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SlothfulCobra posted:The point of the described plate is that it's just an easy meal to prepare for tired parents cooking for children who don't have any taste anyways. It's not like what you'd get from fast food or a restaurant. Warm it up and plop it on a plate. Like one of these things but you assemble it yourself out of frozen fries, fishsticks, and a can o beans. Tbf id never feed a kid this either
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Mar 26, 2023 23:25
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OwlFancier posted:americans: why do you call things stupid names in the uk Nobody was complaining about the name of your pea goo. Although I guess mushy doesn’t seem to normally be in the american lexicon. Technically it's the same preparation as mashed potatoes, but for some reason the English feel the need to shorten that too. I think the biggest reason British dialects sound silly to American ears is because Americans are also aware of the cultivated "proper" formal British English dialect that tried and failed to impose order on the language, and all the informal, relaxed dialects (of which there are very many from the higher density of accent/dialect differences in the UK) sound more obviously like a failure to be the proper British English. Probably even what it was specifically constructed to stamp out.
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Mar 26, 2023 23:30
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What is the red body part next to the nose?
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Mar 26, 2023 23:34
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Horrible feeling its supposed to be an eye....
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Mar 26, 2023 23:35
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Imagine how hard you have to try to gently caress up poutine.
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Mar 26, 2023 23:39
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SlothfulCobra posted:Nobody was complaining about the name of your pea goo. I never really thought about it, but I do use 'mushy' reasonably commonly - but as a descriptor for things that are cooked too long, not a description of the mashing process. So I guess it has a negative connotation by default for me, "mashed peas" still sounds odd but not like it's a judgment on the food.
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Mar 26, 2023 23:40
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Facebook Aunt posted:What is the red body part next to the nose? Nipple
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Mar 26, 2023 23:42
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 Yeah, almost positive it's the eye mold partly under the spoon.
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Mar 26, 2023 23:43
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Pogonodon posted:
Huh, these are still a super popular thing in Japan, oddly enough. Used to be guaranteed one every month when I subbed to Japan Crate.
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Mar 26, 2023 23:46
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Getting a lot of mixed signals from their choices of adjectives
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Mar 27, 2023 00:43
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Hirayuki posted:It's also a mostly outdated for a prostitute, which is another strange job for an unemployment office to recommend to anyone, really. That was the first meaning to come to my American mind when I read it in high school. Yeah, same, I remember reading that word in that context in, I don’t quite remember, Death of a Salesman?
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Mar 27, 2023 00:55
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There were a few products in the 90s with stronger theming.     "Make some tasty gummy bodyparts" Okay, weird. Whatever. "Eat these weird gross horrifying mad science experiments!" Now you're talking. That's gonna make kids interested. Japan instead goes for cute and cheap. I've actually even seen these at the grocery store, but I've never tried myself. It looks kinda fun.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBWiU9X0vf0
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Mar 27, 2023 01:17
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think the biggest reason British dialects sound silly to American ears is because Americans... Everything after this post was wrong so I'll just complete it from there with the right answer: ...are by and large poorly educated simpletons whose exceptionalism means they're surprised and weirdly fascinated by the idea that English can be natively spoken in different ways.
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Mar 27, 2023 01:26
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monkeytennis posted:Fish fingers aren't the same as the fish you get from the chippy. That’s cod or haddock battered and fried. I'm living near the ocean and now and I really miss freshwater walleye and perch. It's all haddock here and it's not nearly as good.
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Mar 27, 2023 01:35
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Whooping Crabs posted:I'm living near the ocean and now and I really miss freshwater walleye and perch. It's all haddock here and it's not nearly as good.
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Mar 27, 2023 02:20
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Hirayuki posted:I had fish & chips with grouper in the Bahamas that was out of this world, holy poo poo. Greuben sandwich. You’ll thank me later. I try not to eat grouper too much though, they’re under pretty intense fishing pressure. 
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Mar 27, 2023 02:49
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 Same, buddy
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Mar 27, 2023 02:52
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Butterfly Valley posted:Everything after this post was wrong so I'll just complete it from there with the right answer: 
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Mar 27, 2023 04:00
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SlothfulCobra posted:There were a few products in the 90s with stronger theming. You can see a major difference where the American products are quick and simple to make which appeals to young children and their lack of patience and in the Japanese kits the careful construction of it all is most of the fun.
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Mar 27, 2023 07:31
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Hirayuki posted:It's also a mostly outdated for a prostitute, which is another strange job for an unemployment office to recommend to anyone, really. That was the first meaning to come to my American mind when I read it in high school.
