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Well, I am English through and through. I have never met anyone who drinks black tea with lemon! I love Marmite, love Nutella, but haven't bought it for years. I get the Daily Mail on Saturday for the telly pages, but I don't read the actual paper - some of the things they print make me cross! I like a Sunday roast especially in the cooler months, we usually have pork and stuffing!

I love Dr Who, especially the David Tennant ones. Top Gear is okay, but Jeremy Clarkson is a total pr**k.

I spent quite a bit of time in America when I was younger and found that the main difference is how over-friendly the Americans were compared to British. Like, after one conversation they would give you their address and make you promise to come visit whenever you wanted (but probably be horrified if you turned up on their doorstep with a suitcase!!) Us Brits are more reserved and suspicious of people :hehe. Plus you guys have REALLY sweet tooths! I like a bit of sugar but everything seemed to be twice as sweet!

Friendly and sweet - that's not so bad :)
 
PS got bored of Strictly a couple of years ago - they drag it out too much with all the silly skits in between the dancing... Love I'm A Celebrity though ;)
 
Kate W said:
Well, I am English through and through. I have never met anyone who drinks black tea with lemon! I love Marmite, love Nutella, but haven't bought it for years. I get the Daily Mail on Saturday for the telly pages, but I don't read the actual paper - some of the things they print make me cross! I like a Sunday roast especially in the cooler months, we usually have pork and stuffing!

I love Dr Who, especially the David Tennant ones. Top Gear is okay, but Jeremy Clarkson is a total pr**k.

I spent quite a bit of time in America when I was younger and found that the main difference is how over-friendly the Americans were compared to British. Like, after one conversation they would give you their address and make you promise to come visit whenever you wanted (but probably be horrified if you turned up on their doorstep with a suitcase!!) Us Brits are more reserved and suspicious of people :hehe. Plus you guys have REALLY sweet tooths! I like a bit of sugar but everything seemed to be twice as sweet!

Friendly and sweet - that's not so bad :)
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Totally with you on Jeremy Clarkson :thumbsdowns I was hoping you would see this thread Kate. It's so fascinating to see the differences between cultures, and the misconceptions that exist. As for pork and stuffing...I could just eat just the stuffing lol. My absolute fav is roast lamb with mint sauce :beat
 
Well I am one of that rare breed that drinks black tea with a slice of lemon (Earl Grey), goes down especially well with a scone with jam and clotted cream.

I also love Marmite - I have it on crumpets for breakfast at work.

We also have a traditional roast dinner every Sunday.

Never heard of Biscoff, but I do love Peanut Butter.

I don't watch much reality tv, but I do like Dr Who, Who do you think you are? Great British Bake Off amongst others. I used to like Top Gear but Jeremy Clarkson has become such a %%## whatever that he put me off.
 
lorryfach said:
Denmark has a DWTSish show called Vild med Dans (wild about dance) but I never watch it. I have watched some Strictly, and I very rarely know the British stars but I still love the dancing! It makes me wish I was coordinated. And famous enough to be invited to be on DWTS so I could dance with Mark or Derek. ;)

I've never had haggis, but I'd probably love it because meat. :giggle I'm not one to get queasy about offal. I've just never been anywhere it was available!

Yes, Nutella is originally Italian. And delicious. And enjoyed in every country I've ever been in, although it does tend to be more popular outside the US because the US is so into peanut butter.
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and this (so many things in this post) is why I LOVE you!!!!!!
I m also not queasy about offal, if I mention the stuff my mum cooks and I grew up with in front of Sarita, she can have a fit (she was vegetarian for over 5 years, stopped after so many infections now have made her anemic)

Also love Nutella...which I never knew until I came to this country....as for Peanut Butter...also LOVE it!!!!!!! the crunchy type, but again, for me, before I left South America, peanut butter was something you head translated in the TV series and sounded so weird!!!

I would love to meet you in person Lorry, even though I know you said you are different in person (we are all, I think, to a degree) I hope that you can make it when we do the the Pad meet next year.....
 
