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Post by lauradrumm on Aug 15, 2019 17:52:52 GMT
We even have a glass in our crystal sets that are called cordials and are meant for drinking cordials. I always thought that came from the Irish/British since Waterford Crystal is from Ireland
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Post by lauradrumm on Aug 15, 2019 17:53:56 GMT
Icy pole-the thing Flick sticks his tongue on😁
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Post by gar on Aug 15, 2019 18:57:03 GMT
Now I want tea. I have a friend here who’s from the UK, although she’s been here for years and is a citizen now. Just listening to her speak makes me want tea. Thanks for the link. I love this entire topic. And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Tea, as far as a meal is concerned, means a lighter meal in the evening.
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Post by Linda on Aug 15, 2019 20:16:05 GMT
As an Aussie living in Texas Fairy Floss is my favourite!! I love that stuff anyway & love asking for a bag of it at the state fair. When I first moved to the States my American family wanted to hear me speak “Australian” all the time. They just thought it was fantastic how we have the same words with different meanings. 1. Fairy Floss= cotton candy 2. Thongs= flip flops 3. Rubber=pencil eraser I learnt VERY quickly when I moved to the States in 4th grade not to ask for a rubber but to remember to ask for an eraser instead. Rubber has quite a different meaning in America much to the amusement of my peers (and my horror).
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Post by Jockscrap on Aug 15, 2019 21:03:20 GMT
Now I want tea. I have a friend here who’s from the UK, although she’s been here for years and is a citizen now. Just listening to her speak makes me want tea. Thanks for the link. I love this entire topic. And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Yes - I drink tea all day long, but I eat my tea at tea time (early evening). A former neighbour from the US used to confuse me and the other neighbours when she invited us for tea (we would say that when having someone over for an informal early evening meal, eg when your kids have someone over to play after school and they come for tea too), but she was actually asking us over for coffee ie, visiting for a chat and a cup of coffee or tea and a biscuit or bit of cake. In the UK you go to someone’s house for coffee even if you’re going to be drinking tea!
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Post by Jockscrap on Aug 15, 2019 21:06:40 GMT
And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Tea, as far as a meal is concerned, means a lighter meal in the evening. Nothing light about tea in our house . And we never have dinner. Unless it’s having friends over for something a bit more fancy than normal with a nicely set table and the crystal glasses, in which case it’s a dinner party (I can count on two hands how many of those I’ve hosted in the last thirty years). And Christmas dinner.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 15, 2019 21:14:49 GMT
Now I want tea. I have a friend here who’s from the UK, although she’s been here for years and is a citizen now. Just listening to her speak makes me want tea. Thanks for the link. I love this entire topic. And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Yup. I was brought up to eat breakfast, dinner and tea. Dinner-time (and Christmas dinner) was 1pm, and tea-time was about 6pm. As I grew up I found that other people had breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Post by gar on Aug 15, 2019 22:25:57 GMT
Tea, as far as a meal is concerned, means a lighter meal in the evening. Nothing light about tea in our house . And we never have dinner. Unless it’s having friends over for something a bit more fancy than normal with a nicely set table and the crystal glasses, in which case it’s a dinner party (I can count on two hands how many of those I’ve hosted in the last thirty years). And Christmas dinner. Ok, so as Jockscrap and RedSquirrelUK will testify, tea as a meal has different interpretations 😁
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Post by lucyg on Aug 15, 2019 22:32:50 GMT
I can assure you all that every fancy hotel and department store in London is serving afternoon tea (not supper) in mid afternoon, with the little tea sandwiches and scones and such, to all the eager American tourists. Including me.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 15, 2019 23:51:28 GMT
And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Yup. I was brought up to eat breakfast, dinner and tea. Dinner-time (and Christmas dinner) was 1pm, and tea-time was about 6pm. As I grew up I found that other people had breakfast, lunch and dinner. When I was a child in the 70s, we always called the evening meal "tea". So our meals were breakfast, lunch, and tea. My Nanna still called lunch "dinner" so she had breakfast, dinner, and tea like you RedSquirrelUK. I think I stopped called the evening meal "tea" and started calling it "dinner" when I was in my 30s.
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Post by lesley on Aug 16, 2019 1:03:53 GMT
And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Yup. I was brought up to eat breakfast, dinner and tea. Dinner-time (and Christmas dinner) was 1pm, and tea-time was about 6pm. As I grew up I found that other people had breakfast, lunch and dinner. This was me too. I only started using dinner instead of tea and lunch instead of dinner when I moved into the University of Edinburgh Halls of Residence, and was surrounded by posh people!
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Post by Jockscrap on Aug 16, 2019 6:22:29 GMT
I can assure you all that every fancy hotel and department store in London is serving afternoon tea (not supper) in mid afternoon, with the little tea sandwiches and scones and such, to all the eager American tourists. Including me. Ah yes, afternoon tea is nothing akin to tea. And a Scottish high tea is nothing like an afternoon tea. It’s served early evening at tea-time - a main meal preceded by a rack of toast with butter, and followed by a plate of cakes (always including scones), served with copious amounts of tea or coffee. Going for a high tea is one of my life’s greatest pleasures.
