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Brits and their American cousins

PoS said:
That was years ago. Do you remember where youve eaten in each and every place?

Again I ask what is your examples of outstanding British food that I overlooked? Seems youre just stalling now.
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Bacon and eggs.
 
Manc Skipper said:
I'm more of a Chicken Tikka Masala man, but I get your drift!
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Is this the dish that Scotland was arguing with India over? Wasn't somebody trying to claim it as a national dish? Maybe I am really on the wrong track here, but I thought there was a story about a fight like that once.
 
Beaudreaux said:
The ones I walked into, and walked back out with fried fish and chips wrapped in newspaper or butchers paper.
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That's the ones! Those are the kind I go to all the time too!


I had this fancy girlfriend once, liked to eat "foreign" and she tried talking me into going to this plush fancy place with a big golden "M" above the roof; she told me it was something called "hottie cuisine" or something like that.


I didn't take to her, I like my women honest and simple like my fish and chips so I dumped her double quick.
 
I don't think I have ever met anyone who didn't like fish and chips. Also, fish markets are smelly places, but so are some other specialty shops and certain areas of grocery stores. It doesn't bother me, though, because the food can be so tasty after I bring it home and cook it.

I remember being a little kid and my grandpa would take us to this seafood market in his town by the ocean. I always complained about how it was so stinky and icky, but I never complained about the lobster, scallops and other great foods my grandpa would cook up for dinner that night!
 
If it came wrapped in newspaper it had to be twenty years ago, before the carcinogenic properties of newsprint were widely known, and the cleanliness implications of the source of the used newspapers was considered.
 
infinite chaos said:
that's the ones! Those are the kind i go to all the time too!


I had this fancy girlfriend once, liked to eat "foreign" and she tried talking me into going to this plush fancy place with a big golden "m" above the roof; she told me it was something called "hottie cuisine" or something like that.


I didn't take to her, i like my women honest and simple like my fish and chips so i dumped her double quick.
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lmlwao
 
Infinite Chaos said:
Not always good...

I used to work at a place built over a large Roman Fort and parade ground, every time we expanded and needed to build new facilities, by law we had to get archaeologists in and the fees were steep. If they found anything, building stopped for 6 months while they checked for artifacts.

Also, a friend of mine lived in an old cob house, the material demand special care. If cob dries out then it decays and falls apart and you can't paint with ordinary paint so he had to have a permanently damp(ish) house and redecorating costs were high. But then you know what you're getting if you choose to buy a cob house to live in.
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I have no doubt, that's a pain in the ass.
Kinda similar but not the same here.

If you find any arrowheads, etc. you're supposed to leave them, it's illegal to keep them, but they're nearly, literally everywhere.
Anytime a farmer plows a field, you're bound to find some high quality arrowheads.
 
Infinite Chaos said:
Now you're just showing off.



Toast!
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And tea.

To be fair, the bacon and eggs was a smartass retort regarding POS sigline. :mrgreen: But good occasionally with sausages.

Alyssa T. said:
Is this the dish that Scotland was arguing with India over? Wasn't somebody trying to claim it as a national dish? Maybe I am really on the wrong track here, but I thought there was a story about a fight like that once.
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It allegedly originates from here. A Gleswegian said it, so it must be true.
 
A diner allegedly found his Chicken Tikka too dry and sent it back, so the cook added some tomato soup, and Britain's national dish was born! Unless you believe the Daily Heil, which claimed a couple of years ago that Chinese stir-fry meals had overtaken it.
 
Chagos said:
To pick at one item, Britain has a naval tradition that puts steering in cars on the same side as the starboard side (the stearing side) indicates on water travelling vessels world wide even today. Hence they also drive the roads on the side most conducive to the position of the steering wheel.
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There is a theory that because most people are right handed walking or riding a horse on the left hand side left your sword arm free to defend yourself.
 
Manc Skipper said:
If it came wrapped in newspaper it had to be twenty years ago, before the carcinogenic properties of newsprint were widely known, and the cleanliness implications of the source of the used newspapers was considered.
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Fish and chips were always wrapped in grease proof paper, the newspaper was the outer wrapping that kept the food warm till you got home.
 
Chagos said:
To pick at one item, Britain has a naval tradition that puts steering in cars on the same side as the starboard side (the stearing side) indicates on water travelling vessels world wide even today. Hence they also drive the roads on the side most conducive to the position of the steering wheel.
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zyzygy said:
There is a theory that because most people are right handed walking or riding a horse on the left hand side left your sword arm free to defend yourself.
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Also, there is the British sailing tradition of POSH accommodations, where the best cabins were on the port side leaving the UK because it was the windward side and the coolest cabin temperature with fresh air and the opposite, starboard on home legs (Port Out Starboard Home - POSH), for the same reasons. These all were also used in carriages and cabin wagons (cabs) and stayed that way when motor driven vehicles became the mode of transportation. Which, according to tradition, is why it is reversed here in the US.

But, it all supposedly started with horseback riders in England wanting to pass each other on their left side to keep their sword arm free if attacked. Or, so the legend goes.
 
Beaudreaux said:
Also, there is the British sailing tradition of POSH accommodations, where the best cabins were on the port side leaving the UK because it was the windward side and the coolest cabin temperature with fresh air and the opposite, starboard on home legs (Port Out Starboard Home - POSH), for the same reasons. These all were also used in carriages and cabin wagons (cabs) and stayed that way when motor driven vehicles became the mode of transportation. Which, according to tradition, is why it is reversed here in the US.

But, it all supposedly started with horseback riders in England wanting to pass each other on their left side to keep their sword arm free if attacked. Or, so the legend goes.
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The port out starboard home theory does not appear to be true.

Perhaps the most common and, at first glance persuasive, explanation for the origin of posh comes from folk etymology. This popular account suggests that posh is in fact an acronym, standing for port out, starboard home. It refers to the fact that on sea voyages between Britain and India, the most comfortable (in terms of being cooler) and therefore most expensive cabins on ship would be on the port side going out, and the starboard side coming back. It was further suggested that the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company issued tickets for the more expensive cabins on this route with the letters P.O.S.H., and that this is where the origin lies. This rationalisation does seem, on the face of it, persuasive, and it is clearly a good story. Sadly, no evidence exists to back it up and no tickets with this designation have been found. It also begs the question of what happens on voyages between the two places if your home was in India. ‘He’s a soph fellow’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, does it?

What is the origin of the word 'posh'? | OxfordWords blog
POSH - Port out, starboard home - meaning and origin.
 
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