that Europeans don't put ice in their drinks (Americans do it almost by default).

British Chips = American French Fries

Okay, add 2 the list.

 

[ukok]

Eggs are strange - in all the us films i have seen that have involved eating eggs in Diners (we call them Cafe's by the way) - you can get your eggs over easy etc, here we just do them in very basic ways

boiled egg
fried egg
scrambled egg
poached egg


what do you do with your eggs, in the U.S ? lol?

 

[Dawn Marie]

And don't you guys call dinner, tea? That always confused me! Lunch is dinner and dinner is tea and breakfast is... breakfast?



And what's this British fascination with curry?

 

[ej]

Not exactly...

Tea is in the afternoon, when you get in from work / school, or even during your afternoon break.

Supper is the evening meal, usually served late.


Dinner is on Sundays - a roast served after church, about 2 or 3 o'clock.

 

[ukok]

depends, personally i call breakfast- breakfast
lunch -lunch
dinner -dinner

but others call

breakfast- breakfast
lunch -dinner
dinner- tea

I, yes I, have been accused of being a snob at times, for not calling dinner - tea, how strange is that!

 

[ukok]

I hear you folks drink A LOT of tea, LOL.

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i would prefer coffee, myself, but i know lots of devout tea drinkers!

 

[ej]

I drink one cup of coffee a day maximum (otherwise I get the jitters, and nobody needs a jittery surgeon!)

Between times, it's tea tea tea! I could drink several buckets every day. With McVities digestives or course! Or the occasional hobnob...

 

[lucypevensie]

I've heard that Brits don't like peanut butter and jelly. Is that true???

Also when we were in London we saw some sidewalk vendors selling slices of pizza. They didn't look very appetizing--I swear one of the pizzas had corn on it. Is corn a common pizza topping???

What is that brown sauce in a sqeeze bottle you see in chip shops?

 

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[Vardai]

i started drinking tea : ) i must say its quite nasty but i have gotten used to it : ) i might be a foreign exchange to britain next year... just to let yall know... btw im new here... hi yall

 

[ej]

EmmaJane

You're a surgeon?!???!!! (in a shocked way...not scared). Oh no not digestives, hobnobs all day though!!!

Well, I'm a trainee one, I've been qualified 3 years. I'll be fully trained in another 5 or 6 years!

No time for breaks or lunch, so we usually steal hospital-issue tea and digestives to keep us alive!

(Another good British discussion point... the NHS...)

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

I've heard that Brits don't like peanut butter and jelly. Is that true???

Well, we'd call it jam. Jelly is that stuff you call Jell-o. It's not something I'd fancy, though some people do eat it.

Generally I like (crunchy) peanut butter on toast. If God had meant us to eat peanut butter sandwiches He'd have given us a teflon-lined mouth.

Also when we were in London we saw some sidewalk vendors selling slices of pizza. They didn't look very appetizing--I swear one of the pizzas had corn on it. Is corn a common pizza topping???

Not that common, but some people like it. There's some dreadful stuff flogged on the streets in London. I wouldn't touch anything sold from a stall on the streets. Had a nice meal last time I was in Leicester Square (last weekend) but it always seems to cost more.

What is that brown sauce in a sqeeze bottle you see in chip shops?

It is Brown Sauce. Honestly - that's the name! I have no idea what's in it, but it's absolutely marvellous on breakfasts.

 

[Karl - Liberal Backslider]

And don't you guys call dinner, tea? That always confused me! Lunch is dinner and dinner is tea and breakfast is... breakfast?

It's a class thing. In the 50s, when we were very class conscious, the upper classes had:

Breakfast - morning
Luncheon - lunchtime
Tea - 4pm
High Tea - 6pm
Dinner - 8pm or so.

You didn't necessarily get all the meals; younger children would have a more substantial High Tea and go to bed; Dinner was reserved for when you'd learnt enough etiquette....

Working class folks had:

Breakfast
Dinner
Tea.

Now the class system has broken down. The middle class are time poor and money rich, not like the old days when they had plenty of both. The working class often have as much money as anyone else, and cross-class marriages have been commonplace for years (I'm technically a working class lad married to a middle class girl), and essentially it doesn't really work any more - and a good thing too. So what people call their meals could be anything really.

And what's this British fascination with curry?

Social history again. In the sixties, British food was in a nadir. The rationing years had conditioned us to accept watery tasteless stews, and the Victorians had convinced us that a vegetable not boiled to mush was sinful. So when immigrants started selling us food that had a powerful taste, we leapt on it like a starved chihouha (spelling?) on a pork chop.

 

[ukok]

(Another good British discussion point... the NHS...)

Go on emmajane, you know you want to start a thread on the NHS... I could give all the gory details of my experiences of childbirth with the NHS....sterilisation....rushing children to hospital stories....oh, what fun we'll have!

 

[ando]

I just love tea

I can't start the day without at least one cup

God bless

Ando

 

[psycmajor]

No one knows what the "brown sauce" is? What does it taste like? Why use it?

Generally I like (crunchy) peanut butter on toast. If God had meant us to eat peanut butter sandwiches He'd have given us a teflon-lined mouth.

LOL

And what are these "digestives" you speak of??


Is NHS = National/Nationwide Hospital System?? Just a guess

 

[GREG]

depends, personally i call breakfast- breakfast
lunch -lunch
dinner -dinner

but others call

breakfast- breakfast
lunch -dinner
dinner- tea

I, yes I, have been accused of being a snob at times, for not calling dinner - tea, how strange is that!

HUH??????????????????

 

[ej]

LOLOL!

We discuss spiritual issues daily, you lot help me make important decisions, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT BROWN SAUCE OR DIGESTIVES ARE!

Brown sauce (called HP sauce as there is a picture of te houses of Parliament on the bottle) is made from vinegar, dates and spices. I don't like it.

Digestives are plain wholewheat biscuits which are greatdipped in tea or coffee (you'd call them cookies I guess!)

NHS is the national health service... itnow has a thread of its own!