There are fruit fflavored candy canes, too. I've had cherry and blueberry ones.
On 9/7/12, Bryan Peterson <bpeterson2...@cableone.net> wrote: > Well candy canes are a hard candy that you would suck on. As for flavors > they tend to come in a variety. The most common is peppermint but I've also > > had chocolate. > > > > But thou must! > -----Original Message----- > From: dark > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:32 PM > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindgameware > > Hi Tom. > > interesting, I actually didn't know in America "use the toilet" would be > considdered a vulgar expression. There are of course less polite ways of > referring to the toilet, such as the bog, the crapper, the shithole, or in > scotland the cludgy, but there is nothing at all wrong with "toilet" at > all, > and if you did! refer to it as say the lady's or the gents (short for > gentlemen's sinse the term mens room never existed here either), most > people > would assume you were being overly dainty or trying to be specifically > upper > class. > > Interestingly enough though, even in the British editions of harry potter, > Jk rowling still occasionally refers to "the bathroom" though she also uses > loo or toilet as well. I'm not sure if this was either a picked up > Americanism on her part, or because like a lot of large institutions she > imagined hogwarts having combined toilet and bathroom facilities, though > she > never mentions there being a bath in moaning murtle's toilet or there being > a toilet in the prefect's bathroom so on this I'm not sure. > > As to the hole subject of sweets, I've seen! candy canes in American > programs, but what they taste like or are composed of I have no idea. > > I suspect we do have soemthing similar to the sour patches you mention, > sinse we do have a lot of what we'd call jellies, such as wine gums, > harribo > etc, some of which can be pretty sour and chewy, though they wouldn't > really > be distinguished with a universal name like sour patches. > > Chocolate I can give you a hole discourse on sinse like coffee it's > something I''m a little serious about. I have no idea what Us chocolate is > like at all or what the differences are precisely, but I do know a lot of > Uk > chocolate has far too little coco, --- especially those manufactured mars, > neslay, which is precisely why I myself only tend to buy chocolate that has > a whacking great coco percentage and is usually german or swiss and bought > from specialist shops. > > I do know a lot of things in the Us contain a lot more corn syrup, > including > things like bread and tomatoe ketchup, which thus makes them often taste > quite sweet to people who are used to the British versions, ---- indeed a > friend of mine who frequently goes to the states for his job says this > drives him absolutely up the wall, buying a savory sandwich and finding it > tastes to him like it's been made with slices of cake rather than bread. > > As to religion, well over here fundamentalism is much more the exception > than the rule and you would be thought of as rather nuts if you had such > beliefs, and probably avoided. > > When I was attending church each week, the idea of the vicar shouting at > the > congrigation, going on a wrant about hell and demons or anything like that > would be quite unthinkable, indeed outside of bible readings I only ever > remember "hell" being mentioned as separation from god, or as a state of > mind, and demons never mentioned at all. > > likewise, the idea of someone actually condemning! others in a religious > service, ---- though it might happen with some fundamentalist fringe groups > would be very much frowned upon over here. > > i think the statement about people not talking about religion is slightly > incorrect, or may be on the part of bias from the author, though then again > as a philosophy student I tend to find I get into discussions with people > about religion anyway. I will say though that it's far less likely in such > discussions to run into someone who won't be to a degree accepting, though > of course it does happen. > > Just as in many parts of the world the British are thought of as up tite, > obsessed with tradition and incapable of showing emotion, over here a > common > sterriotype about americans is that Americans are loud, over emotional and > do things to excess. > > of course, this is a sterriotype and so not true of any individual > american, > but just like some other sterriotypical beliefs about nations, for instance > that germans are very good at organizing or that Japanese are very polite, > there may be a grane of truth in such beliefs as they apply to the over all > spirit of a culture, just as it is true that displays of emotion, or indeed > affection are still slightly discouraged in Britain, indeed when I studdied > sartre's theory of emotions which stated that inner states of emotions were > entirely characterized and subordinated to the outward actions of the body, > and of society's interactions with the body, the lecturer noted that Sartre > was of course french, where emotions were much more physically expressed, > and the idea of someone say feeling intensive joy or disgust but not > reacting physically would not be one that would occur to Sartre. > > Before however this gets too far into a social and existential analysis I'd > better stop as that deffinately! goes beyond the bounds of what should be > on > the list, indeed perhaps we should discuss this privately off list. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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