This whole British mess

[Fried Egg]

The pasties are very nice.

The only place to go for a proper pasty!

[GlenW]

With no carrots, right?

[InvisibleDuncan]

Originally posted by Fried Egg
Hey! Don't mock the Cornish!

Why ever not? No sense of humour?

[GlenW]

Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
Why ever not? No sense of humour?

You should never mock the afflicted, hasn't anybody ever told you that?

[Fried Egg]

I always thought pasties were tassles that strippers put over their nipples to avoid indecent exposure charges.

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!

With no carrots, right?

Dam Right!

[simonm]

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!

[barrk]

Sounds yummy!!!!!!!!!!

[simonm]

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!

There's a Cornish peculiarity right there; they call both suedes and turnips the same thing: turnips.

In actual fact, they put suede in pasties, not turnips!

[GlenW]

Surely you mean swede, suede is what hush puppies are made from.

[Fried Egg]

In actual fact, they put suede in pasties, not turnips!

Oh, so you live in Cornwall for a couple of years and you think you know it all!

When I say there's turnips in pasties, there's turnips in pasties.

I have lived and breath pasties my whole life!

Why ever not? No sense of humour?

Saxon humour? No, we have our own thank you!

[simonm]

GlenW

Surely you mean swede, suede is what hush puppies are made from.

Yeah, that's what I mean!

Fried Egg

When I say there's turnips in pasties, there's turnips in pasties.

Yeah, whatever...Let's just say that "Swede" is the saxon word for "Turnip", shall we?

[Dillinger4]

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

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?

[GlenW]

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?

Actually Jamaica can't make changes to their constitution without agreement from The Queen. Although this is usually just a rubber stamp procedure.

[Jim Brown]

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

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by Fried Egg
I have lived and breath pasties my whole life!

Who needs oxygen when you can have 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?

he was referring to the fact you called England, Britain and the UK the same

[GlenW]

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

I'm going to resist the temptation..........

[Jim Brown]

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.

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.

[Wally Pipp]

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).

[GlenW]

Bottom left, the ugly bit that sticks out.

[chrisjk]

I assume you are familiar with the shape Wally

Well it's that bit that sticks out in the South West underneath Wales.

[hypnos]

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:

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.

[GlenW]

Originally posted by chrisjk
Well it's that bit that sticks out underneath Whales.

So Cornwall is a whales willy..

[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.

*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.

[Wally Pipp]

Plymouth and so on ? There ? Looks a bit like a errrm ... well, something dug up out of Lucy's toolshed

[InvisibleDuncan]

Originally posted by chrisjk
he was referring to the fact you called England, Britain and the UK the same

Exactly. Thanks, Chris.

[Fried Egg]

Plymouth and so on ? There ?

No! Plymouth is in Devon (it's the wrong side of the Tamar).

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.

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

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.

[Aerials]

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?

i think the british would know
by the way half of Ireland is actually under british rule lol

[hypnos]

by the way half of Ireland is actually under british rule lol

It's actually closer to 1/4.

[Aerials]

Originally posted by hypnos
It's actually closer to 1/4.

its an expression

[hypnos]

its an expression

It's an expression!!

[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.

[Illspirit]

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.

cheers

[Jim Brown]

Originally posted by snakeeyes1000
nobody I know really gives a *** about England.

What is a "***". Did you leave a "*" off, and really mean "****" or perhaps "****".

I can't think of a 3-letter curse that fits this context.

Can't you spell, ***?

[Gaffer]

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.

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.

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?

[Wally Pipp]

Went to Silverstone once. Oh and Glastonbury. And Reading. had the pleasure to experience the fine English culture first hand

[simonm]

snakeeyes1000

This might be off subject, but nobody I know really gives a *** about England. I went there, it was awful.

Why you reading this thread then (with Britain in the title)?

[Gaffer]

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

Heh, the only culture at Glastonbury is the stuff that grows in hippies underwear

simon, PLAYED.....

[Wally Pipp]

As long as they are female I don't care