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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]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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[info]singe
2007-09-25 12:47 pm UTC (link)
*sporfle!*

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(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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[info]rimrunner
2007-09-26 03:17 am UTC (link)
They're from the same general region, so maybe.

Also, Wikipedia Pete says that the largest per capita consumption of potatoes is in Germany. The more you know!

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