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Mar 27, 2023 08:09
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Butterfly Valley posted:Everything after this post was wrong so I'll just complete it from there with the right answer: Write better next time pls, 
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Mar 27, 2023 09:12
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Someone threw out some unusual cookbooks, and I can't find a better thread for them: The ?official? Aldi cookbook has no pictures at all. The book of 100 Müslis has only generic stuff. For example oatmeal with orangejuice instead of milk and a splash of lemon juice which I dislike  The double chicken decorations book, has decoration ideas:  The probably would be cool for someone with a child the right age. And somehow this here "warm grape salad": The heart is paprika boiled in butter, garnished with Mayonese and food colouring. The "soup" is boiled white wine with the butter from the paprika and Champaign and spices. 
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Mar 27, 2023 12:15
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Aldidente is inspired.
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Mar 27, 2023 12:19
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Strong Meatboat energy from that chicken cookbook. Also it's all right to just write a shorter book, there's no need to use a whole column to explain the concept of breakfast cereals in orange juice.
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Mar 27, 2023 12:50
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Write better next time pls, I was leaning into the uppity British persona in response to an American saying British words and accents sound funny, I'm sorry if it landed bad but I wasn't being 100% serious I'm a language teacher and I do find the subject very interesting though. I think the main reason Americans find British accents funny/weird is just one of exposure - it's the form of non-american native English they're most likely to encounter, given the population of the UK and its cultural exports (Harry Potter, Sherlock, Bond, Dr Who etc). The overall similarity just highlights and amplifies the small differences and makes them seem funny/weird/whatever. I don't think it's anything to do with differences between RP and other British accents as OP argued, as in my experience RP is the most widely impersonated/mocked British accent going. I imagine if the population and cultural output of the UK and idk New Zealand were swapped, you'd have the same thing happening but just with Americans making fun of Kiwi accents instead.
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Butterfly Valley posted:I was leaning into the uppity British persona this backfires on you every single time you do it
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Mar 27, 2023 13:37
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MrYenko posted:I try not to eat grouper too much though, they’re under pretty intense fishing pressure. If you can get it while in season, snook is also excellent.
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Mar 27, 2023 15:02
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SlothfulCobra posted:Nobody was complaining about the name of your pea goo. You can flick your beans to any degree of goo you want but don't call them mushy.
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By popular demand posted:You can see a major difference where the American products are quick and simple to make which appeals to young children and their lack of patience and in the Japanese kits the careful construction of it all is most of the fun. It’s definitely all about the construction; my daughter has had a few of those kits and the end product was always… weird. More slushy than gummy in texture, and somehow gritty. But she loves making them, being all about the crafty stuff, so
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Just to note, mushy peas aren't mashed, they just get like that from cooking. They are made from marrowfat peas, where the sugar in the green peas has transformed into starch. When I was a kid, they used to come as dried peas in a plastic bag, with a tablet of (I think) baking soda included, to help them cook. Nasty, nasty peas.
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You can plant those dried peas and they'll grow, which is cool. Mushy peas are delicious.
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Zero_Grade posted:It's a shame because grouper is loving delicious. Ya, there’s a reason they’re under pressure.  I don’t think I’ve ever eaten snook. The couple I’ve caught, I released.
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Americans have pea soup which is literally just mushy peas with a bit of broth added. \/\/ Fine, Wisconsin Lutheran Church potlucks have pea soup that is just mushy peas with broth added BigHead has a new favorite as of 17:58 on Mar 27, 2023 |
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BigHead posted:Americans have pea soup which is literally just mushy peas with a bit of broth added. I make pea soup all the time and it's much more than that (carrots, onions, bacon, peas, cream, spices)
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Speaking of British favo(u)rites, I crossed into Canada this past weekend in part to stop at the British shop, where I picked up a few unusual snacks: Chocolate with cheesy onion potato crisp pieces in. Haven't tried this yet. My family recoiled at the thought, but I figured, poo poo, it's the last one in the box, so it can't be all that bad. Plus perennial thread favorite Parma Violets (the GIANT variety).  This was apparently a Christmas thing, but I don't give a poo poo. Pigs in blankets sounds like a fine flavor for potato chips. Also apparently at least one brand of British dessert gelatin comes not as a powder, but as a dense block of concentrated gelatin that you reconstitute with boiling water before pouring into molds and chilling?? This is bizarre to my raised-with-Jell-O rear end, so I picked one up (black currant flavor, yesss). Hirayuki has a new favorite as of 21:44 on Mar 27, 2023 |
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Tayto's are a NI thing I think? Don't get em round this way anyway. Parma violets are vile. I'm pretty sure Pig in Blanket flavour is just Smokey Bacon in a different bag but I could be wrong. The jelly block jelly is the default jelly here and the stuff that comes in a powder is weird.
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