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**reds8n**

Ahhh... so it's like a kind of savoury scone or a type of dumpling. Thanks for that, been wondering after innumerable westerns and a scene in Preacher.

Whilst we're learning then : Why the big deal over halloween ? Just a big marketing hype/scam or is it actually indicative of something else about about american culture ?

**avantgarde**

Children get candy, adults go to parties and teenagers vandalize. Everyone wears costumes what's not to like?

I don't know if it's really that commercial, they do make a ton a money off candy, costumes and decorations but people still prefer homemade decorations and costumes (assuming it doesn't look bad) over store bought.

**Ahtman**

There are some people who follow religious ideology that recognizes the time period as important, but generally it ia all in good fun. Groups like some Native American tribes and Wiccans. We have a lot of very fervent Christians and so anything that smacks of non-Christian celebration, especially if it is tied to pre-Christianity makes them want to be jerks and ruin it for everyone else. This includes for the majority of Christians that just want to have a laugh with friends and eat some candy.

**Frazzled**

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Oh....a scone

If you must use our language, please endeavour to do so with some accuracy!

incorrect. The scones I have seen have been hard or dense affairs. Biscuits are only dense if cooked wrong. We wouldn't make something so wrong

**Frazzled**

Nah, all the Christians I know go berserk on Halloween. Its a time of fun. We make a haunted house in the garage complete with corridors and rooms O Terror! muahahah

**Greebynog**

I'm at a London art college, Halloween's one of the biggest nights of the year here. Art kids love costumes.

**reds8n**

jfrazell wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Oh....a scone

If you must use our language, please endeavour to do so with some accuracy!

incorrect. The scones I have seen have been hard or dense affairs. Biscuits are only dense if cooked wrong. We wouldn't make something so wrong

Hmm.. well I'd try them, but from the image it don't look all that !

And you have the nerve to laugh at our cuisine !

Halloween was never that big over here-- too close to Guy Fawkes night which is much cooler in my opinion-- but in the last decade or so it's exploded hugely-- largely ( according to the magic of common consensus) due to influence from the USA. Which has in turn led to the predictable outcry from the same sort of religious nutjobs who want to ban Harry Potter/LOTR/ whatever it is that kids are enjoying as it is "satanic" 1111 !! Oh NOES ! Realistically it's not so much the influence of America-- although all your shows we see go nuts over it-- but more the marketing people seeing a good idea and going for it.

What British sitcoms or shows do you guys watch ? I gather the USA version of Little Britain got fairly mixed reviews ( I find the show very tiresome after about 3.8 seconds generally, "jokes" go on far too long) and I do wonder what you guys make of British humour. I was amazed that The Office went down as well as it has, and there's some fairly funny/horrific tales to do with Fawlty Towers and Red Dwarf that we all hear about that makes me wonder. There's a brilliant show over here called " Peep Show" which is going to be remade over the pond, and I just don't see Americans getting it to be honest. I know 2 septics over here who've seen it-- one doesn't get it at all ( but he thinks Friends is hilarious so we know he's a twunt) whilst the other can't watch it as he finds it too embarrassing rather than funny.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I'm in Tunbridge Wells.

The alternative community will take any excuse to dress up. This year, I'm going as a Dead Scotsman. Got my Poet Shirt already, got my Kilt already, all I need to is gory up my face over some daub, and jobs a good'un!

And your so-called Biscuits are still nothing of the sort!

Biscuit is a word we got from the French as recompense for not being British once, and it's literal translation is 'twice cooked (bis cuit).
Ergo, your so-called Biscuits are in fact, Cakes. Scones to be precise. And I highly doubt that white stuff is in fact Gravy, which to qualify has to be a sauce or jus (yeah, we just pinched that one to see what the French would do) made from the juices of a piece of meat. That, is just a plain sauce.

Silly, silly Americans!

**Frazzled**

White gravy is in fact gravy. Any further disparagement of the metric ton of awesome that is biscuits and gravy will result in approximately ten million rednecks driving their pickup trucks to England with their shotguns to deal with this offense to our honor.

And if you think pick up trucks can't float you haven't seen the tires on a redneck pickup truck

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

jfrazell wrote:White gravy is in fact gravy. Any further disparagement of the metric ton of awesome that is biscuits and gravy will result in approximately ten million rednecks driving their pickup trucks to England with their shotguns to deal with this offense to our honor. And if you think pick up trucks can't float you haven't seen the tires on a redneck pickup truck

So, your sending your Rednecks huh? With girly shotguns?

I shall rally our Geordies.

Geordies, master of How Ye, the ancient, secret North Eatern Martial Art of Unprovoked Agression.

We're not scared of your namby pamby, Nancy Rednecks!

Besides, you're threatening to send them to another country. Another country which they will refuse to believe exists, and will probably shoot you for being a witch! HA! Britain shall Triumph!

**Frazzled**

No, one to many of you will eat eggs with..baked beans and the island will implode into a little baked bean black hole. The French will sip dwine and declaim that they could have imploded into a black hole even better if they had wanted to ...

