Pub

There’s not much beer in this pub 🙂

LOL. I could go for one. It’s hot and I don’t have A/C. A beer would be a nice way to cool off.

It’s been hot over here in the U.K I’ve been sweating like the last Bee Gee.

Where do you come up with these lines? I like them.

I know it man. I’m really digging all these British sayings.

LOL Just happy if the way we talk makes you smile.

I get asked by folks in the U.S all the time.

Only the other day a young woman asked me for a double entendre so I gave her one. ( lets see if that old joke works?) 🙂

My brother visited the UK on a school trip. He really enjoyed himself. I was pissed when I found out there is such a thing as Johnny Walker Yellow and he didn’t bring me back a bottle. I seldom drink, but when the occasion arises there’s nothing better than JW Blue label. Unfortunately $250 a bottle is a bit pricey so I usually settle for Black label. He did bring me some packets of Brown sauce though. Never knew there was such a thing.

The Yellow label was a 100th anniversary run but I think it was just regular black label whiskey in the bottle.

Its expensive blended whisky, and now owned and brewed miles away from where it was originally made ( It got bought by the big boys).

I have tried a few but a good single malt whisky gets my vote 🙂

I think it may be still true that if the label is spelt whisky its brewed in Scotland and if it’s spelt with an e in there it is not.

Just don’t let a Scotsman catch you adding anything to a single malt.lol

Brown sauce is a must on a grafter’s breakfast. ( a grafter is a hard working bloke)

Round here that’s 3 bacon, 2 sausages, 2 eggs, tinned or fresh grilled tomatoes,fried bread,baked beans, fried mushrooms, black pudding, and a large pile of toasted bread loaded with butter and then brown sauce.

Nice with a big pot of tea. 😀

We drink tea only in the summer, only if it’s ice cold, and only if it’s really sweet. That’s the southern way anyhow. Not sure how the Yankees do it.

Conductor562 wrote:

We drink tea only in the summer, only if it’s ice cold, and only if it’s really sweet. That’s the southern way anyhow. Not sure how the Yankees do it.

Being born and raised in New England, I can tell you they take their hot tea far more seriously than they take sweat tea in the south. They have places called tea rooms where you can get many types of tea and they look at you funny if you mention ice. They also take coffee seriously as well, and have some coffee houses that make Starbucks, look like a fast food restaurant along the lines of Burger King.

In general, they take food a lot more seriously then they do in the south, with the exception of barbeque, and sweat tea .

Compare traditional foods like chicken fried steak to a New York strip, Maine lobster to blackened redfish, crab cakes vs salmon patties, not much I can compare to conch fritters, but I am thinking that is more of a Bahamian thing anyhow. I can’t even think of a traditional southern soup outside of Cajun gumbo or black eyed pea or bean soup verse Manhattan or New England clam chowder, lobster bisque. New England clam bake to a low country boil, Heck I have an almost impossible time trying to find a good pizza or even a descent hot dog here in Florida. I have to add Boston baked beans, Coney Island hot dogs, Philly cheese steaks, New York and Chicago pizza. And where else but the South could you find such delicacies as fried baloney, cracklings, and scrapple. I will concede to the south on Virginia ham, and you won’t go home hungry from a proper southern breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, fried potatoes, with biscuits covered in white sausage gravy, and a strong cup of hot coffee, although a northern steak and eggs breakfast is nothing to sneeze at.

Please describe Biscuits?

Because over here they are a sweet not a savoury.

Here in West Virginia we get a bit of both. As I’m sure you’re aware we separated from Virginia during the Civil War because at the time the bulk of the population in what is now WV was in the northern part of the State where there was a strong northern sympathy. From day 1 we’ve been the red headed stepchild of states. We’re below the Mason – Dixon line which leads us to be considered a southern state by the academic community and the northern states, while the details of our founding sometimes leads us to be regarded as a northern state by the southerners. The truth is really kind of in between. During the Civil war my hometown featured a union officers academy on one side of the street and a confederate recruiting station on the other and almost everyone has relatives who fought on both sides. It was truly a brother versus brother war in WV. The northern part of the state has a very northern feel about it while the southern part of the state has an undeniably southern personality. Even the weather straddles the fence. We have long hot summers and long cold winters. You might find hot tea and crumpets in Wheeling, but Charleston is a sweet tea and peach cobbler kinda place. The majority of us consider ourselves southerners.

Wayne: In the south biscuits are heavy and made with buttermilk, NEVER sweet! Rolls are sweet, biscuits are buttery. Cornbread is kinda the in between.

Thank you for that.

I think its cool learning. 🙂

Has anyone seen Eric by the way?I think we need to send out a search party and make sure he is O.K

Eeeeeeeeeeric…….is..you..there?

LOL Its like the blair witch project hahahahaha. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIC are you out there? lol 😀

LOL

Gulp they’re picking us off one by one LOL 😀

LOL. We had a problem with our email and was overwhelmed. Can’t stand spammers. I think I am OK now, well at least for the email.

