Oh, no, I'm not talking "real" cheese here! I definitely mean the sliced, square type that you find at Subway, Maccas (McDonalds) etc. aka Plastic Cheese.
I am very well aware of the thousands of types of delicious cheeses available world wide, me being a Fetta girl myself! Cheese is one of my favourite things in the whole world! I just thought of another thing too... Cordial! No-one, and I mean NO one in the US had any idea what I was talking about when I asked if anyone had cordial! We always have at least 2 bottles of different flavours in our house! It is a concentrated water syrup stuff that you add about a cm of to the bottom of a glass and fill the remainder with water. It is always a fruity flavour - raspberry, "fruit cup", orange, lime, lemon etc. The closest American equivalent I could find was "Kool Aid", but it is powder?! I was SO excited to come home and have a nice big glass of raspberry cordial! I guess we drink it like you guys drink Iced Tea - and it's just not the same without a ton of ice cubes clinking around the glass! Butter vs margarine - eeeeeeeew! There is NOTHING comparable to the taste of REAL butter, melted on toast with a scrape of vegemite. Yuuuuummmo! And margarine just doesn't cut it! :) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms Sent: Sunday, 14 March 2010 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: question for the brits American to English translation Depends on what cheese you saw, and where you saw it. If it was in one of the "old timey, mountain country stores" around Grandfather Mountain, and the cheese was cut in wedges off a big wheel, you missed a treat, North Carolina red rind hoop cheese. It's a traditional farm made cheese carried down from the days of spring houses in back-woods "hollers" where cheese making was the only way to keep milk from spoiling before it got to market. It doesn't have food coloring except for the red in the bees-wax rind (which you peel off and throw away). "American Cheese" has the same relationship to real cheese that margarine has to butter. Both margarine and American Cheese have food coloring added - margarine because dairy farmers forced the U.S. Department of Agriculture to require it to do so. The dairy farms thought the color would be off-putting because butter is white. Didn't work, and now butter often has food color added so it will look like margarine. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4942 (20100313) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