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

We can't form a Blackhole when we have Black Pudding!

ECKY THUMP!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJxGi8bizEg

Tasty dish and implement of Lancastrian Agony!

**Grignard**

reds8n wrote:" My cousin Vinnie" suddenly makes a whole lot more sense.

Key Lime pie is just Lime pie eh ? Kind of disappointing.

I am confused still as to "white gravy" and "biscuits". What are the biscuits made of-- over here biscuits is the term for what ( I believe) you guys call cookies, with cookie being a specific type of biscuit. Are these southern biscuits more akin to rusks then ?

A real Key Lime pie is made with Key Limes, not regular limes.

**reds8n**

Aaahh.

As in Florida Keys one assumes yes ? I'm assuming there is some flavour difference too ? You don't mean something completely different when you say "Lime" like you do with "fanny" do you ?

**Phoenix**

jfrazell wrote:White gravy is in fact gravy. Any further disparagement of the metric ton of awesome that is biscuits and gravy will result in approximately ten million rednecks driving their pickup trucks to England with their shotguns to deal with this offense to our honor.

If I remember the latest "sorry state of education" statistics, something like 65% of Red Necks wouldn't be able to find the UK even if given a map. That and driving their pickups there should they be able to find it will simply result in the Ford content of the Atlantic Ocean going up considerably.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

I heard something about a depressingly high percentage of Americans thinking Britain, or the United Kingdom, to be more precise, was somewhere in the middle east!

**Frazzled**

Its not?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

No. It's not.

Clearly you are thinking of the United Arab Emirates, which is nothing to with Britain. Well, not since we lost the Empire at any rate!

**Frazzled**

You're assuming I'm thinking. My wife never makes that assumption...

**Kilkrazy**

Key Lime pie is a lime pie made with Key Limes. They are different to ordinary limes. Part of the state cuisine of Florida.

I love it.

Check out Key Limes at this website http://www.keylime.com/

**reds8n**

Very few people ship in their own key limes to squeeze them in house. There is only one other pie-maker in the country that does it that I am aware of."

Executive director of the American Pie Council

You have a national Pie council ? You wacky wacky people, I love you more everyday. BOO to the lack of shipping of said tasty sounding goodness though, I am now determined to sample this delight.

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Altogether!

Who ate all the Pies?
Who ate all the Pies?
You fat

You fat

You ate all the Pies!

**Da Boss**

To the Brits: Does anyone actually believe the gak written in those tabloids?
Are people from liverpool actually human, or are they some sort of boozefueled yeti crossbreeds who cannot be killed?
To the Scots: Do ye really think independance from Britain would be that beneficial?
To the Welsh: How come ye can't hold yer booze? The English and the Scots can, but get a welshman 3 pints in and it's all singing and hilarity. (I love the Welsh)

To the Yanks: Seriously, do the attack adds and stuff not absolutely disgust you? That gak would never fly over here.
And how come religion is such a big deal in politics over there?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Tabloids? You mean the daily joke funny pages? I don't, some do. Depressing really.

Independance....it may and may not be. We would have a decent economy, thanks to the Oil and Gas, but that is finite. In short, not sure.

**reds8n**

Da Boss wrote:To the Brits: Does anyone actually believe the gak written in those tabloids?
Are people from liverpool actually human, or are they some sort of boozefueled yeti crossbreeds who cannot be killed?

1. Only with regards to sport and "celebrity" gossip. They sell generally due to either A: Tits B: Special offers etc . They're like the UK version of those loud shock jocks the septics get I think. I think the amount of attention they garner from the politicians is disproportionate to their actual sway these days I think. they were powerful in the past though, hence why Labour courted The Scum newspaper so vigourusly.

2. Well... many of them are of Irish descent so.....

City has the lowest selling circulation of the Sun of any British city or town incidentally, sales never recovered after their disgraceful coverage of the Hillsborough tragedy.

**Da Boss**

I went drinking in liverpool. And I'm 100% Irish. Those people could down the entire guiness brewery in a blizzard, wearing nothing but shorts and a tee shirt, and then go out for some "real drinking".
Crazy bastards! Good craic though.
The tabloids are a bloody pain over here. We get slightly reprinted versions (like 10% ireland specific content added in) and it's what most people read. So people are waaaay too overinformed on the right wing british veiws on things (hence the upsurge of euroskepticism) and underinformed about irish issues.

**Wolfstan**

I always find that if you get collared on the 4th July by an American, harping on about beating us... just ask them why the Whitehouse is called the Whitehouse

**Da Boss**

Is it something to do with TB?

**Wolfstan**

Nope, something a member of Menoth would do

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Well, we burnt it down. Must have been quite funny.

Legend has it that the Septics were about to sit down to a nice dinner, saw the Redcoats coming, and stegged it. So the Redcoats helped themselves, burnt it down, and then went back to Canadia.