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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy
    Heh, that bit was actually in answer to Fiend, but never mind! ;)

    I know, I was being hilarious, or something..but it backfired. :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by 1983
    I know, I was being hilarious, or something..but it backfired. :(

    Aww, sorry. I'm always being told I'm part Vulcan cause I take things so literally.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy
    Aww, sorry. I'm always being told I'm part Vulcan cause I take things so literally.

    Haha, 'tis alright. Looking forward to Fiend's cake arguement! :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by girl with sharp teeth
    Not a scottish thing :no:

    I just read Oor Wullie too much and talked to my Aunty Nancy too much when she made them when I was wee, then. :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    jam apricotjam9.5oz_jar.jpg

    jelly polson4.jpg

    (while searching for a picture of jam i found this which is very cute but beside the point)
    Jam-ChristianMcNally1.jpg
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Blah_x2
    (while searching for a picture of jam i found this which is very cute but beside the point)
    Jam-ChristianMcNally1.jpg

    It looks dead. :|
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    An English Muffin is called a muffin in the UK, oven-bottom muffins are slightly different. American muffins are the sweet cakes, and they too are called muffins.

    A scone is not a muffin. A muffin is a bread product, but a scone is a pastry-type product, normally with currants in.

    To clarify:

    englishmuffin.jpg is a muffin.
    Muffins.jpg is a muffin.

    They are both muffins. Ans scones are not muffins.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Along the same lines as Blah -

    crisps.jpg

    crisps

    chips.jpg

    chips.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy
    Along the same lines as Blah -

    crisps.jpg

    crisps

    chips.jpg

    chips.


    mmm :yum:

    In Crete when I asked for chips I got crisps :| silly people. Chips are clearly the oven cooked potatoey scrummy yummy things in the second pic.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Heehee.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Such confusion. IMO American muffins are like cakes, with flavours such as chocolate, blueberry etc. English muffins are toasted and savoury. Scones (pronounced either 'skohnes' or 'skons') are eaten with jam, and have currants/raisins in them. That's what I always thought anyway.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kermit
    An English Muffin is called a muffin in the UK, oven-bottom muffins are slightly different. American muffins are the sweet cakes, and they too are called muffins.

    They are both muffins. Ans scones are not muffins.

    yes.

    and now the word muffin looks very strange.


    i believe american have similar confusions with biscuits. i seem to remember their idea of a biscuit to be some kind of bread roll thing that would have no place being dunked in tea.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy
    what is the degradation of our society, hmm?

    Not knowing what a crumpet is that's what! not having scones at a cream tea place when in devon! 20:20 cricket! What's the country coming to!?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy


    "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

    funny, im reading that book at the mo! its soooo true!!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Fiend_85
    Not knowing what a crumpet is that's what! not having scones at a cream tea place when in devon! 20:20 cricket! What's the country coming to!?

    who doesnt know wat a crumpet is?:eek:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by nelly_bar
    who doesnt know wat a crumpet is?:eek:


    People who... are degrading society!
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    JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    20:20 cricket!

    The only one that Yorkshire seem to be any good at sadly :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by JsT
    The only one that Yorkshire seem to be any good at sadly :(


    It's a rubbish sport, and makes perfect sense that some northerners would be good at it :razz:



    joking, joking, please don't be too offended
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ooo, another one to confuse people.

    We have scotch pancakes, which are also known as drop scones and are the equivalent of pancakes in the US. What we know as pancakes are much wider and thinner....
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Kate1
    Ooo, another one to confuse people.

    We have scotch pancakes, which are also known as drop scones and are the equivalent of pancakes in the US. What we know as pancakes are much wider and thinner....

    More like crepes.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yep, definitely :yes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    mmm pancakes.
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    JsTJsT Posts: 18,268 Skive's The Limit
    Originally posted by Fiend_85
    joking, joking, please don't be too offended

    Trust me, you'd have to try a LOT harder to even begin to offend me.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by JsT
    Trust me, you'd have to try a LOT harder to even begin to offend me.

    I will do. wanker.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Miffy
    Along the same lines as Blah -

    crisps.jpg

    crisps

    chips.jpg

    chips.

    no no no.. the first picture is of chips.. and the second picture is of FRIES!! FRENCH FRIES!!!

    you crazy europeans with your crazy names for things.. :p
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Angel121077
    no no no.. the first picture is of chips.. and the second picture is of FRIES!! FRENCH FRIES!!!

    you crazy europeans with your crazy names for things.. :p

    No you dosey mare! First picture, Crisps. Second picture is most defenatly not frys, they are chips. Frys are much thinner.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Apart from food im am somewhat alarmed over the confusion between 'Football' (or 'Soccer') and that American hand-ball sport, the one with the egg-shaped-affair.

    How can a game primarily played with the hands be refferred to as football?:confused::D

    Back on topic; if you dont know about crumpets, Scones are gonna really perplex you:)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Zella
    No you dosey mare! First picture, Crisps. Second picture is most defenatly not frys, they are chips. Frys are much thinner.

    no no no you crazy european... it's spelled fries and those are not chips.. they're french fries.. and the first picture are CHIPS!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Martin_Bashir
    Apart from food im am somewhat alarmed over the confusion between 'Football' (or 'Soccer') and that American hand-ball sport, the one with the egg-shaped-affair.

    How can a game primarily played with the hands be refferred to as football?:confused::D

    Back on topic; if you dont know about crumpets, Scones are gonna really perplex you:)

    okay you make a good point.. football shoudlnt' be called football in america.. but you have to admit.. it's one helluva good sport!!!
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