PutnamEco wrote:

Being born and raised in New England, I can tell you they take their hot tea far more seriously than they take sweat tea in the south. They have places called tea rooms where you can get many types of tea and they look at you funny if you mention ice. They also take coffee seriously as well, and have some coffee houses that make Starbucks, look like a fast food restaurant along the lines of Burger King.

In general, they take food a lot more seriously then they do in the south, with the exception of barbeque, and sweat tea .

Compare traditional foods like chicken fried steak to a New York strip, Maine lobster to blackened redfish, crab cakes vs salmon patties, not much I can compare to conch fritters, but I am thinking that is more of a Bahamian thing anyhow. I can’t even think of a traditional southern soup outside of Cajun gumbo or black eyed pea or bean soup verse Manhattan or New England clam chowder, lobster bisque. New England clam bake to a low country boil, Heck I have an almost impossible time trying to find a good pizza or even a descent hot dog here in Florida. I have to add Boston baked beans, Coney Island hot dogs, Philly cheese steaks, New York and Chicago pizza. And where else but the South could you find such delicacies as fried baloney, cracklings, and scrapple. I will concede to the south on Virginia ham, and you won’t go home hungry from a proper southern breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, fried potatoes, with biscuits covered in white sausage gravy, and a strong cup of hot coffee, although a northern steak and eggs breakfast is nothing to sneeze at.

That’s it I am going to eat. Now what should I start with.

Conductor562 wrote:

Here in West Virginia we get a bit of both. As I’m sure you’re aware we separated from Virginia during the Civil War because at the time the bulk of the population in what is now WV was in the northern part of the State where there was a strong northern sympathy. From day 1 we’ve been the red headed stepchild of states. We’re below the Mason – Dixon line which leads us to be considered a southern state by the academic community and the northern states, while the details of our founding sometimes leads us to be regarded as a northern state by the southerners. The truth is really kind of in between. During the Civil war my hometown featured a union officers academy on one side of the street and a confederate recruiting station on the other and almost everyone has relatives who fought on both sides. It was truly a brother versus brother war in WV. The northern part of the state has a very northern feel about it while the southern part of the state has an undeniably southern personality. Even the weather straddles the fence. We have long hot summers and long cold winters. You might find hot tea and crumpets in Wheeling, but Charleston is a sweet tea and peach cobbler kinda place. The majority of us consider ourselves southerners.

Wayne: In the south biscuits are heavy and made with buttermilk, NEVER sweet! Rolls are sweet, biscuits are buttery. Cornbread is kinda the in between.

I love history, even though I don’t know anything. Thanks for that info. That was truly brother against brother.

Conductor562 wrote:

We drink tea only in the summer, only if it’s ice cold, and only if it’s really sweet. That’s the southern way anyhow. Not sure how the Yankees do it.

Even though I live in Illinois, the Bankrupt state ( I think we might be changing our license plates to that motto soon), I associate myself more with the south in terms of values etc. However, I can’t stand sweet tea. I drink tea all the time, but unsweetened tea. Not a huge fan of hot tea except in the winter when I am sick and have a man cold

Nothing like a cold glass of tea in the summer. Besides water, tea is the only thing that really quenches my thirst. Well, Ok beer does also. Someone told me that sweet tea in the south is so much different then sweet tea in the north, so next time I am in the south, I am going to give it a try.

Wayne, what about you. Isn’t tea big by you also?

My wife and I went to New York City last summer for a work related conference. Everyone we knew that had been there suggested we check out the street vendors for lunch. So, we were sight seeing one day and stumbled upon one of the 5,000 Halal food vendors about the time my stomach started growling. I’ve done a good bit of traveling but being from an area where many high schools have like 1 or 2 black kids, 1 mexican kid every 4 or 5 years, and never a muslim kid EVER, it isn’t exactly the most cultured place to live. It’s a beautiful place, the cost of living is low, and I could go on vacation, leave my door unlocked, and my neighbor would probably mow my lawn while I was gone, but culturally diverse it is not. We had not the slightest of clues what Halal food was. We saw a bunch of them and we just figured it was some big street vending chain or something. So my buddy from Virginia and I went to the Halal cart and our wives went to the one called King Tut which was right beside it. I ordered chicken and rice and it was spicy and very good. My wife ordered a Philly cheesesteak and we sat down at Rockefeller center to eat. As we started eating I noticed that the King Tut cart said something about Halal food and I realized Halal wasn’t a brand name. About that time my wife started spitting and hacking, and said, there’s something not right with this sandwich! What’s wrong with it I asked? I don’t know, it’s like the beef is out of date or something, it’s just awful. She walks back up to the cart and tells the guy the beef is out of date. He looks at her and says “beef?” she stood silent for a moment and asked “this isn’t beef?” “No, no, no, lamb” My wife turned white as a ghost. After a quick google search on my iPhone I discovered Halal is the islamic equivalent of Kosher. Had I have known that we’d have probably just went to Mcdonald’s. At least their Kangaroo patties taste similar to beef.