Kate W said:
Well, I am English through and through. I have never met anyone who drinks black tea with lemon!
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Kate, this is the kind of thought I had when starting this thread.... that the rest of the world has an idea of England in Empire long gone times.... and, for my family, (Syrian's who spread all over Europe before going to the Americas) I think they have the 1800s tea thing... the Middle East drinks many teas with lemon or a mint leaf, so maybe is the way they adapted it, but the whole of South America has this picture of the 5 o clock ladies at tea, drinking in very fine porcelain with a pinky up in the air LOL there are many graphics of it, showing both the slices of lemon and a little jar with milk.
There are so many things I could name that I realized when I got here that have nothing to do with the English essence these days, but make sense that Latinos think about it as it shows in history :)

I love Marmite, love Nutella, but haven't bought it for years. I get the Daily Mail on Saturday for the telly pages, but I don't read the actual paper - some of the things they print make me cross! I like a Sunday roast especially in the cooler months, we usually have pork and stuffing!
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LOVE love LOVE Sunday roast!!!!!! we used to do every week with Sarita's dad, and be a reason to get family together.... never understood very welk the stuffing thing, but LOVE it!!!!!!!

I love Dr Who, especially the David Tennant ones. Top Gear is okay, but Jeremy Clarkson is a total pr**k.
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I am with you 100% , in both counts!!!!!!!!

I spent quite a bit of time in America when I was younger and found that the main difference is how over-friendly the Americans were compared to British. Like, after one conversation they would give you their address and make you promise to come visit whenever you wanted (but probably be horrified if you turned up on their doorstep with a suitcase!!) Us Brits are more reserved and suspicious of people :hehe. Plus you guys have REALLY sweet tooths! I like a bit of sugar but everything seemed to be twice as sweet!

Friendly and sweet - that's not so bad :)
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This was one of the things that I found most difficult to overcome when I first got here...especially as all the guys thought I wanted to have sex with them...because us Latinos are so expressive with our bodies, in Brasil you meet someone, say hello and kiss both cheeks....
Also the fact that we offer food and even take offense if you don't eat (like food = love LOL) and here in the beginning all you got was a cup of tea..... my sister in law (but that is probably just her because she is bitchy LOL) would wait until we were putting our coats on to leave, make food for herself and start eating before we left the house!!!!!

but the one thing I know is, once one knows you, you can be the most amazing people there are...... of course this is like everywhere in the world, there are great, good, not so good...and the ugly. I got the last bit on the lottery with my in laws LOL
but I have many British friends who have become family and I am proud to be an adopted Londoner...

You girls here are the proof of how wonderful Brits can be, honestly, couldn't hope for better representation....with you all here, talented,with a great heart, always approachable......

:heartslub:heartslub:heartslub
 
Is Jeremy Clarkson really that bad? Lol. I don't know what he's like outside of the show, but on the show I suppose he was mild. I just assume he's sarcastic, which fits along with husband's and mine sense of humor mostly. Lol
 
Biscoff is yummy. Like some gingery cookies crunched into a sweet spread. We can get it over in the states (at least in Washington) through a quirky store called Trader Joe's, but it is hard to find because it is so popular. The only reason I'd ever heard of it was because of Pinterest. We got a little jar, but I can't figure out what to put it on. :giggle
 
scrapsandsass said:
Biscoff is yummy. Like some gingery cookies crunched into a sweet spread. We can get it over in the states (at least in Washington) through a quirky store called Trader Joe's, but it is hard to find because it is so popular. The only reason I'd ever heard of it was because of Pinterest. We got a little jar, but I can't figure out what to put it on. :giggle
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Toast, waffles, graham crackers, to start.... ;)
 
Cyn, I can be slow to come out of my shell in person but I bet you could draw me out. ;) I do hope we can meet! Dagmar is begging to go "back" to London (she talks as if she remembers it, but she was 7 months lol) so fingers crossed :)
 
The UK is close by and there are a lot of things the same and also a lot of things different there from the Netherlands. I love it though. My British knowlegde nowadays is mostly by watching British YouTubers. Lol! (my faves are AmazingPhil and danisnotonfire, anyone know them? probably not) It does result in me speaking with a mostly British accent while 5 years ago I lived in Canada (BC) and multiple people asked me if I were French. Like what? No, I'm not? But I guess it's better then being told I sound horribly Dutch. Oh god.
I love afternoon/high tea with scones (we pronounce it like stones) and clotted cream and jelly. I love Cadburry chocolate. I ADORE fish and chips. I hate the vinegar flavoured potato crisps. Ugh.
I remember when I was young and we went on holiday to the UK we went to castle after castle. I discussed this with my parents the other day and they said we may have visited 1 or 2 per holiday but yet I remember it as much more. Also the white chalk rocks.
But now when I go visit London, we always go and see a musical by buying cheap tickets at the ticket box on the square that same day.
 
