Here’s another post to add to the discussion of British food and online arguments, from Quercus Community. It’s well worth your time.
Notes from the U.K.
Exploring the spidery corners of a culture and the weird stuff that tourist brochures ignore.
Here’s another post to add to the discussion of British food and online arguments, from Quercus Community. It’s well worth your time.
Notes from the U.K. 
i am loving these posts about English foods………lol
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A super article but I’m not sure quite what point they are making about either the food, or avoiding arguments. I also read your post on British food and enjoyed it immensely. There seem to be various ways of making lasagne (yes, why do we spell it like that?) as I always use a cheese sauce in mine and the mince is cooked in a tomato sauce. But anyway. Good stuff all round, I’d say!
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Point? Oh. Did there have to be a point? I think he was just having some fun along the way. That’ll work for me.
As for spelling lasagna with an E, my best guess is that someone figured out that it was the Italian plural and went nuts: Look, we use several sheets of pasta in here, so let’s make it plural. Aren’t we clever?
A little learning is a dangerous thing…
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You can say that again. All the same, it was all a lot of fun. So that’s just super :)
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Ellen, you’re a poor woman! You must not show the richness of your character by linking to everybody who calls you that. Or a “he”.
That said, I almost commented over there and if this goes on with the third post, I shall. Hard to keep quiet over here.
Can’t even laugh any more. :(
I’d rather read your posts, please?
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I got a kick out of Quercus Community’s post. The guy’s got a sense of humor. But if you don’t click the links, I’ll never know.
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I clicked, that’s why I know he calls you a poor woman. As long as you’re happy.
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He got me laughing. Maybe I wasn’t meant to, but what the hell, I was happy. And I’ve certainly been called worse–by people who meant it.
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He’s someone else who likes stodge :-) His comment about semolina reminded me of a cooking tip I’ve been given (since we seem to be on a culinary trip at the moment). If you boil the potatoes you’re about to roast then shake them, still in the saucepan but no longer in water, in semolina, they become very crispy. Personally, I think this is a waste of semolina, which I like.
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Since I can never be bothered to roast potatoes (or much of anything else–I think you have to be British-born to do it), I doubt I’ll be taking the tip. But it did make me smile.
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I liked his post, it was funny, as was yours. Not so much the other one, but there’s a lot in what she says :)
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought he was funny. I was starting to wonder about myself.
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I am clueless… Why is being from London not being British? Or should I just keep my questions to my totally American Pacific Northwest self…
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It’s sort of like saying, “New York isn’t the United States.” Both because they’re not the entire country and they are, in some ways, very different from the rest of the country. And for what it’s worth, when I lived in New York (and we’re going back a hundred years or more) I used to hear New Yorkers say that–it wasn’t just the rest of the country trying to disown us. When I moved to Minnesota, I used to feel a bit like I’d grown up in a different country, and once, when I was teaching for Writers in the Schools, a kid, reacting to my accent, asked what country I was from. Without a second’s hesitation, I said, “New York.” We seemed to have agreed that it was a different country.
I don’t know if that entirely answers the question about London, but it’s as close as I can come from my perspective.
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