Yes to all of the above, I believe. I wasn't allowed many sweets (you wouldn't think it to look at me now), but, on the rare occasions I went to play with my friend who was, I had a bizarre fondness for aniseed balls. I still love licorice comfits and can't buy them in case I eat the entire packet! (If I did, the results would just serve me right for being such a pig.)
Here's another one - slang terms for going to the loo. My mother said 'spend a penny', which is, oh god, oh god, just agonising to me in its tweeness. Quite honestly, I find 'having a pee' less offensive.
12 = Many of them are classics that seem to have gone away and then come back and so still available: Spangles, refreshers, sherbet fountains, sherbet dips/dib-dabs, space-dust (limited time only; it got withdrawn for some reason), curly-wurly, chewits, opal fruits (for long car journeys), PK chewing gum (rare treat), cough candy twists, army & navy, peanut brittle, those hard lolly-pops made seemingly of hardened powder in changing layers of pastel colours, parma violets, love hearts, pez blocks, the toffee chocolate balls (like a toffee malteser) in a blue bag, there was a peanut version in yellow too.
12. Polos - I remember when they were 6p a pack. And Opal Fruits - made to make your mouth water. And Pyramints - do you remember those? They were little dark chocolate pyramids filled with that minty goo that they used in minty eggs. Oh, minty eggs! Flying saucers! Gummy Cola bottles (with or without the fizz)! And those little bags of mixed sweets you used to get for 10p.....
1. Describe a muffin Mostly small spongey cakes made with things like chocolate chips and blueberries (i.e. the American sort). I distinctly remember watching Sesame Street once and hearing something described as an "English muffin", and am vaguely aware that this is not the same thing
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re. English muffins: I'm always amused by the fact that pretty much anything that has another nationality attached to its name turns out to be something that people from that country wouldn't recognise at all. evilmissbecky was outraged by the pizza topping that was named "The American" on the menu of a London restaurant. I can't remember what it consisted of, but she swore that no American would ever put that thing on top of a pizza.
evilmissbecky was outraged by the pizza topping that was named "The American" on the menu of a London restaurant. I can't remember what it consisted of, but she swore that no American would ever put that thing on top of a pizza.
Okay, now I'm curious. Considering the range of things I've seen put on pizzas in this country, I'm beginning to wonder what Americans won't put on them. Maybe we wouldn't put octopus on pizza, but I'm having trouble thinking of much of anything else considered a food item that I haven't seen on one.
Of course, one must remember that I live in California, and the coasts tend to be fairly adventurous in a culinary sense.
I could be remembering wrongly, but I believe it was sweetcorn - which Americans just call corn, don't they? (To us, "corn" is something different.) I think the topping might have been pepperoni and sweetcorn.
I'm having trouble thinking of much of anything else considered a food item that I haven't seen on one.
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Here's another one - slang terms for going to the loo. My mother said 'spend a penny', which is, oh god, oh god, just agonising to me in its tweeness. Quite honestly, I find 'having a pee' less offensive.
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12 = Many of them are classics that seem to have gone away and then come back and so still available: Spangles, refreshers, sherbet fountains, sherbet dips/dib-dabs, space-dust (limited time only; it got withdrawn for some reason), curly-wurly, chewits, opal fruits (for long car journeys), PK chewing gum (rare treat), cough candy twists, army & navy, peanut brittle, those hard lolly-pops made seemingly of hardened powder in changing layers of pastel colours, parma violets, love hearts, pez blocks, the toffee chocolate balls (like a toffee malteser) in a blue bag, there was a peanut version in yellow too.
13 = Snaffling Irons
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*has to go and lie down*
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Okay, now I'm curious. Considering the range of things I've seen put on pizzas in this country, I'm beginning to wonder what Americans won't put on them. Maybe we wouldn't put octopus on pizza, but I'm having trouble thinking of much of anything else considered a food item that I haven't seen on one.
Of course, one must remember that I live in California, and the coasts tend to be fairly adventurous in a culinary sense.
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I'm having trouble thinking of much of anything else considered a food item that I haven't seen on one.
Chocolate?
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