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DarkFists posted...

Wait, scones are eaten with beef? And roast beef at that? Talk about weird.

Also, you caused me to look up Yorkshire pudding...I can see how it gets mucked up often

No definitely not. Scones are eaten with tea and perhaps a bit of jam. Perhaps in the late morning, perhaps in the afternoon, but never for dinner.

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Cilantro is just the Spanish word for coriander so the way to pronounce it is pretty much like that.

SEE-LON-TRO


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pinky0926 posted...

No definitely not. Scones are eaten with tea and perhaps a bit of jam. Perhaps in the late morning, perhaps in the afternoon, but never for dinner.

Oh okay, I misread, yeah, that makes more sense

Don't think I've ever had an authentic scone before...hard to find here in the boonies :P

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pinky0926 posted...

DarkFists posted...

Wait, scones are eaten with beef? And roast beef at that? Talk about weird.

Also, you caused me to look up Yorkshire pudding...I can see how it gets mucked up often

No definitely not. Scones are eaten with tea and perhaps a bit of jam. Perhaps in the late morning, perhaps in the afternoon, but never for dinner.

You forgot the cream

Also, cream then jam :P
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teepan95 posted...

You forgot the cream

Also, cream then jam :P

yes true

I prefer the cream to the jam really

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I lived near Cambridge for a few years in my early 20s, and my impression of British food was that it was mostly a lot of brown meh. I was fortunate enough to live in a tiny village (just two streets), though, and the local pub owners really liked me. On Fridays, the wife that did all the cooking would ditch the typical pub fare and do a random special and she would take suggestions from me a lot of the time since I had lived in quite a few countries by that point. She was a damn good cook, too.

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Also biscuits and gravy. What are you guys doing over there???

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pinky0926 posted...

Also biscuits and gravy. What are you guys doing over there???

Living the high life while dying just early enough that we don't become our grandparents

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pinky0926 posted...

Also biscuits and gravy. What are you guys doing over there???

wtf is that

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America calls it Cilantro because we respect our Mexican neigbors.

If Britain respected their Spanish neighbors, they'd call it cilantro too.

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DrizztLink posted...

With the exception of W (which is a stupid name in and of itself), letters shouldn't have more than one sound in them.

D is its own . . . letter, it doesn't belong there.

If it was consistent, wouldn't it be Ded Zed? Ded Zed also sounds like a band name within a movie.

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Choco posted...

wtf is that

I don't know but apparently it's not actually biscuits, nor gravy

AmericaTheBrave posted...

America calls it Cilantro because we respect our Mexican neigbors.

If Britain respected their Spanish neighbors, they'd call it cilantro too.

Are these the same mexican neighbours you've been showering in respect since the 2016 election

oh yeah I went there


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Choco posted...

wtf is that

Biscuits (not cookies) with country (white) gravy over em basically

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DuneMan posted...

If it was consistent, wouldn't it be Ded Zed? Ded Zed also sounds like a band name within a movie.

Ded Zeds dead, baby. Ded Zeds dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeds_Dead

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5lL1ypndnWA

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This is biscuits & gravy:



I dont eat this outside of the occasions when I order an eggs benedict at a breakfast place.

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pinky0926 posted...

See this is exactly it. The summary of our worlwide conquest around the globe and thousands of years of history can be summarised by a fatty, tumorous looking pastry you put next to roast beef, the least delicious kind of roast there is.

And you know what kills me? Most brits can't even cook a yorkshire pudding to save themselves. You know what it's like being british? Hearing the words "I've fucked up the yorkshires again" every weekend of your life since birth.

Just looked up Yorkshire pudding and def wanna try it. I was supposed to go to London for my honeymoon but that was cancelled due to Covid. Any food recommendations for whenever I do get to go, which won't be until 2022 at this point? I think the only british food I've ever eaten is Shepherds pie and that's pretty good.

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Confused when I watched a british cooking video and they kept mentioning aubergine and I didn't know what that was until they held up an eggplant.

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Shablagoo posted...

This is biscuits & gravy:



I dont eat this outside of the occasions when I order an eggs benedict at a breakfast place.

But that doesn't look like it has biscuits or gravy in it

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Also, re Yorkshire puddings, there are two distinct types:

The one that you have as part of a toad in the hole (Giant Yorkshire with sausages inside and usually ACTUAL gravy on top) which is a bit more bready than the other kind.

The one you have with a roast/carvery. Can be big or small.

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Oatcakes posted...

But that doesn't look like it has biscuits or gravy in it

We call anything gravy-like made from drippings of animal fat gravy, be it brown or white...and now I'm trying to imagine brown gravy on what we call cookies and...it's unappetizing

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btw we havent even discussed macaroni and gravy yet:

https://tv.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/ef459ee2-b8d6-43b3-b234-000e4c0c1dd0

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^that's just a word for red sauce to some italian american families that suffer from years of huffing paint fumes

Apple pie though.

Who doesn't love that good ol' British food?

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Oatcakes posted...

Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Saying "it's what the Spanish call it" as the reason isn't really going to fly here.

Not the Spanish, the Mexicans.

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This is a biscuit.



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Biscuits and gravy is a sort of savory scone served with a sausage roux. It is the best thing the US has contributed to breakfast, and I'd eat it every morning if my body could take it.

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as a scottish guy you might like biscuits and gravy tc but most normal people think it looks and tastes like puke

Those say digestive on them, they are obviously something from a pharmacist to help people who have a disorder of some kind.

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Alteres posted...

Those say digestive on them, they are obviously something from a pharmacist to help people who have a disorder of some kind.

Its a type of Biscuit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_biscuit

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