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klee73010 said:
Is Jeremy Clarkson really that bad? Lol. I don't know hat he's like outside of the show, but on the show I suppose he was mild. I just assume he's sarcastic, which fits along with husband's and mine sense of humor mostly. Lol
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He is racist and a total misogynist, he's been sacked now - Hooray! He once said on live tv that he wanted civil servants and their families to all die horrible deaths because they went on strike, then said it was a joke...I am sarcastic, but trust me, that guy is a ********* *******. Fill in the blanks yourself lol! He also writes/used to write a newspaper column so chock full of offensive nonsense...

Anyway, rant over :giggle
 
My family hails from England. My great grandfather had some quirks, that have passed from him to my grandfather, and then to my mother and me.

My family always seemed to pay way more attention to greetings, manners, and table etiquette than my friend's families, lol. My mom said it was because of my Great grandfather and his British heritage. (?) We were expected at a young age to be well mannered and have excellent table manners. My grandfather would smack the back of your hand with his knife if you were acting up. We had to know all the different utensils, and what they could be used for - as in the seafood, cake, fish, dessert forks, knives, glasses, etc. Dinner was always formal, and you couldn't eat until after my grandfather started eating.

We used different nicknames too... It was love, or lovie, and occasionally duck/duckie as endearments. Not sure where duck came from. DH actually calls me lovie most of the time.

I think a lot of my family food quirks have come down the line from our British family... tea (no coffee here), crumpets, kippers, Yorkshire Pudding, roast potatoes (I didn't have mashed potatoes growing up, lol), Brussels Sprouts. I don't know if the last are really British, but I've grown up with them.... and most other people didn't like them, or didn't have them served at meals.

This is just my family... I'm not totally sure if this is because of my great grandfather, I've just been told it was like that because of his heritage. :)
 
jk703 said:
My family hails from England. My great grandfather had some quirks, that have passed from him to my grandfather, and then to my mother and me.

My family always seemed to pay way more attention to greetings, manners, and table etiquette than my friend's families, lol. My mom said it was because of my Great grandfather and his British heritage. (?) We were expected at a young age to be well mannered and have excellent table manners. My grandfather would smack the back of your hand with his knife if you were acting up. We had to know all the different utensils, and what they could be used for - as in the seafood, cake, fish, dessert forks, knives, glasses, etc. Dinner was always formal, and you couldn't eat until after my grandfather started eating.

We used different nicknames too... It was love, or lovie, and occasionally duck/duckie as endearments. Not sure where duck came from. DH actually calls me lovie most of the time.

I think a lot of my family food quirks have come down the line from our British family... tea (no coffee here), crumpets, kippers, Yorkshire Pudding, roast potatoes (I didn't have mashed potatoes growing up, lol), Brussels Sprouts. I don't know if the last are really British, but I've grown up with them.... and most other people didn't like them, or didn't have them served at meals.

This is just my family... I'm not totally sure if this is because of my great grandfather, I've just been told it was like that because of his heritage. :)
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Yep, all British and definitely the sprouts! I love them, but a lot of people don't. I wouldn't dream of serving up Christmas dinner without them. As for the manners, I am quite hot on table manners and can't stand it when children don't say please and thank you. But the whole manners thing seems to be dying out a bit, which is a shame.
 
Everyone says "me duck" here! Especially the older people. I'm nowhere near Staffs though! I also dislike bad manners, but I don't think that's just a British thing! At least I hope not!
 
There are so many things in here that I don't know about. For instance... why tea at 5:00? Is that a snack to get you through until a late dinner? Is it a meal? :giggle

Also, I don't know what Marmite, yorkshire pudding, clotted cream or jacket potato is?
 
klee73010 said:
Is Jeremy Clarkson really that bad? Lol. I don't know what he's like outside of the show, but on the show I suppose he was mild. I just assume he's sarcastic, which fits along with husband's and mine sense of humor mostly. Lol
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yes.
very.
how can I put it: sexist, bully, think women's place is in the kitchen- a figure of speech.... he is derogatory to women and the rest I cannot even put it into words.....
the kind of guy who thinks speed and having a great car makes him amazing......and he really is just a sad man, a bully.

he was fired from Top Gear, I think it was a couple of month ago, because he physically attacked one of the crew...not a small worker....his producer!!!!!!
the kind of guy who never studied anything and got to have one of the highest ratings on TV....the program wasn't bad, but standing him and the kind of comments he makes..... I LOVE love LOVE cars..... but at some point we stopped watching.

My ex husband was a bit of a machista in a good way, but even him didn't like Clarkson LOL
 
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