British phrases - Page 11

monster · 12-03-2006, 12:09 PM

gotta have the fried bread. I like to preceed mine with diet coke to strip the beer coating so I can taste it better. Hold the black pudding for me, though.

(haven't actually tried one of those hangover concoctions, though, I'm sure they'd just bring on the barf.....)

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-10-2006, 09:48 PM

I once greatly entertained a Portsmouth taxi driver by pronouncing the town I'd been in the previous day on a day-trip as... "Sal-is-bury."

His eyes got rather big and he exclaimed, "I love the way you pronounce Salisbury! -- better than ours." As I got into the taxi, I said, "And the pity of it is, I do know the native pronunciation and try and follow it." Well, we had a wonderful gab all the way from the waterfront to downtown, parted ways with expressions of esteem and went on our ways rejoicing.

So, um, in Brit-land... how many syllables in "Salisbury Steak?"

Fried bread around here usually means Navajo fried bread, like a puffy tortilla, on which other goodies are spread, either savory or sweet. If it's a slice of bread dipped in egg beaten in milk, it's French toast.

limey · 12-11-2006, 02:48 AM

Fried bread is just that over here - a slice of bread shallow fried in oil or butter. Much less common than it used to be ....

Sundae · 12-11-2006, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

So, um, in Brit-land... how many syllables in "Salisbury Steak?"

3 - Salls-bri Steak
Now you have to explain what a Salibury Steak is!

barefoot serpent · 12-11-2006, 09:40 AM

So, is Austin Powers vehicle the Shag -ewe - ar?

and why do the announcers on the BBC always say: Geogre W. Boosh?

Shawnee123 · 12-11-2006, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

3 - Salls-bri Steak
Now you have to explain what a Salibury Steak is!

One of my (many) pet peeves is when people pronounce it "sals-BERRY" or The Traveling Will-BERRIES.

It's burry, it is!

In Ohio, there's a lot of that going on, the butchering of pronunciations.

Sundae · 12-11-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by barefoot serpent

So, is Austin Powers vehicle the Shag -ewe - ar?

Yep!

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and why do the announcers on the BBC always say: Geogre W. Boosh?

Bush in this country rhymes with Shush. If it sounds more like boosch I suppose it's possible the announcer is Scottish?

Shawnee123 · 12-11-2006, 10:27 AM

There are many Ohio locals who say boosch, and feesh, and the like.

Tonchi · 12-12-2006, 01:29 AM

Hispanic version: JERGeh DOBlay-ooo Booosh

Aliantha · 12-12-2006, 04:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

One of my (many) pet peeves is when people pronounce it "sals-BERRY" or The Traveling Will-BERRIES.

It's burry, it is!

In Ohio, there's a lot of that going on, the butchering of pronunciations.

Bloody yanks are always butchering pronunciations!

chrisinhouston · 12-13-2006, 01:14 PM

My British grandparents came to America in 1952 to live with us and I was mostly raised by them when my mom went back to work in Manhatten.

I was always taught to say "I have to spend a penny" when I had to pee. Seems that this was the cost in the coin toilets in the UK and well brought up people would never say anything so crude as "I have to make pee pee"

Shawnee123 · 12-13-2006, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

Bloody yanks are always butchering pronunciations!

:p

monster · 12-13-2006, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

My British grandparents came to America in 1952 to live with us and I was mostly raised by them when my mom went back to work in Manhatten.

I was always taught to say "I have to spend a penny" when I had to pee. Seems that this was the cost in the coin toilets in the UK and well brought up people would never say anything so crude as "I have to make pee pee"

Absolutely. My mother liked us to say "I'm just going to powder my nose"

I'm sure she thought it was hysterical to hear a 5-year-old say that, and hang the consequences when said 5-year-old gets to school

Urbane Guerrilla · 12-13-2006, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

3 - Salls-bri Steak
Now you have to explain what a Salisbury Steak is!

Cube steak (maybe a burger patty) served up kind of de luxe by smothering it well in wine-and-mushroom gravy, usually with mashed potatoes on the side. Popular in Swanson TV dinners and military chow halls. I somewhere got the idea the Salisbury in question may have been in South Africa. ??

The first of 357 S.s. recipes on Cooks.com when I googled the critter. Wikipedia explains it also -- no wonder I've only seen the item in frozen dinners and chow halls/school lunch circumstances.

But foodreference.com refutes the S.A. idea, crediting the dish to one Dr. James H. Salisbury, fl. 19th century, a food faddist.

monster · 12-13-2006, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Cube steak (maybe a burger patty) served up kind of de luxe by smothering it well in mushroom gravy, usually with mashed potatoes on the side. Popular in Swanson TV dinners and military chow halls. I somewhere got the idea the Salisbury in question may have been in South Africa. ??

The first of 357 S.s. recipes on Cooks.com when I googled the critter. Wikipedia explains it also -- no wonder I've only seen the item in frozen dinners and chow halls/school lunch circumstances.

Well that certainly ain't British cuisine.

Steak is a whole piece of meat (no such thing as cube steak -if it's good enough to be steak, serve it whole; if it's a nasty cut, it's beef)

Burger patty? PATTY? Not a Brit word. Very 'gay' sounding

gravy is brown and doesn't involve anything that grows in the ground

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12-10-2006, 09:48 PM	#152
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	I once greatly entertained a Portsmouth taxi driver by pronouncing the town I'd been in the previous day on a day-trip as... "Sal-is-bury." His eyes got rather big and he exclaimed, "I love the way you pronounce Salisbury! -- better than ours." As I got into the taxi, I said, "And the pity of it is, I do know the native pronunciation and try and follow it." Well, we had a wonderful gab all the way from the waterfront to downtown, parted ways with expressions of esteem and went on our ways rejoicing. So, um, in Brit-land... how many syllables in "Salisbury Steak?" Fried bread around here usually means Navajo fried bread, like a puffy tortilla, on which other goodies are spread, either savory or sweet. If it's a slice of bread dipped in egg beaten in milk, it's French toast. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	My British grandparents came to America in 1952 to live with us and I was mostly raised by them when my mom went back to work in Manhatten. I was always taught to say "I have to spend a penny" when I had to pee. Seems that this was the cost in the coin toilets in the UK and well brought up people would never say anything so crude as "I have to make pee pee"

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