The only place to go for a proper pasty! :cool:Quote:
The pasties are very nice.
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The only place to go for a proper pasty! :cool:Quote:
The pasties are very nice.
With no carrots, right?
Why ever not? No sense of humour?Quote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
Hey! Don't mock the Cornish! :mad:
You should never mock the afflicted, hasn't anybody ever told you that?:)Quote:
Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
Why ever not? No sense of humour?
Pasties are like pies with a pastry crust round the side (which miners used to hold) and filled with steak, turnip, onion, potato, butter and lots and lots of black pepper! Luvely Job! :)Quote:
I always thought pasties were tassles that strippers put over their nipples to avoid indecent exposure charges.
Dam Right!Quote:
With no carrots, right?
Actually, I miss a good pasty. Ever since I left Cornwall (where I used to eat them all the time), I just haven't been able to get a decent one...even in Devon!
It's some sort of magical ability that is only imbued to people who live the right side of the Tamar! :confused:
Sounds yummy!!!!!!!!!!
There's a Cornish peculiarity right there; they call both suedes and turnips the same thing: turnips.Quote:
Pasties are like pies with a pastry crust round the side (which miners used to hold) and filled with steak, turnip, onion, potato, butter and lots and lots of black pepper! Luvely Job!
In actual fact, they put suede in pasties, not turnips!
Surely you mean swede, suede is what hush puppies are made from.
Oh, so you live in Cornwall for a couple of years and you think you know it all! :mad:Quote:
In actual fact, they put suede in pasties, not turnips!
When I say there's turnips in pasties, there's turnips in pasties.
I have lived and breath pasties my whole life!
Saxon humour? No, we have our own thank you! :pQuote:
Why ever not? No sense of humour?
GlenW
Yeah, that's what I mean! :o ;)Quote:
Surely you mean swede, suede is what hush puppies are made from.
Fried Egg
Yeah, whatever...Let's just say that "Swede" is the saxon word for "Turnip", shall we? :DQuote:
When I say there's turnips in pasties, there's turnips in pasties.
Lets not get carried away here Ireland is Ireland i dont care what you say about it. What are you guys going to say next that Jamaica is part of the british rule because your queen is pasted all over their money? :pQuote:
Posted by InvisibleDuncan
Should I give Dilenger the benefit of the doubt and assume he
was joking? I can't believe anyone is genuinely that ignorant
Actually Jamaica can't make changes to their constitution without agreement from The Queen. Although this is usually just a rubber stamp procedure.Quote:
Originally posted by Dilenger4
Lets not get carried away here Ireland is Ireland i dont care what you say about it. What are you guys going to say next that Jamaica is part of the british rule because your queen is pasted all over their money? :p
Did you know....
- Cornish miners' wives (or whomever made the pasty) would decorate them with the guys' initials or other distinctive markings, so that down pit they'd know whose was whose
- And, one end of the pie was usually a sweet filling like fruit or something- that was the dessert end
Who needs oxygen when you can have pasties! :cool:Quote:
Originally posted by Fried Egg
I have lived and breath pasties my whole life!
he was referring to the fact you called England, Britain and the UK the sameQuote:
Lets not get carried away here Ireland is Ireland i dont care what you say about it. What are you guys going to say next that Jamaica is part of the british rule because your queen is pasted all over their money?
I'm going to resist the temptation.......... :cool:Quote:
Originally posted by Jim Brown
Did you know....
- And, one end of the pie was usually a sweet filling like fruit or something- that was the dessert end
HM's got far more important things to do, like walking the corgis and picking out a new scarf for the weekend in 't country, not to mention practising one's wave.Quote:
Originally posted by GlenW
Actually Jamaica can't make changes to their constitution without agreement from The Queen. Although this is usually just a rubber stamp procedure.
Where the hell is Cornwall anyway ? I know Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland but I've no idea about the UK provinces (counties I believe they are).
Bottom left, the ugly bit that sticks out.
I assume you are familiar with the shape Wally ;)
Well it's that bit that sticks out in the South West underneath Wales.
