Confusing cultural conundrums

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    mert wrote:
    Tad late, but I'm bored, and better late than never, eh? I always love topics like this...

    Hockey is hockey; it was created in Canada, so I think we should get to decide what it's called. ;) It is a game in English, but "un match" en francais... And it is the best sport going - a perfect combination of skill, grace, brutality and plain toughness.

    Other Canadianisms:
    - tuque is a wool hat that keeps your head warm;
    - we call coloured pencils "pencil crayons" because we have English and French on all of our packaging (so it reads "coloured pencils crayons de couleur"
    - two-four is a case of twenty-four beer


    :D hehe! Created in Canada hey? Ice hockey right? ;)

    The others are cool. Very cool. :)

    We call wool hats beanies.
    Coloured pencils are coloured pencils and crayons are crayons
    and a two-four case or 24 case is called a slab. :)
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    jelly please

    not jello ;):D
    wah
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    illegal pants wrote:
    jelly please

    not jello ;):D


    :D Yeah, and JAM not jelly! ;)
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  • pearljamjen
    pearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    illegal pants wrote:
    jelly please

    not jello ;):D


    Are you British or something? :p

    TAKE A SIDE! :p I noticed for some things, you say the American words, and others, you use British English...interesting. :p
  • pearljamjen
    pearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Yeah, and JAM not jelly! ;)

    Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

    * In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice.
    * In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result).
    * In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

    Pectin is an undigestible carbohydrate (fiber). It is found in the cell walls of most fruit. When heated with sugar in water, it gels, giving jam, jelly and preserves their thickness.

    Jell-O is entirely different. It is made from gelatin, which is a protein made from animal skins and bones.

    I eat jelly and jam but no Jell-O!
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Jeanie wrote:
    ha! :D No, here shrimp are teeny little things that look like fat maggots :eek: and they add absolutely nothing to pizza. Actually what we call shrimp here I simply cannot for the life of me work out why anybody would want to eat them in the first place. That's why whenever I hear people say shrimp I think of them ugly, teeny, pasty little maggot type things and ewwwwww!!!!

    http://oddsnsods.camio.co.uk/node/6

    In WA state, you find us referring to shrimp when they are maggot sized and when they are just under prawn sized. Good luck figuring it all out. ;)
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  • you are
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    pearljamjen wrote:
    Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

    * In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice.
    * In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result).
    * In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

    Pectin is an undigestible carbohydrate (fiber). It is found in the cell walls of most fruit. When heated with sugar in water, it gels, giving jam, jelly and preserves their thickness.

    Jell-O is entirely different. It is made from gelatin, which is a protein made from animal skins and bones.

    I eat jelly and jam but no Jell-O!

    me either! :eek: when i found out in grade school that it was made from animal bones......i haven't been able to eat jell-o since! yuck!
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    pearljamjen wrote:
    Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

    * In jelly, the fruit comes in the form of fruit juice.
    * In jam, the fruit comes in the form of fruit pulp or crushed fruit (and is less stiff than jelly as a result).
    * In preserves, the fruit comes in the form of chunks in a syrup or a jam.

    Pectin is an undigestible carbohydrate (fiber). It is found in the cell walls of most fruit. When heated with sugar in water, it gels, giving jam, jelly and preserves their thickness.

    Jell-O is entirely different. It is made from gelatin, which is a protein made from animal skins and bones.

    I eat jelly and jam but no Jell-O!

    :D I am aware of the difference love, but thanks though. :) I just find it interesting that for a few years there Americans would say jelly, referring to a type of preserved fruit instead of jam. We don't use the word jelly here really for anything other than the wobbly stuff that goes good with ice cream or for mint jelly on your lamb roast. :)

    Oh and there is a vegetable derived gelatin with no animal products, if you're looking. :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agar

    http://www.thefoodcoach.com.au/food.asp?Action=View&FoodID=444
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    In WA state, you find us referring to shrimp when they are maggot sized and when they are just under prawn sized. Good luck figuring it all out. ;)


    :D Yeah, you guys in WA state sound normal! ;):D

    Not gonna matter too much what they're called, I'm just going to ask what size they are before I order and then I couldn't care less if they are called space monkeys! :D
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Yeah, you guys in WA state sound normal! ;):D

    Not gonna matter too much what they're called, I'm just going to ask what size they are before I order and then I couldn't care less if they are called space monkeys! :D

    We sent all of the weird people to Oregon, mostly Portland and Eugene.

    Check out this donut shop in Portland: http://voodoodoughnut.com/menu.html :D
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Yeah, you guys in WA state sound normal! ;):D

    Not gonna matter too much what they're called, I'm just going to ask what size they are before I order and then I couldn't care less if they are called space monkeys! :D
    I don't think I could bring myself to eat something called space monkeys, even if they were just shrump by another name. I'd just keep thinking some excellent monkeys (not that any monkeys aren't excellent) floating around space in astronaut suits, picking at the surface of the moon, and doing hilarious monkey stuff. And there's no way I could eat those guys. :(
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    We sent all of the weird people to Oregon, mostly Portland and Eugene.

