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Quoted message said:"Ophelia" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:Quoted message said:>But what on spinning Earth does the British gecko mean in those tv
>commercials when saying that insurance quotes are as popular as "pie
>and chips"?!
>
>I have some fondness of British culture, accents and language, and
>while I've heard of British cuisine as being, um, let us say ...
>exotic ... I've never heard of "pie AND chips" as some kind of meal,
>desert or side dish.
>
>Unless, does "pie" mean something different in English than it does
>in American?
Well....... DUH!!!
Is the most used language on the planet 'American'...... or English??
English got there first, tho American pop culture is the number one global
export (when it's not being infiltrated by Canadians, bent on world
domination--we got our eye on you Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, "Captain Kirk",
Shania, Alannis, et. al.--until every country is filled with provinces,
snow, moose and squirrels, or more likely beavers, and gigantic mugs of
beer).
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:>I mean I've enjoyed a Big Mac, fries and apple pie from McDonalds but
>I never thought of the "fries and pie" as its own entity. "Burger
>and fries",
>sure, like "ham and eggs" or "eggs and grits" or "toast and coffee",
>but "pie and chips"?
>
>-- Anglophile Ken from Chicago
http://www.australianpieco.com/
Go buy a pie and chips, and find out for yourself.
I really wish these Yanks would stop thinking that their
language/culture is the be all to end all.
Here in Oz, if you ask for a pie, you get asked..... " What sort? Plain,
steak and onion, steak and mushroom, pie and peas, chicken pie.... etc,
etc."
We all know that the namby pamby Yanks view a 'pie' as something with
fruit in it, or maybe some tinned pumpkin (BLECH!!!!)......... but for
fricks sake..... at least try to learn that not every country in the
world speaks 'American', and not every country in the world has the same
[censored] food that you do.
A pie and chips is regarded as staple food in some parts of Oz (usually
as a counter meal in some backwater Pub, but even so........).
How does one find out about other cultures WITHOUT asking questions?
At least I was big enough to admit there may have been yet another occassion
where American and English words were defined differently, because I LIKE
finding out about other cultures, where bum refers to one's bottom and not
merely a vagrant, or where they drive on a different side of the road, or
take walkabout in vast terroritories, or societies founded by convicts,
where all football players is play ball with their feet and not buried under
tons of padding, where a meter is used to measure more than music,
temperature and utilities used. While I'm sorry you had a horrendous
experience with one Chicagoan, mate, there's no need to lash out on all of
us.
I'm sure there are plenty of pommies about to pick on (except for Claudia
Black, she only sounds like one from all her time in Britain, after all her
time on FARSCAPE, I think she's earned some slack).
-- Ken from Chicago
P.S. And you ozzies should be on the look out for Canadians too. They've
already managed to clone Victoria city from Canada to blooming state in
Australia (unless it's vice versa, after all, Canada has really low, if any,
restrictions on immigration).
