Why do I do that?

[charee]

ken i recken start a new one its a great topic

[Ken Shelmerdine]

OK here goes, look in the off topic message board in a few minutes.

[monrein]

Diapers are nappies in Britain I bet.  We called them that in Jamaica.  Here in Canada my mother in law calls a very very small bowl a nappy.

[kellyt]

Thank you Twirl Kitkatz and Monrein and Bajanne for your explanation. I thought I knew all the differences in names that we have for the same things both here and across the pond but I didn't know that. Maybe we should start a thread where we name something and someone has to reply with the equivalent name either British American Canadian or Aussie. For instance do you know what baby's diapers are called in the UK?This question is for non Brits only.

You say like scones. YOU PUT SAUSAGE GRAVY ON SCONES?? 

In the South biscuits are absolutely NOTHING like scones (again, unless you over cook them and they become hard like a rock).

[monrein]

Don't know what kind of scones you've had Kelly but they are usually very much like a tea biscuit.  They do differ slightly from baker to baker but in general terms they're much more similar than different in my somewhat limited experience.  Well, mind you I've been out for quite a number of "English Teas" in my time and my grandmother in Jamaica always had tea with scones or biscuits (cookies as we call them) served promtly at 4 o'clock.

Here's a link with a picture.

http://www.joyofbaking.com/scones.html

[twirl]

at HEB a scone looks like a puffy triangle and there is nothing on top
usually made with blueberries  or  cinnamon
they do not look like the one monrien posted------ hers look better
not only at HEB but at bakeries and other stores- they look like triangles

[monrein]

The scones don't come with the clotted cream and jam on top though.  You add that if you want (I always want but I go very easy on the clotted cream which is delicious).
Watercress and cucumber (separate, not together) sandwiches followed by a nice scone all washed down with some lovely loose Earl Grey or Darjeeling Oolong tea.  I could do that every day.

[twirl]

clotted cream would be something we would not eat------- left in the fridge too long
I like Earl Grey tea
Darjeeling Oolong tea sounds like a video game villian's name

[kellyt]

Monrein,  your photo looks very much like a biscuit.

Sorry.   I've never heard the two compared.      Twirl and Donnia can back me up on that.   







Darn, now I want buttermilk biscuits with gravy!!!!!!!!!!!

[G-Ma]

ohhh drool....clotted cream......my grandmother used to put it on everything...dad would eat it on bread with jam...yes I grew up so deprived...NOT...poor perhaps but never deprived.

 

[monrein]

http://www.joyofbaking.com/DevonshireCream.html

Oh Twirl, it's not sour milk, it's heavenly decadence.  I enclose a picture.  Now, it's not a renal friendly thing I'm sure, but delicious, yes indeed.

[TynyWonder]

Monrein,  your photo looks very much like a biscuit.

Sorry.   I've never heard the two compared.      Twirl and Donnia can back me up on that.   

Darn, now I want buttermilk biscuits with gravy!!!!!!!!!!!

Kelly, I agree the scone did look like a biscuit!!!!  I have lived in the south all my life.   (use to live in Alabama now live in Tennessee)   I am also like you, I want some dang buttermilk biscuits-n-gravy now!!!   

http://www.joyofbaking.com/DevonshireCream.html

Monrein, that cream looks like butter to me.........

[kimcanada]

monrein  that looks sooooooooooooooooooooooo good!

[kitkatz]

Just to get us back on topic....


Why do I hate bones in my chicken?

[twirl]

b/c if you buy your chicken by the lb you pay for something you can not eat
and you should not give to any of your pets
when I pay for something I want to eat all of it
bones are too crunchy
unless it is the foot of a chicken

[G-Ma]

       blech..foot of a chicken...my mother used to eat those.....blech.

[TynyWonder]

Why do I hate the sound of people clipping their fingernails or toenails? 

[twirl]

I do not know, TynyW, but I hate it too
my husband was clicking his fingernails when the doc told us our unborn daughter was going to be etremely ill when born
and I yelled at him to STOP IT, right in front of the doctor I yelled at him
but no cuss words, at least not at that time

why did I tell my husband I could lose weight before he quit smoking and that was 20 years ago and he quit smoking and I'm still fat

[TynyWonder]

aaawwww twirl!!  U R A TRIP!!!   

Why do I also hate it when someone pulls their chewing gum in & out of their mouth & plays with it??!!!   

[twirl]

why did I get sick when my junior high students would take gum out of their mouth and pass it to another student
that happened in a literature class I was teaching
I started gagging so hard
I had to leave the room
my students were like
what, why would that gag you

[G-Ma]

      

[TynyWonder]

That is  twirl!!!!

[kitkatz]

Why do I gross out at the things the sixth and seventh graders do?  Such as snotty noses and coughs on me.  Wiping noses on sleeves.  Slurping snot back into their noses.  Sneezing towards me. 

[twirl]

oh thanks for that graphic description
 
I can see it all in my head
 

a couple of years ago my Texas history was outside collecting things to make an Indian village and one of my students ate fireants
- I gagged and threw up
he said they were spicy
and students trading ABC gum ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and spitting and dipping and spitting dip ohhhhhhhhhhh

[Romona]

I can not stand tiny onions in my spaghetti sauce. If I am eating spaghetti I drain the sauce to get the onions out. But the weird thing is I can eat the sauce with out straining it if it is lasagna.