Monday, 4 May 2009
Words
It takes a while to get used to all the different terms/words they use here in the UK compared to Australia. Some of them make sense, for example, crisps (which everyone seems to eat with their lunch) instead of potato chips, removing any confusion between potato chips and hot chips. Others are just different like peppers for capsicum, clementines for mandarins, aubergine for eggplant, courgette for zucchini and mange-tout for snow peas. One I don't understand is why they call a burger a sandwich! So if you go to Burger King, a Whopper is a sandwich, not a hamburger. Strange!
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What is the deal with crisps??? With their lunches?? No wonder people do not respect English cuisine... They will turn into a nation of fattyboombahs. Are cucumbers peppers? I always thought it was capsicums (but as you know I do not cook many savoury dishes so I could be so very very wrong...
Crisps are popular on all occasions ... with lunch (standard in a meal deal) and at the pub. When going to the pub after work it is unusual to worry about having dinner, but crisps are a must! I don't think obesity is any worse here than Australia.
You are right about cucumbers ... I do mean capsicums ... for some reason I have always had difficulty mixing up capsicums and cucumbers! I will fix it in my blog.
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