[TAG] English->American dictionary

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Jimmy O'Regan (jimregan at o2.ie):

> I'd assumed you'd be familiar with it, I'm more than likely wrong. In 
> Ireland, one of the most common meals is boiled cabbage, bacon, and 
> potatoes. Think of a joint of pork, except... bacon.

Yummy.

This somehow reminds me:  What is it about your Scottish neighbours
frying all their food?  And how did they come by their mania for pizza?

Mind you, I have no complaints about Glaswegian cuisine:  The
fish'n'chips, sausages, oat biscuits, porridge, and stovied tatties were
quite lovely -- and I'm sure my arteries will forgive me eventually.

I didn't even mind the haggis.

  ("Fair fa' yer honest, sonsie face,
  Great chieftain o' the pudden race!")

My wife and I eschewed (not chewed) the fried Mars bars(!), and ditto
the deep-fried pizzas.

Pizza, now:  Historical oddities in Italy (and Greek-settled
pre-classical Italy) notwithstanding, one thinks of pizza as an idea
exported from the Little Italy neighbourhood of lower Manhattan.  One
does not associate it with northern Europe.  You would hardly, for
example, picture Robert the Bruce tossing a wad of pizza dough.

And yet, you could hardly throw a rock in Glasgow and not hit two or
three pizza parlours.  It was very strange.  

You got the feeling that it was a prerequisite offering for any sort of
restaurant:  You saw stores offering "PIZZA!, and hummus, shwarma, and
babaganoush",  "PIZZA!, and fish and chips", and "PIZZA SUPPER!" (fried
chips served with a frozen pizza that that has been defrosted and then
deep fried).

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Cheers,             
Rick Moen                 Support your local medical examiner:  Die strangely.
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