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Marmite!! nectar of the gods.....yummm......:-)
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In Australia, french fries are called chips.
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* You can call then anything you like! Doesn't make them French, though..;)
Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor)
French Fries, French Toast, French Letter, etc... none of these are necessarily French but the misnomers don't stop with the French.
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<<Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor) >>
Hey, I'm British. Having a sense of humour is our birthright! :-)
Geoff, in Britain we call them chips, too. (And what Americans call 'chips' we call 'crisps')
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Hellas,
=>Aha...At least someone has a sense of humor. (as opposed to a German sense of humor) <=
I'm not a German neither do I have their sense of humour.
Ever thought of the idea that my kind of humour is different from yours?! I love sarcasm,irony and black humour.
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* Hey, I'm British. Having a sense of humour is our birthright! :-)
Oh yeah, I know about that self-stereotype ;)
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chips & french fries ain't the same thing, you cry babies
get a grip
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<<you cry babies
get a grip >>
WTF????
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I agree. Anglo-Saxon wine, like most things Anglo-Saxon, is doing better than French wine. Wine sales in France are decreasing, whereas last year they increased by a massive 23% in Britain. As things stand, the British will be drinking more wine than the French by the year 2015 - but British wine and wine from other Anglo-Saxon countries such as the US and Australia. The US will become a biger consumer of wine than France by 2008.
Also, a British wine was voted the best in the world recently.
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"ADAM.....the UK once had a very awkward monetary system....LSD...(nothing hallucinatory!) ...librae, solidii, denarii...pounds, shillings and pence....a THREE tier system - £.s.d. How the hell would we cope with something like that now in this country? "
No-one thought it awkward at the time. But they found the current decimal system that we have now awkward to start off with. We used that system of hundreds of years and no-one complained.
What next? Are you saying that the measurement of time (days, months, years, etc) should be decimalised?
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"Geoff, in Britain we call them chips, too. (And what Americans call 'chips' we call 'crisps') "
And what we call "jelly" in Britain the Yanks call "jell-O", and what we call "jam" the Yanks call "jelly", so whenever an American says "I'm having jelly on ym sandwich" it makes me want to vomit.
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