#15825
01/17/2001 7:57 PM
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Speaking of local idioms...in another post...what about the varied names for a certain kind of sandwich:
Hoagie
Sub (Submarine)
Hero
Torpedo
And when you want a cola...the general request is for a "Coke". Rarely have I heard the specific request for a "Pepsi". Flavored sodas in this area are called "pop".
In New Jersey, where I spent most of my life, if you wanted a pizza, a REAL pizza that is, you would ask for a "tomato pie".
Anyone want to share their local food names?
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#15826
01/17/2001 8:41 PM
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The Hoagie/Sub/Hero/Torpedo can also be called a "grinder" around here, but anyone would understand what was meant by any of the terms.
Soda pop is shortened to "pop," although I get grief from people in other parts of the country for not calling it "soda." I say, which is the shorter abbreviation of soda pop, and which doesn't get confused with soda water???
I gave up trying to order either Coke or Pepsi, invariably to have the waiter inform me that they carried the other brand, or the generic cola, only to have the waiter check to see if Coke, or Pepsi, was OK, and have now resorted to ordering "diet brown."
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01/17/2001 8:48 PM
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Back in Boston in the old days I don't know what pop would've gotten you. The generic term for soft drinks was tonic pronounced [tawnic].
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01/17/2001 9:26 PM
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It's not my local dish, but I've been told the cold people in the Northern U.S. (Minnesota, Wisconsin) have something called "hotdish". It is a sort of casserole consisting of a pale meat, a pale vegetable and a binder. For example, turkey, peas and mushroom soup, or ground beef, celery and cream of celery soup. A friend said the number of combinations is mind-boggling, and she's actually found one she liked.
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01/17/2001 9:56 PM
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in Boston the generic term for soft drinks was tonic pronounced tawnic.
Ahhhh, yes indeedy! I took my tawnic to Houston in 1952 and got a befuddled look... tonic in Texas is on the order of Lydia Pinkham's Pills for Pale People.
As to ice cream based drinks.
In New England milk and ice cream whipped together is a frappe, but on a drive to west coast I learned to call it a "cabinet" somewhere in the mid-west.
Back in Boston if you ordered a "soda" you got syrup, carbonated soda and a scoop of ice cream perched precariously on the side of the glass.
In Pennsylvannia's Dutch Country (around Lancaster) I was introduced to Shoo Fly Pie, a molasses based pie which I've never found anywhere else. Yum.
To me the All American desert is apple pie. Whatever part of the USA you're in apple pie is apple pie! As in the euphemistic "war cry" -- "For God, Country, Mother and Apple Pie!"
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01/17/2001 10:03 PM
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Good Gawd! I don't believe I did it.  desert...nononono..... apple pie is dessert.  It's also good for breakfast! wow
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#15831
01/17/2001 11:39 PM
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apple pie for breakfast
Absolutely for breakfast in New England with a wedge of cheddar cheese and "red flannel hash"!
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#15832
01/18/2001 1:51 AM
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"Hotdish" reminds me that pasties (flat a) are regional. A pastie is a single-serving sized pastry crust, roughly rectangular, stuffed with meat, gravy and a veggie or two, the veggie usually being a root veg, especially turnip.
And malts: my grandfather, who was an electrician who traveled around the country working on railroads and at large projects, liked to tell of the time he was on the east coast for several months over a summer, working on something or other. Every evening, he would walk from his place of work to his room, and pass a drug store which had a soda fountain. He would stop there and order a malted, per the sign which indicated that malteds were 25 cents. The first time, the soda jerk made a malted with a single scoop of ice cream, and it was too runny for Grandpa. The next time, he asked the clerk to make the malted with two scoops. The clerk was aghast, but agreed to make the malted with the double ice cream if Grandpa would pay an extra 25 cents. Grandpa agreed, and so every day, he stopped and got his double-thick malted. After about a week, other people started ordering malteds that way, and then next time Grandpa went to the store, a sign in the window advertised their new specialty, "Western Malteds. 50 cents."
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01/18/2001 8:22 AM
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>apple pie is dessert.
It's also good for breakfast!
Oh - wonderful - that will make you a Yankee then!