    Check out this donut shop in Portland: http://voodoodoughnut.com/menu.html :D

    :eek: The third pic down on the left????????

    That's not a chocolate donut with crispy bacon on top is it???????? :eek:
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I don't think I could bring myself to eat something called space monkeys, even if they were just shrump by another name. I'd just keep thinking some excellent monkeys (not that any monkeys aren't excellent) floating around space in astronaut suits, picking at the surface of the moon, and doing hilarious monkey stuff. And there's no way I could eat those guys. :(


    haha! :D The ONLY time that I struggled to eat something based on it's name was when I was at Dracula's, a theatre restaurant here, and the first course of the meal was a potato and leek soup they called Puppy Vomit. :eek:
    It still makes me shudder now just thinking about it!!! :eek:

    Otherwise, I'm good to go!!! :D
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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    my mum is now my mom
    my jumper is now my sweater
    fuel is now gas
    prawns are now shrimps
    the date is back to front
    and where i used to spell a word with an 's' in it, more than often i now i use a 'z'

    but, it's all good :)

    My MUM will ALWAYS be MUM! :D I have friends over here who flatly refuse to ever be called Mom.

    As for the others, I've been brain washed... errrr... programmed... errr... talk around to the NA way of saying things...

    Jumper now sounds so weird to me, cause I actually start picturing what people in NA picture and then I giggle.

    Prawns will always be prawns... this jumbo shrimp thing is just ludicrous! It's a king bloody prawn mate!

    And some others:

    Note is now a bill (money)
    Footpath is now sidewalk
    Hire is now rent
    Ring is now call (for phones)
    Mobile is now cell
    Lift is now elevator
    Engaged is now busy (phones)
    Bonnet is now hood (car)
    Boot is now trunk (car)
    Toilet/dunny/loo/bog/shitter/crapper/lavvy etc became washroom (Canada)
    Washroom became restroom (US)

    I'm still battling the whole "replacing 's' with a 'z'" thing but the one I have the most problem with is removing the 'u'! And, 4.5 years later the date thing still confounds me! I have a good English friend here and I witnessed her berating an American about it one day... "days go into months, months go into years just as seconds go into minutes and minutes go into hours... IT BUILDS IN A LOGICAL WAY!!!" LOL.

    OH! The other thing I've noticed over here... they remove the second "L" in words like "travelling" but then they add an extra one to the end of words like "enrol". I laughed one day and said: "It's like they have these excess "L's" and they don't know what to do with them, so they shove them at the end of words like 'enrol'", it makes me giggle.

    BTW, after 3.5 years in Canada... "hockey" is very definitely played on ice. Baseball, however, is cricket on valium but still fun ;)
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Jeanie wrote:
    haha! :D The ONLY time that I struggled to eat something based on it's name was when I was at Dracula's, a theatre restaurant here, and the first course of the meal was a potato and leek soup they called Puppy Vomit. :eek:
    It still makes me shudder now just thinking about it!!! :eek:

    Otherwise, I'm good to go!!! :D
    I struggled to drink a shot called the "Cowboy Hand Job", but that's about it. :p I should stop going to that gay bar.
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  • Urban Hiker
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    Jeanie wrote:
    :eek: The third pic down on the left????????

    That's not a chocolate donut with crispy bacon on top is it???????? :eek:

    It is a maple donut with bacon on top. Anthony Bourdain became addicted to those during his trip there. :p
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  • Urban Hiker
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    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I struggled to drink a shot called the "Cowboy Hand Job", but that's about it. :p I should stop going to that gay bar.


    I thought drinking a 'Duck Fart' was bad.

    I'm near the 'gay' neighborhood of town. I wonder what I'll get if I ask for a 'Cowboy Hand Job'.

    I'm so going to be giving that a try. :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I struggled to drink a shot called the "Cowboy Hand Job", but that's about it. :p I should stop going to that gay bar.


    haha!! I once got very excited about trying something called a Diamantina Cocktail because it sounded so pretty. Then I read the ingredients. :eek:
    Won't be having one of those anytime soon.

    You gotta keep living it up large. Gay bars are awesome fun!! :D
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
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    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I thought drinking a 'Duck Fart' was bad.

    I'm near the 'gay' neighborhood of town. I wonder what I'll get if I ask for a 'Cowboy Hand Job'.

    I'm so going to be giving that a try. :D
    Amusingly, I made one part of that story up, and it wasn't the name of the drink. :p I got that in a regular nightclub.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
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    Jeanie wrote:
    haha!! I once got very excited about trying something called a Diamantina Cocktail because it sounded so pretty. Then I read the ingredients. :eek:
    Won't be having one of those anytime soon.

    You gotta keep living it up large. Gay bars are awesome fun!! :D
    Well, what was in it? :D
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