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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-09-24 14:43:00
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Entry tags:frosting, icing, it is not a waste of butter and sugar, uk

If I knew you were wanking, I'd have iced a cake
Over in [info]hp_britglish, schemingreader makes the mistake of asking what the stuff you spread on top of a cake is called. Hint: It ain't "frosting".

[info]oncelikeshari thinks that butter icing is evil and wrong and should be stopped, or that it doesn't exist. I'm not entirely sure.

Either way, I want cake. :(

Short, but sweet.


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[info]onaga
2007-09-24 08:30 pm UTC (link)
From queen wanker [info]oncelikeshari:

The potato is typically British while not being indigenous to this country.

...it is?

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[info]shaysdays
2007-09-24 08:44 pm UTC (link)
I have a wonderful mental image of a field full of Irishmen bellowing, "You can take our (northern) land, but you'll never take- our poooootaaaato!"

I would say it's fairly typical British fare- it's the "chips" in "fish and."

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-09-24 08:48 pm UTC (link)
I have a wonderful mental image of a field full of Irishmen bellowing, "You can take our (northern) land, but you'll never take- our poooootaaaato!"

Potatoes were actually an import from the Americas. It got brought over to Europe as "cheap peasant food," something that the peasants could grow in their little plot because it took little effort to cultivate -- so the landlords only had to give them a couple weeks in spring to plant them and a couple weeks in fall to harvest them, and then get them all summer to work in the big fancy fields harvesting the fancy crops for them.

But yeah. :-)

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[info]gynocrat
2007-09-24 09:53 pm UTC (link)
I only know what you just said is true because...
I saw it on Blackadder II.

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[info]singe
2007-09-25 04:02 am UTC (link)
..wherein they tried to snort them. (I love that show.)

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[info]darkrose
2007-09-25 06:28 am UTC (link)
Next thing you know, we'll be eating them!

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-09-25 12:47 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2007-09-25 12:59 pm UTC (link)
"Potato?"
"Thanks, I don't."

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[info]visp
2010-03-29 02:30 am UTC (link)
This.

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[info]shaysdays
2007-09-25 12:03 am UTC (link)
I was speaking more to the 'typical' than the 'indigenous.' :)

And yes- both food items which cause various parties to consider dissolving their relationship based on their inability to pronounce things in the same manner* are of American origin... I always wondered if that's why they sound alike.

(*You know... I say tomato, you say tomah-to...?)

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(Anonymous)
2007-09-25 01:00 pm UTC (link)
It makes sense, especially if they're english-language-based corruptions of indigenous names.

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(no subject) - [info]rimrunner, 2007-09-26 03:17 am UTC

[info]shakeandbake
2007-09-24 11:08 pm UTC (link)
I am laughing so hard at your icon. I'm twelve years old deep down. Carry on.

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[info]shaysdays
2007-09-25 12:04 am UTC (link)
I do so love Stucky McPooperson.

Which is what I named the cat just now, for your amusement.

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CORNED BEEF + CABBAGE - POTATOES = FAMINE
[info]darkrose
2007-09-25 06:35 am UTC (link)
"But when you're drinking your green Guinness
Remember those who died:
Corned beef and cabbage,
No potatoes on the side."

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-09-24 08:45 pm UTC (link)
I can sort of see what she means... Potatoes are an ingredient in several British dishes, or are a common side dish as opposed to, say, rice or pasta. Maybe not "typically British" in the stereotypical "Yorkshire pudding and tea and Big Ben and tally-ho, old chap" sense, but -- you see potatoes a lot. And the potato was indeed first grown in the Americas.

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[info]fresco_le_raye
2007-09-24 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Sir Walter Raleigh, and all that!

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[info]scarah2
2007-09-24 10:31 pm UTC (link)
I just the other day saw some related mini-micro Top Chef wankery. Except it was France. The contestants had to prepare a dish highlighting chicken, potatoes and onions to be judged by the French Culinary Institute, and the objection was something like "zomg potatoes aren't FRENCH they've only been there 200 years!"

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[info]tangentialone
2007-09-25 03:32 am UTC (link)
Well, I don't think tomatoes are actually Italian either, but... :B

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[info]scarah2
2007-09-25 03:45 am UTC (link)
Correct. But the US has only had hamburgers, hot dogs, and apple pie for half the time of potatoes in France, and around the same as the tomato in Italy.

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(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-09-25 04:04 am UTC

[info]onaga
2007-09-25 03:06 am UTC (link)
Well, but they're also an ingredient in a lot of French dishes and a lot of Spanish cooking and a bunch of other cuisines. I feel like the potato is global at this point.

..."Global Potato" would be an awesome band name.

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OT
[info]eso_si_que
2007-09-25 04:25 am UTC (link)
Iconzicons wins at life Y/Y?

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Re: OT
[info]doomsday
2007-09-25 05:24 am UTC (link)
MFY

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Re: OT - [info]dez_chan, 2007-09-26 06:21 am UTC
Re: OT
[info]eilisliana
2007-09-25 08:21 am UTC (link)
Uh Yea!

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Re: OT
[info]onaga
2007-09-25 01:17 pm UTC (link)
YYYYY! I snagged a bunch of the Little Mermaid ones and will probably grab more. :D

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[info]onaga
2007-09-25 03:10 am UTC (link)
Uh sorry for flooding your inbox like that, Gmail went haywire with the email reply option. D:

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[info]azazello
2007-09-24 09:53 pm UTC (link)
Wut?

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