I'd been sent a "definition" of Yankee ages ago by a friend and I'd assumed that the bit about apple pie for breakfast was a joke as I'd never heard of it!
To people outside the USA, a Yankee is someone who lives in the US.
To someone who lives in the USA, a Yankee is someone who lives in the North.
To a Northerner, a Yankee is someone who lives in New England.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is someone who lives in New Hampshire.
To someone who lives in New Hampshire, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.
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#15834
01/18/2001 8:51 AM
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I don't think that we use the term soda very much.
People used to have those soda fountain things on their "in house built-in-bars" which pumped out soda water (to go with whisky, I assume)- I never really knew why anyone would want it as it tasted fairly unpleasant. Shops still sell soda water in bottles as a mixer drink. I think it is still sold to go with whisky but I've never actually heard anyone ask for whisky and soda. It tends to be whisky (blended) and Canada Dry (for my parents' generation), malt whisky is better without any additions.
We can buy soda fountains/Sodastreams which is presumably based on the US usage as sticky concoctions are added to make not very convincing fizzy drinks. I don't think that we never had places called soda fountains (maybe because we could buy soft drinks in pubs).
There was a fashion for ice cream soda which my uncle used to buy for me at his favourite "Milk Bar".
In the North of England fizzy drinks were always (and maybe still are) called "pop". There even used to be a pop delivery van.
The word for drinks that have to be diluted was always cordial or squash in my family. I say a sign in a hotel in the US saying that soda was free but there was a charge for cordials. I was surprised, as I would have thought that cordial was cheaper. I hadn't realised that the word cordial was used to refer to alcoholic drinks.
On the subject of fizzy drinks. Lemonade is clear fizzy stuff with a vague taste of lemon - it's taste of lemon tends to be directly proportional to the price paid. The rather up-market fizzy stuff that actually looks lemon coloured and tastes of lemon, tends to be called "old fashioned lemonade" with the words "old fashioned" seen as an extra selling point. Some places sell Seven Up as lemonade but I think it has lemon and lime (but I could be wrong). Fizzy lemon and lime has the same chemical taste of lemonade but had extra lurid green dye. You can sometimes get the real still old fashioned lemonade sold in the US as lemonade, it is sometimes called lemon juice but you may need to be careful, otherwise you could end up with pure squeezed lemon.
As mentioned earlier, Coca Cola tends to be Coke, even if it is Pespi although "own brands" tend to call their stuff cola - often even more revolting than the real aircraft cleaning fluid sold as a drink.
I think that, like other foods, terms for drinks have regional/generational variations, so don't be suprised if someone from another part of the UK disagrees!
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01/18/2001 10:03 AM
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>Hotdish" reminds me that pasties (flat a) are regional. A pastie is a single-serving sized pastry crust, roughly rectangular, stuffed with meat, gravy and a veggie or two, the veggie usually being a root veg, especially turnip Our pasties (preferably from Corwall) are definitely semi-circular, never rectangular. The ones sold outside Cornwall are nowhere near as good. The Cornish Pastie was invented by Cornish housewives who wished to ensure that the husbands who worked down tin mines had proper food during the day. The thick, half round crust was baked so that the worker could hold his pastie without having to wash his hands, thereby losing valuable work time - when the pastie was eaten, the crust was thrown away. For a picture see:- http://web.ukonline.co.uk/alan.richards/cornish2.htmNext question: What is "a malted"?
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01/18/2001 10:51 AM
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>Hotdish" reminds me that pasties (flat a) are regional Following my last post, I decided to find some more information about pasties. It seems that the term is more regional than I had thought - see this website of words which could cause embarrassment: http://wtfaculty.wtamu.edu/~jrothfork/US-UK-English.htm
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01/18/2001 12:50 PM
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Jo asks: What is "a malted"?
It is a milk shake (the standard US term, milk and ice cream whirred together with some flavoring) with the addition of a malt powder, the exact nature of which I do not know, but I doubt I would ever use it to make beer.
I also suddenly remembered the phosphate, a soda fountain drink available in, at least, Iowa during the 50s. Presumably it used phosphorus instead of sodium.
And, jo, thanks for the dangerous slang warning site.
