fights with your boyfriend or girlfriend

luv me sum morning tea

y'alllllll brunch is OUT!? you didn't know? it's all about lunch now.

there is no lunch. only dinner

i only have supper tbh

I just had pancakes and coffee at 10am on a weekday, is that “tea” or “pudding”?

that's early elevenses

key q: did you have breakfast first

there's definitely people in scotland (and perhaps elsewhere in britain) who call lunch dinner and dinner tea

i call dinner tea, but never lunch dinner

its breakfast if u hadnt eaten first otherwise heres the thing imo thats teabreak

teabreak at 10 is contingent on what time you started work tho imo

......you will not have known to whom you speak obv....

do you realize how absolutely insane this reads to Americans? Yes? OK, good.

that's early elevenses

― imago, Wednesday, March 14, 2018 1:46 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You had to.

Silby - neither. You just had breakfast.

depending on whether hed had breakfast

obv

i actually love that this all comes down to food bc the fight that made me start this thread was... wait for it... a blowout about WHERE TO GO OUT FOR DINNER

never have i felt more like a fool tbh, the next morning i woke up to a story on world hunger on the cover of the paper.

british ppl would have u believe its purely sort order and not in bands therefore possible to get up early and eat five quick small meals culminating in a supper at 9.30am

I had had a cookie (aka “pudding”), then I went to the dentist and got a mouth full of anesthetic and a filling, then I had the pancakes.

a cookie is a biscuit!

i mean the dentist trip at least seems consistent

and a biscuit is a...scone?

cant have pudding pre dinner u had a "treat"

a scone is a rock cake and its actually pronounced scone

^ exactly

pudding is only something sweet you have after your dinner

Ok so a scone is a biscuit, a biscuit is a pudding, and pudding is a kind of sausage that you have for breakfast, also known as “tea”

which of course is dessert

pudding is one of four things but it is not necessarily dessert, or if u must, afters or sweet

a scone is a scone

a biscuit is maybe a dumpling maybe even a farl or a muffin

a pancake is an open-faced syrup sandwich

i mean a biscuit doesnt rly translate because whats wrong with bread you savages

and a biscuit is a...scone?

― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, March 14, 2018 11:03 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never encountered an american style biscuit in britain (sadly), so i don't think we have a name for them.

i actually love that this all comes down to food bc the fight that made me start this thread was... wait for it... a blowout about WHERE TO GO OUT FOR DINNER

never have i felt more like a fool tbh, the next morning i woke up to a story on world hunger on the cover of the paper.

<3 <3 <3

wait what if my breakfast just consists of scone

Common low-level food-related argument in my life:

Me: (buying a snack, like say some coconut curry chocolate-covered cashews)
Her: Don't buy those, they're like $10 a pound
Me: But I'm not buying a pound, I'm only buying $2 worth, which is not much in absolute money
Her: They're $10 a pound, you don't understand how money works
Me: But they taste good
etc

Per pound, sure, it sounds bad, but what do they cost per calorie?

is there an alternative beside it at less per lb

if not, irrelevant

Is this what happens when you don't separate threads into US/non-US divisions

I will be hearing for the next 20 years about the one time I spent $8 on hydroponically grown tomatoes in like February. GOD FORBID.

i wasn't gonna lay down knowledge on how to deal with food arguments but since it seems to be a very troubling matter for many

dr infinity will post something after a supper break

Anyway I grew up thinking that scones (hom. "cons") were dry buttery buns that required to be sliced in half and slathered in Cornish clotted cream and jam before they became edible, and scones (hom. "cones") were pieces of rolled out dough, cut into odd shapes like a Jamie Oliver wet dream and submerged in hot oil until they puffed up, and then drizzled with sugar and cinnamon-- miniature versions of what they call, in Ottawa, "Beaver Tails"

that seems sensible enough and I declare it canon

Is this what happens when you don't separate threads into US/non-US divisions

― nevertheless, he stopped (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 18:30 (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

at best

fuckin luv eating beaver

tails

Thank you imago

I don't know if any of you Americans or British people know or care, but Canada has the most hilarious/ridiculous/strangely useful splitting-of British/American usages, particularly with regards to measurements

Spelling is easy: we follow British spelling consistently, with the exception of "aluminium", "paedophile" and "haemophilia".

But measurement? it's messed up.

Distances when travelling are always measured in kilometres. We are going for a 5k run. We are driving 550 km to Montreal. Except: when giving directions. It's about 50 feet down that alley. And: when measuring people's height, and penis length. I am six foot zero.

Area is, oddly enough, always measured in Imperial units. My mother owns a seven-acre farm. (Nobody knows what an acre is, in feet, except that they have a spacial idea of what it looks like.) This 1 bedroom apartment is 800 sq. feet. Except, when talking about the sizes of forests. 500 sq. kilometres of boreal forest were destroyed in that forest fire.

Temperature is always measured in Celsius. It's -5 C today in Toronto. Water boils at 100 C. Except when measuring oven temperatures. Preheat the oven to 400 F. And, bizarrely enough: swimming pool temperatures. The water temperature is 76. And, lastly: one's body temperature. I have a fever of 104.

Weight is mostly measured by the Imperial system. I weigh 165 pounds. Please buy 2 pounds of chuck roast. Grab me the 30 pound dumbbell. Except when buying drugs. A gram of weed costs $30.

Liquid mass is completely messed up. I will literally buy a pint of cream and a litre of milk and put them in the same bag. A half-cup of coffee grounds and 500 mL of water will yield you two 12 ounce cups of coffee.

There are many other inconsistencies but those are the ones that spring to mind

I guess this isn't a splitting of British/American usages but Imperial/Metric

Either way

Vive la différence

we all do that tbh

xp. thanks for that post fgti. I've lived in canada since 2012 and still get confused as to the how and why of measurements

Xp to flam

Ya

Still on supper break but there are more quirks

Kinda wanna start a thread but calling attention to our quirks is uncanadian

*puts canadian flag on knapsack*

More important talking to a 60 yr old canadian, will yield different results

I.e., they use miles

of course we made this fucking thread about food

this fighting thread fyi