01-03-2004, 02:50 PM | #41 |
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Wow, I must really be a true-Southerner. You all are talking about what biscuts and gravy are, and I have it about every day for breakfast! I need to get outta the South...
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01-04-2004, 11:55 PM | #42 | |
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01-05-2004, 12:28 AM | #43 |
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What are you talking about! Cell phones, candy, french fries, bisquits.
In the USA....Mobiles are decorations you hang on the ceiling, made with wire and strings and stuff. Lollies??? "Lollipops" are hard candy on a stick that you suck on. Chips are bought in a bag, usually made from potatoes and generally way too thin and crispy to make at home. Biscuits are flakey dough circles, eaten with stew or gravy. Cookies are sweet, not bisquits, except when Khamul puts syrup on them! I've never been a bisquit eater, they kind of feel heavy in the stomach, course, I really don't get excited over bread period. Happy New year!
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01-05-2004, 12:38 AM | #44 |
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Tsk, tsk, Lizra. Where's your world knowledge?
Mobiles are decorations and cell phones. Lollies refers to all 'candy' except for maybe chocolate. (Lollipop? Odd name, never heard of that. ) Chips are your fries, as well as potato crisps. But, as for our biscuits eaten with stew or gravy....*shudders uncontrollably* Our biscuits are your cookies. (But we have cookies too). [/Aussie word lecture] |
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*imagines Tim Tams and gravy*
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Sorry this is rather late, but I was camping in the desert with no electricity, running water or toilets on New Year's Eve through Friday (and before that, in the Texas Hill Country from Monday till New Year's Eve). My friend and I stayed up drinking rum, playing card and getting goofy until we were tossing cards and giggling in the tent. So, no Mooting for me that night. Anyway, happy New Year to all the Mooters.
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Speaking of mobile. I called up my "cousin" in Australia around Christmas time. He was on the net and I got the voicemail. On it it said "For Darren's mobile #### and for so and so's mobile ####" It took me awhile (three calls and getting the voicemail) to realize his father was saying "mobile". It sounded like "my bom". And Lizra - I like biscuits with margarine.
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biscuits with cream gravy (or cream gravy with sausage) is great!
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Happy New Year, everyone. May your taters grow big and bulbous in 2004.
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I've just been informed that they use 'chips' in Hebrew too, not fries. Dang fries. Aww, ya should just stop whingeing and stop bagging the Austraaaylian way, mate. Just bung a snag on the barbie, ya know, sit back and have a cuppa and she'll be right, love. Cassie, Tim Tams and gravy is just about the most disgusting thing I've ever heard of. *Shudders* Or would Tim Tams and Vegemite be worse? Edit: If you Americans call chips fries, what do you call 'fish and chips' then? Fish and fries? Last edited by Linaewen : 01-05-2004 at 08:16 AM. |
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Now whats all this talk of biscuits for new years? everyone knows the real tradition is ham hocks and black eyed peas. Although this year I cooked a whole pork shoulder with baked beans instead. i got back home too late to soak the black eyed peas.
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I don't care for ham hocks, but I love my black eyed peas... its a tradition in the South to have black eyed peas on New Year's day. The tradition of eating black eyed peas (aka "cowpeas") in a dish called "Hopping John" on New Year's Eve originated in Vicksburg, Virginia during the Civil War. Vicksburg was under seige from the Northern army for over a month (40 days). During this time, the Northern army burned the crops and stole the livestock in hopes that the town would soon surrender. (A technique that was employed a lot by the Northern troops during the Civil War.) They left the weedy looking crop that was grown to feed livestock. Because of the seige, the residence of the town ran out of food stores and began to starve. They had to turn to the livestock feed to survive. If you had "cowpeas" to eat during the seige, you were considered "lucky". The battle was lost but those that had "cowpeas" didn't starve. The story spread throughout the South and became a tradition to eat black eyed peas on the January 1st. Personally, I like blackeyed peas and cornbread, sometimes with greens. I didn't have any this year, though I have every New Year's Day for all my life. I don't really believe in all that luck stuff anyway. |
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My family's favorite food is my homemade Southern biscuits (a recipe from my grandmother, who was from Georgia - one of the southern US states) with lots of butter and honey! Also they are good with butter and my mom's homemade apricot jam.
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We like blackeyes peas with pickle relish (my mom's homemade stuff - POTENT!) and also greens with pickle relish. Great Southern cookin'.
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Hah! When I was a kid, I thought the'chips' of their 'fish and chips' were the little crispy things that came with the fish - must've been fried pieces of batter or something (they used to heap them on... but later they held back a bit more). |
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Yes, I have - I LOVE it, but the kiddos don't, so I don't get it too often.
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