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UK and US Food
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I've just realised that americans don't put meat in pie. Which is a bit weird really. So I thought what are the big differences between american and english food?
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Can be either. Fruit pie is good, beef pie is good, but differnt. Different and good... mmm pie.
that's a bit odd isn't it, like doughballs at pizza express isn't it?
Yum they just reminded me i'm starving. But yes we do have them but they're definitely not as common in places as they are in the states.
If you think our cereal sounds boring you should see what we have with a cup of tea. One particular Brit favourite is the Rich Tea biscuit, which Bill Bryson described as like something you might put in a budgie cage for it to sharpen it's beak.
"And the British are so easy to please. It is the most extraordinary thing. They actually like their pleasures small. That is why so many of their treats—tea cakes, scones, crumpets, rock cakes, rich tea biscuits, fruit Shrewsburys—are so cautiously flavorful. They are the only people in the world who think of jam and currants as thrilling constituents of a pudding or cake. Offer them something genuinely tempting—a slice of gateau or a choice of chocolates from a box—and they will nearly always hesitate and begin to worry that it's unwarranted and excessive, as if any pleasure beyond a very modest threshold is vaguely unseemly.
"Oh, I shouldn't really," they say.
"Oh, go on," you prod encouragingly.
"Well, just a small one then," they say and daringly take a small one, and then get a look as if they have just done something terribly devilish."
Notes From a Small Island, Bill Bryson
That's a crumpet isn't it?
Muffins.
SCONES!
Pronounced skohnes.
No, that's a crumpet.
WTF?! Do you go to McDonalds and ask for an Egg McScone?!
They're MUFFINS!
so do you make pizza scones? cuz thats the only use I canthink of for those horrible tasting things
whats this then? Ohhh I'm learning so much today :hyper:
That is also a muffin. Confused?!
Don't forget that McD's is an american company, they're not muffins.
That is a muffin.
What is it then, cause as far as I can see they're exactly the same as the things I buy in Asda in a packet labelled "muffins".
The degrading of society is what it is. That's not proper muffin is it?!
It's a scone, trust me.
It's a Scottish thing.
THAT'S a MUFFIN
OK, what do you define as a proper muffin then? A cake muffin?
How cute
Of course a cake muffin!
Yes, ok those cakes are called muffins, but English muffins were here long before they were, so tell me exactly what is the degradation of our society, hmm?
No wonder Manda is confused....
All because of a cake? I don't have as much free time to argue over cakes.
As bad as the man who waited 10 minutes to get his 2p change from me when I was at work the other day, you lot are.
Heh, that bit was actually in answer to Fiend, but never mind!