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01/18/2001 1:00 PM
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Lemon fizzy as added to lager in the UK is called a "Shandie" or "Shandy"? The lemon fizz used when we had them "over there" was from a tap. When we make them at home, we use Sprite (a lemony, sweet soda with carbonation). Americans tend to look at us aghast when we order these in a restaurant, as they've NEVER heard of anyone adding something to beer or lager. We enjoy "educating" the bartenders/waiters/waitresses and love to see the expressions on their faces when we tell them the ingredients! Horror mostly!  "Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
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01/18/2001 1:13 PM
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Chickie contributes: Lemon fizzy as added to lager in the UK is called a "Shandie" or "Shandy"?
We drank these at a bar (the Student Prince?) in Virginia Beach during my sailor days. The standard was Guinness and Schweppes Bitter Lemon. We also did a Black and Tan Shandy which was Guinness, Bass Ale and Bitter Lemon. The bar standard was half and half Guinness and Bitter Lemon. We bought the ingredients separately and mixed our own, significantly lighter on the Bitter Lemon. The Black and Tans we mixed were also somewhat lighter on the Bass than on the Guinness.
Incidentally, the norm these days for half and half in American bars is to pour the Guinness carefully over the Bass so as not to mix the two ingredients. This gives you a drink with a golden bronze lower layer with a black black upper layer. Is this the standard for half and half in Britain?
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01/18/2001 2:39 PM
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In reply to:
pie for breakfast
and in Pennsylvania Dutch country, they eat shoofly pie for breakfast (or whatever other kind of pie, chiefly fruit pie, there happens to be). In this, and other rural cultures where heavy meals are needed by people who labor hard, pie is a staple; it's eaten at almost every meal. Cake, on the other hand, is for special occasions.
Regarding fizzy drinks, there is, in NY and northwards, the egg cream, which contains neither egg nor cream, but is basically selzer or carbonated water and chocolate syrup.
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01/18/2001 3:00 PM
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All of which reminds me of being struck dumb with incomprehension while purchasing an ice cream cone.
A little background: the Great Lakes area of the US contains serious dairy country, and Michiganians bear the dubious distinction of eating more ice cream per capita than the inhabitants of any other state. We take our dairy as important business, and there are relatively strict laws on the content and labeling of dairy products (even more so in Wisconsin, the dairy state). In Michigan, "ice cream" must contain at least 10% milk fat and at least 20% total milk solids; frozen confections containing lesser amounts are called ice milk, or, in the case of the stuff dispensed by machine at cone stands, soft serve.
Anyway, I was in DC on business, and was wandering a mall one afternoon killing time, when I came upon an ice cream kiosk. I went up and ordered a scoop of ice cream in a cone, and the clerk asked me whether I wanted hard ice cream or soft ice cream. I stood there for a moment, dazed at the possibility that she was offering to give me a half-melted scoop of ice cream in a cone, until I realized that "soft ice cream" meant soft serve.
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01/18/2001 3:18 PM
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the norm these days for half and half in American bars is >to pour the Guinness carefully over the Bass so as not to mix the two ingredients. This gives you a drink with a golden bronze lower layer with a black black upper layer. Is this the standard for half and half in Britain? It wasn't when I was younger and I haven't drunk that kind of thing for a long time, so I'll rely on trendier types (Shanks are you there) for local knowledge. Some people used to ask for a pint of "mixed" which was half bitter, half mild. I've heard of Black and Tans (Guiness and mild) but never seen them separated like in the following picture: http://www.schremppstudio.com/beer.html According to the Guiness website below.
Q: How do I pour a Black and Tan?
A: Steve Glover, who has tended bar in Ireland, says that the layered Black and Tan is an American affectation that they were happy to do for extra money :-). Otherwise, both beers (they used Smithwicks and Guinness) were simply poured in the same glass fully mixed.
Q: Is there any meaning to the Black & Tan name other than its obvious reference to the colours of the beers?
A: Yes. The first known reference to the expression Black & Tan was in reference to a breed of beagles used as hunting dogs in Ireland.
