Culture: Two nations divided...

[ShirleyT]

I get it; it's a favorite game here in our resort town...

A popular bumper sticker - "If it's tourist season, why can't you shoot them?"

[doubleh]

I just joined the forum a couple of days ago and ran across this topic today. I read all thirteen pages it was so interesting. I learned a lot about the UK and even some things about the US.

[BIGGUNDOCTOR]

Read the first 4 pages then jumped to the end.

Best Brit TV show? Dr Who of course. Quick-to the Tardis!

Most of the language diffs have been made. I still see vise/vice used in the blacksmith forum. I use a vise at work, and there are lots of vices in Las Vegas. I caused our Australian friends to giggle when I was around 12, when I said that I was "stuffed" after eating dinner. It means having sex in OZ. One thing that I have noticed is that we Americans are pretty uptight when it comes to sex / nudity compared to our friends in Europe, UK, and OZ. You won't see any page 3 girls in the local newspapers here. And even though we have the first amendment radio stations censor songs that are played. Our second amendment rights have spawned some business in this area. Tourists can go to some of our gun stores, and rent a machine gun, and they do quite well.

Food. I am from CA and NV, so I grew up with lots of different types of food. In between San Francisco, and Sacramento , where I grew up, we had large populations from Asia, Latin America, and everywhere else. I grew up on basic American fare along with burritos, fajitas, won tons, fondue, lasagna, pizza, perogies, Kim Chee, birds nest soup, etc. I love food, so living near Las Vegas now gives me opportunities to get my curry fix, or any other hankering I may have taken care of. BBQ differences. Most places it means pork, in Texas it means beef. I try to eat at local places now instead of the chains.

Can't say we had much in the way of regional fare where I grew up, other than maybe the shrimp cocktails, or Dungeness crabs down on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. That area was so diverse that it was like a worldwide food court everywhere you went.

Found a cooker to do rosin potatoes while going through my folks estate. I remember Dad telling me about having them in South Carolina, so I may have to try some out. Rosin potatoes are cooked in pine tree rosin. Melt the rosin in the cast iron pot, and drop the potatoes in. They sink when they are raw, and float to the top when they are cooked.

Edited September 18, 2010 by BIGGUNDOCTOR

[hivemind]

OMG, I did forget 'pop'! 'Pop' is what the elitist yokels here (you know, the ones who feel they have to dress up to go to Walmart) call 'soda'

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

Where I live in Central NY, it's soda. Go three hours west to Buffalo and it's pop.

[UKRay]

http://popvssoda.com:2998/

Where I live in Central NY, it's soda. Go three hours west to Buffalo and it's pop.

Over here it was just 'fizzy drink'. I can't remember any other name for it. I even called my sister, who is famous for having an amazing memory for each and every one of my childhood misdeeds, and she says the same. Isn't that odd. I knew the word 'pop' but never used it.

When I was a kid growing up in the 1950s and 60son the south coast of England, we used to have bottled lemonade delivered to the door. The 'Corona' lemonade guy had a whole range of flavours (okay, make that flavors - LOL) including dandelion and burdock, cherryade, ginger beer and a weird cola. It must have been quite cheap too or we wouldn't have had it. Does anyone else remember this? Did you get lemonade deliveries where you come from?

Ray

[dirtclod]

Ray we grew around the same time 50's and 60's. Around here the only thing that was ever delivered was the mail and daily paper if you got one. As far as cold drinks you would be asked if you wanted a cold drink or Coke that was what ever thing was called no matter the brand.

We had and still have orange, grape, root beer. But the best one when i was growing up was a chocolate drink in a bottle that you had to shake up before you drank it it ( and it wasn't a Yahoo ) but i can't remember the name. We had small Coke's 6 ounce bottle and Big Coke's 10 ounce bottle. The little ones cost 5 cents and a big one was 7 cents and went up to 10 cents.

[rdb]

In Massachusetts, we called it Tonic, not soda, not pop, not fizzy drink. It was Tonic, until you got closer to NY, and into Conn, then it became Soda. NOBODY in the USA called it Tonic accept us.

Having been a Carbonic Engineer (Soda Jerk) in my younger days, I get where we called it tonic. Coke syrup, was a staple at the pharmacy, even prescribed by doctors for young children ills. The other local bottled drink was Moxie. Coke and Moxie were the biggest drinks available in the 5 cent vending machines. Both of them had been sold in the pharmacies as Tonics...for what ailed ya.

[Art]

I think it was Chocola, haven't seen it in a while.

Art

Ray we grew around the same time 50's and 60's. Around here the only thing that was ever delivered was the mail and daily paper if you got one. As far as cold drinks you would be asked if you wanted a cold drink or Coke that was what ever thing was called no matter the brand.

We had and still have orange, grape, root beer. But the best one when i was growing up was a chocolate drink in a bottle that you had to shake up before you drank it it ( and it wasn't a Yahoo ) but i can't remember the name. We had small Coke's 6 ounce bottle and Big Coke's 10 ounce bottle. The little ones cost 5 cents and a big one was 7 cents and went up to 10 cents.

[tonyc1]

It's only in recent years that it's been called soft drink here in Tasmania. We always referred to it as cordial (and still do here at home) and that term covered all the bottled soft drinks. I know elsewhere Cordial is the syrup that is mixed with water but here at home we call it water cordial. The names of Pop and Soda are never used unless you're having scotch and soda.

Tony.

[celticleather]

Ray

I remember Corona, in all its flavours, delivered to your door every week by the 'Corona Man'. It had a clip-on cap that would keep the 'fizz' in.

I went out for a drink with my daughters a couple of weeks ago, and one of them asked for a Corona. I said that I didn't know it still existed . . . and then found out that it's now a Mexican lager beer! I must get out more!

Terry