– fast food chains that sell only jacket potatoes (i.e. baked potatoes).
– Crisp (i.e. potato chips) flavours like rosemary chicken, oriental rib, peppered rib eye steak, honey-glazes ham or mango chutney.
– swan roadkill.
– a bicycle crossing across a national 4-lane highway where the speed limit is 70 mph. (Katy quote: it's not recommended, but you'd be surprised by how many people do it).
– Traditional foodstuffs like toad in thw hole (sausages in yorkshire pudding – actually really good), spotted dick (suet pudding with currants), mushy peas (green peas, well, mushed).
– really BIG keys.
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Toad in thw hole?
Dood, use ur spelchek
Hehehe.
*in shit disturber mode*
Love ya.
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BIG KEYS!
*minor swoon*
ROSEMARY CHICKEN CHIPS!
*bigger swoon!*
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bite me.
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those crisps are a typical “travel food” for me… when i'm in the UK, i love vinegar-flavoured crisps – when i take a packet home with me, they usually end up in the garbage bin..
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still, those are less than common where I come from :)
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you'd love my house keys. wait until I have my laptop setup and I'll email you a picture.
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well, here we get “normal” crisps, pepper/chili-flavoured ones, cheese & onion and ketchup. cheese & onion and ketchup aren't exactly common, though.
so, yes, major case of “WTF” when i first came to the uk…
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*bites*
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I lurve the steak ones… damn us for not having tasty crisps… or flake… or penguins!
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penguins = nice!
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The jokes on the back of them used to be so much better.. now they are just lame.
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bah, they still taste nice :)
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I wish we still had an M&S here.
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Cyclists in Cambridge are crazy. I don't cycle anymore, I walk, I'm not insane enough.
There's a jacket potato place in the market. I take it you haven't come across the marmite-flavoured crisps yet? I've had curry-flavoured as well.
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marmite flavoured?
…
*head goes boom*
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http://www.englishteastore.com/mcbi.html
You can get tons of brit food by mail order :)
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Ooooh, I'll have to check it out.
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Marmite flavoured… blecchhh.
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What the hell is a marmite?
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you do not want to know this.
marmite is evil.
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From google: Marmite is a dark-brown coloured savoury spread made from the yeast extract a by-product of the brewing industry. It has a strong, slightly salty flavour. You either “love it or hate it”. Can be eaten spread thinly on toast
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Marmite is roofing tar that has been packaged for consumption in hopes that people will actually believe that they need yeast extract in their diets.
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yep.
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apparently it's really healthy, though…
Dan brought some over when he came to visit. I neither loved nor hated it (!!!), but my brother adored the stuff…
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So excalty like Creton, but completly different.
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Thanks. I thought it was a fish for some reason.
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Nope, but I'd rather eat 4 day old sushi.
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Now that's a kind of bad I can relate to!
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When I was in the UK I rented a room where you to put quarters in the heater.
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*head goes boom again*
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cretons are mince pork and are quite tasty, if fat.
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yes, that#s an original one.
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and who might you be?
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Hence, exactly the same, but completly different. Ah nevermind.
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Here in Montreal we had (a long time ago) Pizza, Buffalo Chicken Wings and Mashed Patatoes with gravy flavored chips (crisp), but it was so awful that it didn't survive.
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never heard of them
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We don't have quarters in the UK.
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Well the Pizza and Mashed Potatoes with gravy flavored chips existed about two weeks when I was in high-school (almost 20 years ago), there was also Poutine flavored chips at that time (also disgusting). As for the Buffalo Chicken Wings flavored chips, they existed again for about two weeks when I was at the U (8 years ago). Now I don't even try the new “flavors”, I just stick with Salt and Vinegar.
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I wish I could find a garlic-free BBQ chip.
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Since I've learned that you were allergic to garlic, I started to look at the ingredients list on every thing I eat to see if there is traces of the vampire protecting bulb and I must admit that I feel your pain.
It sucks big hairy ass :-(
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it does.
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