The term was also used to refer to a a regiment of British soldiers recruited to serve in Ireland after the First World War. They had a reputation for being quite brutal and have been accused of many attrocities against the Irish in the years 1919-21.
http://www.ivo.se/guinness/bnt.htmlIt sounds like, along with Irish Coffee (Buena Vista, San Francisco), the Black and Tan was invented in the USA. Here's the song: Come Out ye Black & Tans! I was born on a Dublin street Where the loyal drums did beat And those bloody English feet They walked all over us! But every single night When me Da would come home tight, He'd invite the neighbours out With this chorus: Come out ye Black & Tans! Come out and fight me like a man. Show your wife how you won medals Down in Flanders. Tell her how the IRA Made you run like hell away From the green and lovely lanes Of Killeshandra!
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01/18/2001 3:25 PM
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I would think that a shandy in America would be quite different to here. Schweppes bitter lemon or Sprite would be much more lemony. Bar lemonade, on tap is mainly chemical, think sweetened soda water with the merest hint of lemon, so all it does is dilute and sweeten the drink. I've seen bitter shandy, lager shandy but never Black and Tan shandy - maybe I haven't lived!
They sell/used to sell shandy in cans for children/non-drinkers but it just tastes of sweet brown chemicals.
When I was growing up some people used to drink lager and blackcurrant. It was difficult to get as bartenders used to say that it made people think that the beer had gone off!
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01/18/2001 3:55 PM
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To someone who lives in New Hampshire, a Yankee is someone who eats pie for breakfast.
Heard another version, dear jmh
"To someone who lives in New Hampshire Yankees are those who put butter on thier pie!"
she says as a New Hampshire Yankee.
Don't knock it until you try it. A slice of warm apple pie and a nice bit o' butter spread on it. Of course if it's for a snack then you eat it while standing and holding the pie in your hand .... a old-time-Yankee aberration known as "Hand pie."
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#15845
01/18/2001 4:14 PM
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I think we invented this one. The bar served Black and Tans and they served Guinness shandies but not the combination. We'd be a large round tableful of sailors and we'd order eight or ten Guinnesses, maybe six or seven Bass Ales and a bottle of Bitter Lemon. As the stock of any ingredient dropped below the reorder point we'd resupply.
We also used Bitter Lemon as a mixer with Everclear in college at maybe one part BL to four or five parts Ec.
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01/18/2001 4:20 PM
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I've got a couple of favorite variations on adding things to beer. I used to work in a microbrewery (in the US) and we had an ice cream shop next door. We used to drop a scoop of ice cream into a pint of stout and make stout floats. The contrast of sweet and bitter, with a creamy taste throughout, was lovely (even better when it was raspberry stout season).
In Mexico, and especially in Mexico City, they make a drink called a michelada, which is very light Mexican beer (Corona, Sol, etc.) poured into a frosted glass, in which is some crushed ice and lime juice, and with a salted rim. Sounds a bit odd, but it's really perfect on a hot, hot day.
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01/18/2001 5:02 PM
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Anyone ever have Guiness and Champagne? It was a favorite in my family when the Guiness could be obtained in the 1940s.
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01/18/2001 5:09 PM
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Here in the Denver area we have Rocky Mountain oysters. NOT sure you want to know what they are, but lets put it this way: they serve big ones when the bullfighter wins, and small ones when the bull wins.
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01/18/2001 5:21 PM
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In NY, you can also get a "snakebit" have beer/lager half cider (english type, brewed, 4 to 6% alcohol) its a good combo.
Brewed cider has become very popular, most bars have one or more brands on tap. It's what i drink when the guys are drinking beers.
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and as for "Malt"-- it is a flour make from malted barley. Some times is has extra sugar or flavorings.
like malt syrup or even "barley water" its slightly sweet, and flavorful. You can buy Malt powder, or other beverages with malt--
"Ovaltine" is a childrens beverage, made with hot milk and Ovaltine. Ovaltine has a mild chocolate flavor, and the drink is something like cocoa.
I've never done it, but i suspect you could add malt to water, ferment it, and end up with something...
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01/18/2001 5:27 PM
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Ted, here they're called just "mountain oysters", and no, I don't care to ever try one, thanks. Also, your def. of gorevan made me laugh out loud! U R kewl(thanx Max for the spelling hint.)
