Weetabix

[birdandbear]

Hey, guess what I found in the local Kroger the other day??

I had no idea this stuff really existed - I thought it was made up Buffy food. But apparently, you Brits have had this stuff around for ages.....and oddly enough, it's good! I've tried it with honey drizzled on top, (good, but a little dry) and with milk and sugar, like cereal (much better.) And apparently it, like Tang, was originally developed for astronauts......compact, loaded with healthy goodness, and versatile!

And speaking of weird English food, I went to a lovely little pub I'd never been to before last night, and had......Shepperd's Pie! And oh wow, YUM!!!

(I wanted to try the Bangers and Mash, but the waitress came back and said that all the blood sausages were frozen.... Oh well, now I know where this place is, and can try them later... )

[The Leper Fairy]

I wanted to try the Bangers and Mash, but the waitress came back and said that all the blood sausages were frozen....

That is the most unappetizing thing I've ever heard. *pukes*

I've never heard of Weetabix... I don't think there's any for 1,000 mile radius either... if not farther.

[CovenantJr]

Weetabix is definitely best with milk and sugar. According to the Weetabix website, it's been around for 70 years, so I'm not sure about the astronaut connection.

Blood sausage? I assume that's the American name for black pudding. In any case, it has no connection at all to bangers and mash. Bangers and mash uses actual sausages, not sausage-shaped lumps of solidified blood.

[Edge]

Weetabix (or Weetbix as it's known here) is great either with milk & sugar, or spread with butter & Bovril.

And CJr is quite right; blood sausages have absolutely nothing to do with bangers & mash - they're actually a German 'delicacy'. Bangers & mash is made with regular pork sausages.

[birdandbear]

The astronaut thing was a joke, silly....

And blood sausages are a (German, I take it? ) kind of sausage. I don't think it means real blood... I might have to reconsider if it does...
But anyway, the menu said it was made with blood sausage, and it was their version of bangers and mash..... Maybe they decided to get creative with it?

[CovenantJr]

I assumed "blood sausage" referred to the sausages made out of blood and breadcrumbs, that we Brits call black pudding. If so, you should run away from it. It's vile.

[Edge]

Blood sausage is similar to black pudding. It's a sausage made from pigs' blood.

Yep... vile. I think it's the food of despite.

[CovenantJr]

Yes, definitely the food of Despite. If Lord Foul was edible, that's what he'd be.

[The Leper Fairy]

sausage-shaped lumps of solidified blood.

*hurk*

[CovenantJr]

You don't need to tell me that, I've eaten it

[The Leper Fairy]

You poor, poor boy.

[birdandbear]

Oh, I forgot to mention - I did go back to Sherlock's the other night, and it turned out that the "blood sausage" was just my ignorant dufus of a friend talkin out his , and nowhere on the menu did it say any such thing. The Bangers and Mash were made with plain ol' sausage links. So I ordered them, and they were yummy!! They were 3 links, each accompanied by it's own little mound of garlic mashed potatos, and a little tureen of brown gravy. You cut off a bite of banger, dip it in the mash, and then in the gravy.....yum!! And the rest of the plate is smothered in baked beans....

I also had a sausage roll thingy served with hot (I mean really hot! ) mustard, and pickle which was also yummy.....

Between the two items though, there was enough food to feed all four people at my table.....

[CovenantJr]

Ah, normal bangers and mash...that's a relief. Not sure about the sausage roll/mustard combo though And baked beans? With bangers and mash? Clearly the essence of the dish was lost in the translation...

[Nathan]

when dealing with foreign cuisine people tend to put everything together.

Froglegs and croissants? We find it only as weird as froglegs on their own, but Frenchies would probably faint at the mere prospect

[CovenantJr]

[The Dreaming]

Man, you would think that the ancient and wise source of our esteemable culture would have better food. Crazy Brits. Putting all those vouwles in the wroung plauces.

[Infelice]

They are good with jam (or jelly as the americans like to call it ) spread on them too.

We have an equivalent here called Vitabrits.

[Nathan]

Putting all those vouwles in the wroung plauces.

Hey, we already had the English language before you Yanks came along and bastardised it.
I can't see any reason for all the simplifications (plough changed to plow? Snow plow? Ridiculous!) except to make it easy enough for you to understand. Crazy Yanks...

[Avatar]

Is phonetic spelling a sign of the overall "dumbing-down" of the world?

Oh Yeah, I hate weetabix.

[The Dreaming]

Is phonetic spelling a sign of the overall "dumbing-down" of the world?

I don't really think so, After all, Colour is more phonetically correct for your dialect than for ours. Any written language with a phonetic base will alter as the dialect of the people who write in it change.

Language structure is usually the last thing to change in any culture. The dumbing down of society happens when a languages vocabulary begins to contract. But rejecting phonetic spelling is kind of unnecessary.

Anyway, I would try to save this post by giving an on-topic response right about here, but I have no stinking Idea what weetabix is.

I would also like to point out that the Brits bastardized English long before we did. If I am not mistaken, there are over 5 languages that went in to spawning modern English. Latin, German, Cornish, Gaelic, Welsh, Saxon, to name a few. The English language already is a bastard language, but that is why it is so flexible.