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Post by gar on Aug 16, 2019 6:44:37 GMT
I can assure you all that every fancy hotel and department store in London is serving afternoon tea (not supper) in mid afternoon, with the little tea sandwiches and scones and such, to all the eager American tourists. Including me. Afternoon tea is different to tea, and I love it as much as you do
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Post by gillyp on Aug 16, 2019 8:06:47 GMT
Ok, just to clarify, through the day, depending on our region and up bringing we eat some combination of the following: Breakfast Elevenses Brunch Lunch Dinner Afternoon Tea Tea High Tea Dinner Supper Maybe there would be an odd snack thrown in there at various places too. I am a 12.30 lunch and 6.30 dinner gal m’self. My grandmother was an early breakfast, midday dinner, afternoon tea and supper lady. I remember her teas especially with great fondness and nostalgia. Always sandwiches and home made cake, a big pot of tea on the table for the grownups to help themselves and a saucer for tea for the dog. I was deemed too young for tea to drink and had Robinson’s barley water. I also had that at supper time (my bedtime) with another slice of cake.
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Post by JoP on Aug 16, 2019 9:18:33 GMT
And isn’t “tea” their word for dinner? Yup. I was brought up to eat breakfast, dinner and tea. Dinner-time (and Christmas dinner) was 1pm, and tea-time was about 6pm. As I grew up I found that other people had breakfast, lunch and dinner. I’m another UK pea that has breakfast, dinner and tea. I also have brunch on the weekend 😉
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Post by rahnee on Aug 18, 2019 8:27:03 GMT
I was just looking at the menu for a local restaurant and thought of another one. Entree - In the US it’s the main. Here in Australia the Entree is the Appetiser.
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Post by rahnee on Aug 18, 2019 8:27:21 GMT
I was just looking at the menu for a local restaurant and thought of another one. Entree - In the US it’s the main. Here in Australia the Entree is the Appetiser.
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Post by rahnee on Aug 18, 2019 8:28:25 GMT
I was just looking at the menu for a local restaurant and thought of another one. Entree - In the US it’s the main. Here in Australia the Entree is the Appetiser.
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Post by lucyg on Aug 19, 2019 3:04:30 GMT
I was just looking at the menu for a local restaurant and thought of another one. Entree - In the US it’s the main. Here in Australia the Entree is the Appetiser. Those of us who frequent the daily dinner thread learned that one from AussieMeg . We love what she brings to the thread. ETA if anyone else is interested in joining us in the dinner thread, we have lots of Americans, but also Canadians, Brits, at least one each Norwegian, Australian, and an Aussie living in Germany. (Who am I missing?)
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 19, 2019 5:07:47 GMT
I was just looking at the menu for a local restaurant and thought of another one. Entree - In the US it’s the main. Here in Australia the Entree is the Appetiser. Those of us who frequent the daily dinner thread learned that one from AussieMeg . Wait, what? I never knew that! Y'all must have been thinking what a greedy guts I am, whenever I say that I had two entrees for dinner!! (Which I often do instead of having a main.)
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Post by NicL on Aug 20, 2019 10:07:07 GMT
Came across another Aussie slang term today ---- "crook". I think the Brits might use it, not sure about the US
It has 2 different meanings
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2019 10:24:12 GMT
Came across another Aussie slang term today ---- "crook". I think the Brits might use it, not sure about the US It has 2 different meanings To mean unwell? Is that right? What else does it mean? I don’t use it in the UK but maybe it’s common in other areas here...?
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Post by NicL on Aug 20, 2019 10:26:56 GMT
It does mean unwell. We also use it to refer to a criminal
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Post by gillyp on Aug 20, 2019 10:31:17 GMT
Came across another Aussie slang term today ---- "crook". I think the Brits might use it, not sure about the US It has 2 different meanings To mean unwell? Is that right? What else does it mean? I don’t use it in the UK but maybe it’s common in other areas here...? I think maybe crook as unwell could be a Black Country thing. That seems to be where I picked it up “sorry you are crook” = sorry you are unwell. Alternatively - the crook stole the crook shepherd’s crook and ran off with it in the crook of his arm! is it any wonder people can’t understand English!
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Post by peasapie on Aug 20, 2019 10:45:45 GMT
As an Aussie living in Texas Fairy Floss is my favourite!! I love that stuff anyway & love asking for a bag of it at the state fair. When I first moved to the States my American family wanted to hear me speak “Australian” all the time. They just thought it was fantastic how we have the same words with different meanings. 1. Fairy Floss= cotton candy 2. Thongs= flip flops 3. Rubber=pencil eraser I learnt VERY quickly when I moved to the States in 4th grade not to ask for a rubber but to remember to ask for an eraser instead. Rubber has quite a different meaning in America much to the amusement of my peers (and my horror). Our beloved former principal would often include an admonishment during morning announcements that thongs were not allowed—which lead to lots of snickering among the students, to whom thong had an entirely different meaning.
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Post by gar on Aug 20, 2019 10:56:03 GMT
It does mean unwell. We also use it to refer to a criminal Yes, a crook is a criminal here too.
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Post by Skellinton on Aug 21, 2019 1:01:45 GMT
I thought of another one, when someone visiting from Britain (they were coaching soccer in our school field) asked to use our school bathroom they explained to me that the Port a potty was locked because, as he said, “They probably want to keep the tramps out, right?”
I couldn’t help but smile. Around here, a tramp is a loose woman, what he meant we would call either a hobo or a homeless person. I think tramp was used here in the “olden days”, but it isn’t widely used here anymore.
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