In England we have Hot tea with milk and if you like sugar then go right ahead.

We also have cold tea but in some parts of the U.K tea is like a very very big deal, how it is brewed in the tea pot e.t.c.

It is really the Japanese that take tea to the extreme, so much so they even have a ceremony

That takes it into an art form 😀

That is the way life should be. You can leave your doors unlocked. People respect each other and help each other out. Where did we go wrong. Sorry not to change the subject about Tea I never knew there was s much to tea.

Eric J wrote:

Even though I live in Illinois, the Bankrupt state ( I think we might be changing our license plates to that motto soon), I associate myself more with the south in terms of values etc. However, I can’t stand sweet tea. I drink tea all the time, but unsweetened tea. Not a huge fan of hot tea except in the winter when I am sick and have a man cold

Nothing like a cold glass of tea in the summer. Besides water, tea is the only thing that really quenches my thirst. Well, Ok beer does also. Someone told me that sweet tea in the south is so much different then sweet tea in the north, so next time I am in the south, I am going to give it a try.

Wayne, what about you. Isn’t tea big by you also?

Iced tea is not as common a drink in the north as it is in the south, often when you go to a restaurant, unless it is a decent one, your NOT going to get fresh tea. tea looses its flavor pretty quickly. Some less than reputable places will even give you instant tea. Down here if Florida they drink so much iced tea they have brewers like a much larger version of the common coffee maker which I don’t believe I’ve ever seen anywhere but the south. I would bet that these machines contribute a lot to the reputation of tea in the south.

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Beware of “southern” values there are both good and bad, bigotry and racism are a lot more common down here in the south.

I can’t believe you would let a discussion on food go by without mentioning some of Chicago’s most famous foods. Like deep dish pizza, and the Chicago hot dog. which is one of the big three of hot dog styles, and not a peep about horseshoe sandwiches either..

Did someone say pizza?

Even at 4am that’s enough to make me awake sniffing the air like scooby do. LOL 😀

“Beware of “southern” values there are both good and bad, bigotry and racism are a lot more common down here in the south.”

I’d be willing to agree with that but it’s a lot more true in the deep south than it is here. It’s like anywhere else. Every bigger town I’ve ever been in had neighborhoods that white people were warned not to go. I’ve never felt as out of place being white as I do when I go to Atlanta.

LOL, I could go for some pizza also, well a dog does sound good. Guess I am going with both.

Your right about the instant tea. That’s what we have a lot here and it sucks. If you want a good cup of tea, you have to visit a McDonald’s, yes a McDonald’s. Not that it is great, but everything else just sucks.

Over here it has to be brewed in a tea pot the tea pot pre warmed and left to brew for exactly long enough then hot out of the pot with milk and sugar.

Cold tea is rarer I think the weather has a lot to do with it. 🙂

“If you want a good cup of tea, you have to visit a McDonald’s, yes a McDonald’s. Not that it is great, but everything else just sucks.”

This is possibly the first time in history that McDonald’s has been touted as producing the finest quality product in town. lol.

At least in the U.S you get a decent amount of food at a fast food outlet.We get a burger the size of a shirt button, and enough fries for a decoration in your breast pocket.

There is a real chance that there is more nutrition in the box.lol

Yea, over here they make things healthier by just giving you less of it for the same price. They claim it’s healthy, they make more money, and you walk away still hungry. I guess bullshit is bullshit no matter where you go.

Yep you are spot on there.

I’ve really come to enjoy this forum. I never participated much in forums before because they were typically littered with either A: College kids who have no concept of adult responsibility. B: People who very existence revolves around some fictional fantasy concept created by a movie, TV show, or book series, or C: Genusis by their own proclamation who will never concede that they are neither wrong and complete douchebags anyway. It’s nice to have a place to congregate with normal, down to earth, working class people, of different backgrounds.

Amen to that 🙂

Right on guys. That’s why I never went to forums either.

I couldn’t believe I actually said McDonald’s had the best of something

I must admit Macdonalds is a joke lol

Over here where I live we are big on fish and chips, and one portion of our chips which are like giant fries is about a pound in weight compared to Macdonalds where you can just about fill the breast pocket on a suit jacket. 😀

I have always loved internet communities, ever since the first BBSs I have always found some people passionate about the same things I was. Something that is sometimes hard to do IRL. There are some awesome forums and blogs out there that have great knowledge bases. I must admit though that some of them have caused me to become pretty thick skinned, especially when it comes to politics. I would much rather waste an evening on the forums than stuck in front of a television, especially these days with the lack of any really good programming.

It is a great way to get to know new people, make some friends and help a few folks along the way if we are lucky. 🙂

I hear you on that one.