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Ghastly American imports

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  • MrsGlaze said:
    Lyn said:
    MrsGlaze said:
    I'm having a proper Cornish pasty for tea tonight, 
    I bet you’re not, a proper Cornish Pasty had stewed sweet apple in one half of it, thus doing away with a separate desert. 😀
    but then perhaps you are, I can’t see your pasty. 
    You are right it wasn't, but it was pretty darn good :)@Dovefromabove is that where the expression of dropping a clanger originates from? I'd be gutted to drop one of those!
    Dunno @M@MrsGlaze ... according to my late Ma (who was from Bedfordshire and despite her usually abysmal cooking skills she made a good clanger) the name comes from the fact that a 'clanger pudding' resembled the clanger in a church bell ... so possibly dropping a clanger comes from the noisy one, not the tasty one?  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Slight change of direction - I love maple syrup.   That's a great export.   Don't indulge often but sometimes it just hits the spot.  Tamla Motown and Atlantic Soul are great too.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    edited September 2018
    So was Paul Robeson, in more ways than one.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'd love it if we imported one very , very thing they do in usa. 
    Every house, ( even the whitehouse (1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500, USA)  ) has to have a number , prominently displayed and a road name.
    For those of us who drive around the country looking for houses with no signs, faded signs, broken signs, illegible signs it'd be a huge bonus.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Funnily enough Hosta, it was a thing in Belgium too.  Every house has a wee blue official plaque, quite small, with the house number on so that emergency services can find you.  


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Obelixx said:
    Funnily enough Hosta, it was a thing in Belgium too.  Every house has a wee blue official plaque, quite small, with the house number on so that emergency services can find you.  


    and delivery drivers.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No SM deliveries yet but yes, UPS/DHL and so on need all the help they can get.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    If you’ve not heard of it, google ‘What three words’. It could make life so much easier for delivery drivers and emergency vehicles. In countries without a good postcode system I believe the concept has been warmly welcomed.
    Rutland, England
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