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01/18/2001 5:46 PM
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Ted, here they're called just "mountain oysters", and no, I don't care to ever try one, thanks. Also, your def. of gorevan made me laugh out loud!
Here also, and last night I was almost induced to bushusuru when I heard of a female farmhand would bite them off while the source was alive!!! (Here the most common source is ovine, not bovine)
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01/18/2001 5:47 PM
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Ah...AKA "prairie oysters". Never had one, never want one About the apple pie and butter...if you put the butter on and then "nuke" it in the microwave...yum!
And about shandies proportions in the UK: I believe it was half and half. But who remembers after you've had a few and you're having fun?!
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01/18/2001 5:56 PM
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Oh-- In reply to:
Here also, and last night I was almost induced to bushusuru when I heard of a female farmhand would bite them off while the source was alive!!!
I thought it was in scotland that all the men where strong, the woman stoic, and sheep scared!
I guess in scotland the sheep only have to fear the men!
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01/18/2001 6:05 PM
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I've seen Guinness and champagne offered in bars called Black Velvet, I think. Never had it though.
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01/18/2001 6:08 PM
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I thought it was in scotland that all the men where strong, the woman stoic, and sheep scared!
A little clarification of my earlier post may be in order.  Among certain sectors of NZ society, lamb's tails are considered a delicacy. Theses are normally obtained, or so I'm told with a simple, swift, slash. For male lambs the cut is extended to remove their "mountain oysters" at the same time. The farmhand in question would bite them off from the severed tail, not while they were still attached. That misconception was waht made me feel sick, although the clarification provided little amelioration. 
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01/18/2001 9:20 PM
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And then there is the refugee family who have been here a little over a year, and last week wanted to celebrate their baby's first birthday with party food that they were used to. I wasn't there, but my friend tells me it involved a goat on the hoof and the bathtub...bushusuru time for me,
just about, from the ...oh, I can't even think of it enough to write any more.
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01/18/2001 9:48 PM
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Ah yes, Ovaltine as in: "We are the Ovaltinies, little girls and boys Make your requests, we'll not refuse you We are here just to amuse you Would you like a song or story? Will you share our joys? At games and sports we're more than keen No merrier children can be seen Because we all drink Ovaltine We're happy girls and boys." Of course I'm too young to remember it in full but its amazing what you can find in Louisville: http://www.louisville.com/loumag/oct/online10.htmPS They didn't spellcheck with Aenigma when thinking up the name Ovaltine!
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01/18/2001 9:52 PM
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ovaltine
Don't tell Little Orphan Annie.
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01/18/2001 9:55 PM
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>ovaltine - Don't tell Little Orphan Annie
I wont if you wont.
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01/18/2001 10:12 PM
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Speaking of happy children and food ads... http://www.vegemite.com.au/music.html...and I don't think Kraft would be happy with Aenigma's spoof "We're happy little vegetables" either.
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01/18/2001 10:25 PM
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Dear Marty,
The song was a hoot! Loved it!
Tried vegamite .... gleeech.
Sorry.
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01/18/2001 10:34 PM
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Tried vegemite .... gleeech.
Sorry.
No need to apologize, wow, I'm with you on that one. Axle-grease is the word that comes to mind. Sorry is what I feel for the people who do like it. I prefer my salt spread over a lifetime rather than one piece of bread.
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#15863
01/18/2001 10:44 PM
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Joined: Aug 2000
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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I prefer my salt spread over a lifetime rather than one piece of bread.
[instructive rant]
This sounds like another philistine who spreads Vegemite as though it were jam, or peanut butter. Vegemite should be smeared thinly, heavy stress on thinly, in order to truly appreciate its magnificence. A 5 gram container, the sizer you get with hotel breakfasts should do for at least three slices of toast. [/instructive rant]
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#15864
01/18/2001 10:49 PM
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Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 428
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Here's a VERY local idiom for soft-serve ice cream. Though I've lived in Boston my whole life, I had never heard a soft-serve ice cream cone called "a creemee" (pronounced like creamy). That's what it's called here in Vermont, though. On warm summer nights the whole town can be found at the local creemee stand.
What I wouldn't give for a warm summer night...
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