USA boycots Scotland.

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SirJosephPorter said:
VanIsle, I was able to open it with Modzilla, a very nice website. He mentioned cold beer, but he forgot to mention the Scotch. And of course, next time your doctor prescribes antibiotics to you, refuse to take them. And stop using flush toilets, use an outhouse from now on.That will really show them uppity Scots who is the master.
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Everyone seems to forget (and no I don't know the name and do not have the time to "google" it) that it was a Canadian who invented the first telephone. Bell perfected it.
SJP - the americans are supposed to be boycotting - not the canadians. (I know you are just having fun)and by the way - my G.Grandmother on my Dad's side of the family was born in Scotland.:lol:
 
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VanIsle, by you, I did not mean you personally, I was talking to a hypothetical American. And you are quite right, why should we boycott the Scots? Let Americans do it.
 
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Spade said:
I suspect he's miffed because the Scots claim haggis - an English dish representative of their haute cuisine.
Haggis was invented by the English, not the Scottish, says historian - Telegraph
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Spade, now why would anyone claim credit for inventing haggis? I would have thought nobody would want to own up to it. I did eat haggis a few times when we lived in Scotland, but personally, I prefer hamburgers.

Mind you, considering the traditional English cooking (where they boil everything for three hours), haggis would probably fit right in.
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
Spade, now why would anyone claim credit for inventing haggis? I would have thought nobody would want to own up to it. I did eat haggis a few times when we lived in Scotland, but personally, I prefer hamburgers.

Mind you, considering the traditional English cooking (where they boil everything for three hours), haggis would probably fit right in.
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If I have my usual luck - this won't work but I'll try anyway. Yummy :-( haggis!
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VanIsle said:
If I have my usual luck - this won't work but I'll try anyway. Yummy :-( haggis!
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Looks like a swollen tent caterpillar (or worse!)
When I was a child on the Prairies, English food meant Yorkshire pudding and roast beef. The few times I ate the pudding, it was covered with thin gravy, cool not hot, had the consistency of leather, and tasted of lard. Mmmmmm!
 
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Spade said:
Looks like a swollen tent caterpillar (or worse!)
When I was a child on the Prairies, English food meant Yorkshire pudding and roast beef. The few times I ate the pudding, it was covered with thin gravy, cool not hot, had the consistency of leather, and tasted of lard. Mmmmmm!
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We have Yorshire pudding and roast beef. It does not taste like lard nor does it have the consistency of leather! You better see Juan's Cooking. Good YP is soft and fluffy and tastes very good. You'll have to drop in for dinner one night.:smile:
 
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VanIsle, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding may be OK (if properly prepared), but traditional English cooking leaves a lot to be desired. There standard method of cooking anything (meat, vegetables etc.) is to boil everything for three hours (incidentally, that is how you also cook haggis, you boil it). Maybe they want to make sure they kill it thoroughly before they eat it, I don’t know. When they did fry anything, it was usually in lard (animal fat).

Mind you, that was traditional cooking, these days British cooking has improved a lot, it has become a lot more cosmopolitan.
 
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SirJosephPorter said:
VanIsle, roast beef and Yorkshire pudding may be OK (if properly prepared), but traditional English cooking leaves a lot to be desired. There standard method of cooking anything (meat, vegetables etc.) is to boil everything for three hours (incidentally, that is how you also cook haggis, you boil it). Maybe they want to make sure they kill it thoroughly before they eat it, I don’t know. When they did fry anything, it was usually in lard (animal fat).

Mind you, that was traditional cooking, these days British cooking has improved a lot, it has become a lot more cosmopolitan.
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I think you are looking for an invite to dinner also. Do you like tiramisu too?
 
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taxslave said:
That is an oxymoron.
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Okay - I looked up oxymoron. I know it's used all the time but I wanted to be right. This is the dictionary definition:
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in "cruel kindness"

locution is a form of expression. Why couldn't they just say that?
incongruous means inappropriate. Why couldn't they just say that?
Wouldn't it seem more simple for them to just say: An oxymoron is an inappropriate form of expression such as "sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind".
 
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