All things English/American

Originally Posted by StillettoDoll

Ok when are they?

Google is your friend...Just look up the big city names and Pride.

Manchester is always August Bank Holiday weekend.

Blackpool - my small home town pride is late this year and is the second weekend in June and it's held here
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=blackpool+north+pier&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=IDs&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&prmd=ivnsm&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=P0j ITbaVDMrA8QOwyen2Bw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2 &ved=0CBgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1421&bih=832
The Fag Father and I are doing something special for this year's Pride...I'm sure I'll post a picture or two.

[StillettoDoll]

Originally Posted by apocalipstic

Would love to attend Pride in the UK!

Yes I think that would be fun. I wanna go..

Originally Posted by StillettoDoll

Yes I think that would be fun. I wanna go..

Brighton Pride is the one many rave about. It's a south coast gay/Queer (for those of us too grumpy to be 'gay') mecca.

[Merlin]

You should come =]

[Merlin]

do Americans drink tea ??

[StillettoDoll]

Originally Posted by Merlin

do Americans drink tea ??

Yes we do , But I think we drink it differently. Personally I drink tea by the gallon! I make Strawberry tea, no sugar, on ice. Sometimes earl grey and ginger peach.

[Gayla]

Originally Posted by Merlin

do Americans drink tea ??

Yes! Although I think iced tea would probably show as more popular than hot tea in most places. When I stopped doing caffeine a few years back, I switched to herbal tea then when I decided that not doing caffeine was silly, I switched to just plain hot tea. I drink the occasional cup of coffee now but my warm drink of choice now is usually a mug of hot tea. Nothing fancy, it's usually just Liptons because that's what we keep on hand to use for iced tea.

Do the English drink coffee?

Originally Posted by gayla

Yes! Although I think iced tea would probably show as more popular than hot tea in most places. When I stopped doing caffeine a few years back, I switched to herbal tea then when I decided that not doing caffeine was silly, I switched to just plain hot tea. I drink the occasional cup of coffee now but my warm drink of choice now is usually a mug of hot tea. Nothing fancy, it's usually just Liptons because that's what we keep on hand to use for iced tea.

Do the English drink coffee?

Yup we do...we have a real coffee culture going on here. I use an either an Italian stove top pot or a French press for making coffee at home but nothing beats going to my fave independent coffee shop and having a tall machiato or a double mach (if I need to wake up). However, I personally drink more tea than coffee nowadays.


Do 'mericans eat Marmite?

[Merlin]

We seem to drink more tea than coffee.

In time of crisis us Brits always put the kettle on .. Tea solves everything lol.

[Merlin]

Yuck to marmite*speets*

Originally Posted by Merlin

Yuck to marmite*speets*

Ya poof! Marmite puts 'airs on yer chest man!

[Merlin]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Ya poof! Marmite puts 'airs on yer chest man!

Ha .. Don't need em .. Butch enough =p

[Merlin]

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

[Sparkle]

Originally Posted by Merlin

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

I make a goooood sunday roast, my former mother-in-law taught me how to disguise the parsnips as roast potatoes too.

I'm not fan of milky tea, and I detest instant coffee...but I managed just fine in blighty.

[StillettoDoll]

Originally Posted by Merlin

Have any of you americans had a fry up or a Sunday dinner ??

Not anymore! frying is bad for you .
But Sunday fried chicken yum. Use to too make that alot, with mashed potatoes.

Originally Posted by Sparkle

I make a goooood sunday roast, my former mother-in-law taught me how to disguise the parsnips as roast potatoes too.

I'm not fan of milky tea, and I detest instant coffee...but I managed just fine in blighty.

Roast parsnips are yum and a must with Sunday lunch.


Now here we get what I think is a funny usage of UK English...

Do you 'mericans (to include all the races and nationalities who inhabit North America where this website is based) have dinner at lunch-time and tea at dinner time? Or is it always lunch in the middle of the day and dinner or supper at the end of the day?

Merlin I bet you have dinner and tea don't ya? I do at home but with Un-Mrs.I we have lunch and dinner.

How about you other Brits here too?

[Bit]

What's a "fry up"?

Formal Sunday dinner here used to be almost a cultural icon, but I think most people today probably are more casual.

Marmite sounds rather... um... powerful.

I've been enjoying the thread; thank you for starting it, Merlin.

[Bit]

Originally Posted by Incubus

Do you 'mericans (to include all the races and nationalities who inhabit North America where this website is based) have dinner at lunch-time and tea at dinner time? Or is it always lunch in the middle of the day and dinner or supper at the end of the day?

I grew up always having lunch in the middle of the day, supper as the evening meal, and "dinner" only when it was formal--like the lunchtime "Sunday dinner." Tea time, as I understand it, is earlier than supper time; supper was always after work, so anywhere between 5:30 and 7 p.m.

[Gayla]

I don't know what a fry up is either.

Growing up, in a rural/farming community in Texas, the midday meal was called dinner and the evening meal was called supper. Dinner was usually a larger meal and, during certain times of the year was packed up and taken to the field so that everyone could eat together. Supper was usually smaller but was still usually something fried.

Originally Posted by Bit

I grew up always having lunch in the middle of the day, supper as the evening meal, and "dinner" only when it was formal--like the lunchtime "Sunday dinner." Tea time, as I understand it, is earlier than supper time; supper was always after work, so anywhere between 5:30 and 7 p.m.

Yes and that's how it traditionally is here but also traditionally because it's been that way for generations, working class northerners have had dinner in the middle of the day and tea (meaning dinner) later in the day after work. Must just be a Brit thing huh?

translation...Fry up (UK English: verb, adverb) a selection of fried food such as; bacon, sausage, eggs, mushrooms, black pudding et al...often accompanied with *shudders* Heinz baked beans and tinned plum or fried tomato (I'll pass on the tomato-y stuff ta ever so ) ......usually served with toast and lashings of tea.