England, Scotland and Wales are known as Great Britain. England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland are known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and N. Irland. The word Britain dates back to Roman times. The Romans noticed that the inhabitance of this island called them selves Britons (or something similar) so named the island Britannia. Think of it as the US were a number of countries united.
The British Isles do indeed include Ireland. Here's a copy and past from Encarta:
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British Isles, archipelago, north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, near continental Europe, from which it is separated by the North Sea, the Strait of Dover, and the English Channel. It consists of the large islands of Great Britain and Ireland; several island groups, namely, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Hebrides, and the Channel Islands; and the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, and the Isle of Man. There are about 5,000 islands altogether in the archipelago, including numerous tiny islets.
So Cornwall is a whales willy..:DQuote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
Well it's that bit that sticks out underneath Whales.
But don't fall into the trap of thinking Cornwall's the most westerlay part of Britain. That honour is reserved for Ardnamurchan Point in Bonnie Scotland.
*ducks
When I worked in London (Euston Road NW, nearest tube Gt Portland Street), I had a colleague who had had a share in a Cornish trawler for some years. He was French and his wife was a Scot. His accent was way off the scale on indecipherability. Thought you should know.
Plymouth and so on ? There ? Looks a bit like a errrm ... well, something dug up out of Lucy's toolshed :)
Exactly. Thanks, Chris. :)Quote:
Originally posted by chrisjk
he was referring to the fact you called England, Britain and the UK the same
No! Plymouth is in Devon (it's the wrong side of the Tamar).Quote:
Plymouth and so on ? There ?
Cornwall, along with Brittany, Wales, Scotland and Ireland is one of the, commonly referred to, Celtic Nations. It's one of the areas of the British isles that did not get assimilated by the Anglo Saxons.
We have our own version of the Celtic language which is very similar to Welsh and Breton.
My Grandma still does that when she makes pasties for all the familly. She makes huge ones as well. So we leave the end of the pasty with the initials on 'till later so we each remember who's is who's.Quote:
Cornish miners' wives (or whomever made the pasty) would decorate them with the guys' initials or other distinctive markings, so that down pit they'd know whose was whose
i think the british would know :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by Dilenger4
Lets not get carried away here Ireland is Ireland i dont care what you say about it. What are you guys going to say next that Jamaica is part of the british rule because your queen is pasted all over their money? :p
by the way half of Ireland is actually under british rule lol
It's actually closer to 1/4.Quote:
by the way half of Ireland is actually under british rule lol
its an expression :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by hypnos
It's actually closer to 1/4.
It's an expression!! :rolleyes:Quote:
its an expression
This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful. Go to Ireland, they are just inherently better and more fit to live.
cheershttp://www.vbforums.com/images/icons/icon14.gifQuote:
Originally posted by snakeeyes1000
This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful. Go to Ireland, they are just inherently better and more fit to live.
What is a "***". Did you leave a "*" off, and really mean "****" or perhaps "****".Quote:
Originally posted by snakeeyes1000
nobody I know really gives a *** about England.
I can't think of a 3-letter curse that fits this context.
Can't you spell, ***?
Mmmm, maybe. With Britain, I take it you mean Great Britain, ie the main island. The most westernly part of the UK is near Pettigoe, Northern Ireland.Quote:
Originally posted by Jim Brown
But don't fall into the trap of thinking Cornwall's the most westerlay part of Britain. That honour is reserved for Ardnamurchan Point in Bonnie Scotland.
snakeeyes1000:
erm, I suspect that spending your own miserable holiday walking up and down and up and down Oxford Street is not indicitive of an awful country.
are you a fat burger munching Yank?
Went to Silverstone once. Oh and Glastonbury. And Reading. had the pleasure to experience the fine English culture first hand :)
snakeeyes1000
Why you reading this thread then (with Britain in the title)?Quote:
This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful.
Heh, the only culture at Glastonbury is the stuff that grows in hippies underwear :eek:Quote:
Originally posted by Wally Pipp
Went to Silverstone once. Oh and Glastonbury. And Reading. had the pleasure to experience the fine English culture first hand :)
simon, PLAYED.....
As long as they are female I don't care :)