I call cream of wheat porridge and oatmeal, oatmeal. I used to really like eating instant oatmeal uncooked.
― Yerac, Monday, 25 November 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
also sounds like 'pourage', like... something you'd pour I guess?
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2019 15:33 (four years ago) link
this version of the porage origin story makes a bit more sense: https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/producers/things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-scotts-porage-oats/
(though not much more)
― mark s, Monday, 25 November 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Americans call Chinese burns Indian burns
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, November 25, 2019 9:29 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
So long as we're all resolved to refer to this particular kind of burn in quasi-racist terms.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 November 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
Her vowels (I think in both languages) sound a lot broader to me than those here, which is also the first thing that strikes me when I drive across the US border:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igydws4gSA
xp to pomenitul
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
(I mean the adults in this video)
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I can hear it. Speaking for myself, I sound a lot like Anne-Marie Withenshaw in English and while my 'abouts' may not be as echt-Canadian as those of anglophone non-Montrealers, they still sound ridiculously Canadian to everyone I meet (especially the Americans, as Brits have a very hard time telling our accent(s) apart from those of our neighbours).
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 November 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
porridge is stirabout
― deems of internment (darraghmac), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
stirabout is fair whey
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Flap Jacks are the badness what occur when are missing some key ingredients of Parkin but are all dressed up to bake this nastiness anyway.
― calzino, Monday, 25 November 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
flapjacks are what happens if the contents of a horse's nosebag get soggy and clump together
― FBPRieu (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
my "abouts" were lightly canadian for a week or so after my montreal trip this year
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Americans call Chinese burns Indian burns― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, November 25, 2019 9:29 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglinkSo long as we're all resolved to refer to this particular kind of burn in quasi-racist terms.― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, November 25, 2019 3:46 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, November 25, 2019 3:46 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
unforch, I don't remember schoolkids in the 80s and 90s taking this into consideration
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:45 (four years ago) link
No, they sure didn't.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
every once in a while someone references a wildly racist/sexist/homophobic thing from my childhood and I think, wow, we really did say that, huh?
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
There's sort of a continuum with how that diphthong gets raised in RoC ime, less "oo" and more "oh" as you go from east to west in broad terms, I think. (People in the Prairies would comment on mine.) Montreal's seem possibly the least raised to me, though.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
xpost Not only that, but I occasionally think about how carefree childhood refrains of 'joy to the world, the teacher's dead' or 'on top of the schoolhouse all covered with blood' would probably get a kid expelled nowadays.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
it wasn't really a "shockingly old" thing in that I don't think it'd be a thing people would learn unless they knew someone from Saskatchewan, but in that province people refer to a hooded sweatshirt as a "bunny hug"
― mh, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
Ha, yeah. Idk if the Mackenzie brothers used that particular one but a lot of things from the Great White North sketches never made sense to me until I lived in Regina.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
I will be a little sad if kids are no longer singing "glory, glory, how peculiar! The teacher hit me with a ruler..." anymore.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
what do brits call waffles
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:23 (four years ago) link
waffles
― mark s, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
they're waffly versatile
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
brits call waffles "Labour Party" iirc
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:30 (four years ago) link
They're still called waffles but they differ constitutionally as they're comprised mostly of a pig's blood and bone meal batter poured onto a waffle iron. IIRC? Could be wrong. But it sounds right.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Weirdly, the hard-left faction of our left-wing party used to be called "The Waffle" so I wondered if that was serious for a split-second.xp
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
correct so far as it goes, except that british waffles are buttered on the left side, not the right side as in the US.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
wait waffles are buttered on sides? I just drench the motherfucker
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
does the usa have potato waffles or are they a uk thing? because this was the only waffle I knew until adulthood.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
are those like waffle fries? if so, yea
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
ok, searched for waffle fries, the answer is "yes, but like four times the size of those"
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
like this
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9PMr05j-B4k/hqdefault.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, November 25, 2019 5:23 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Is taht what a Belgian waffle is.I think the Birdseye variety tend to be more savoury, some of them are potato based rather than batter and what have you.BUt the big thing about a waffle is that it is made with a waffle iron so will have the criss cross design on it.& it might also refer to a style of trouser that had a similar look, but not seen those in a few decades.
― Stevolende, Monday, 25 November 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
That there's a brand of Dijon mustard called Grey Poupon that Americans consider to be quintessentially French but that is virtually unknown in France.
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 November 2019 18:40 (four years ago) link
Ha, I just learned that Grey Poupon actually did originate in France. I had always assumed it was American.
― No language just sound (Sund4r), Monday, 25 November 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgPk5T1xi0
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 25 November 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
I still find myself on one or the other side of this scenario like a few times a week at least
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WADh8vk3A
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, 25 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
cream of wheat isn't porridgeI'm still not sure where "grits" fits in
― kinder, Monday, 25 November 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
"French" mustard is particular to the UK and was invented by Colman's in 1936. It became a popular accompaniment to steak in particular. Colman's ceased production of French mustard in 2001 after Unilever, which now own Colman's, were ordered to stop selling it by the EU, following its takeover of rival mustard-maker Amora Maille in 2000.[37] Many British supermarkets still offer their own version of French mustard.
And you wonder why Brexit happened?
― 'Skills' Wallace (Tom D.), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
― kinder, Monday, November 25, 2019 11:00 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
grits are polenta
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
cream of wheat is sort of disgusting imo. porridge and grits are v good
you know what's good, congee, why am I not always eating it
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
my controversial food opinion is that congee is boring and sucks the flavour out of everything it touches
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
insane
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
Never gonna get through all 36 Chambers with that attitude
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
I could argue about it but no need as anyone can try it and find out how dull it is.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
I mean like even if it were boring, why would boring food be bad
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, 25 November 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
it's actively boring, it's like eating a bowl of particularly insipid new age music
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 25 November 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
colman's french mustard was my favourite as a kid, until i realised i disliked vinegar which it mostly tasted of
― mark s, Monday, 25 November 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
I've only had congee at a vietnamese restaurant and it's for sure the most boring thing on a vietnamese menu.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 25 November 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link