Mr. GOH! Posted July 5, 2017 Report Share Posted July 5, 2017 Except that it is known as "July 4th" or even "July four" to many Americans. I have no idea why the US insists on switching the day and the month and will not defend the practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Even the film is called "Born on the 4th of July". In other news, you don't have egg cups? If not, how do you do this? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 America doesn't have eggs and soldiers? but they love the military. (I've a feeling America is still in the "eggs are bad for you" food advice stuff). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 I know the small sample set of Americans I have met tend to hate yolks (which is weird by the way, the yolk is the flavoursome bit). To the point where they order an "egg white omlette" (which just looks like the white bit of a fried egg) and will remove the yolk from a hard boiled egg (which is just way to much effort to ruin a decent egg). Perhaps they do not even know the joys of soft boiling and egg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Well the thread covering the revelation has popped up in my Twitter and it seems soft boiled egg just isn't a thing (so I guess they just have "boiled egg" as I'd think you'd go "why is this hard, is there a soft boiled option?". American food is weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Americans are aware of soft-boiled eggs, we just don't eat them. Â Thus we still call hard-boiled eggs "hard-boiled eggs". Â The closest thing to a soft-boiled egg that I've eaten/seen eaten IRL is an over-easy/sunny-side-up fried egg. Also, people don't eat egg white omelettes because they think they taste good, they eat them because it's supposed to be healthier or something (I know, it's dumb). Â I also agree that people who remove the yolk from their hard-boiled eggs are crazy. Final note, we are not still on the "eggs are bad for you" food advice from people who know what they're talking about, but people are dumb and so they still believe food advice from like the 70's before we knew that there was more than one kind of cholesterol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Ethan again generalizes his experience amongst the barbarian tribes of Kansas and Texas to all Americans and gets it wrong. We definitely have egg cups in the USA and people eat soft-boiled eggs here.  Soft-boiled or poached eggs are also popular in a variety of dishes in areas of America with learned people of culture and taste. I mean, one of America's signature breakfast dishes, eggs benedict, is sometimes made with soft-boiled eggs (although poached eggs are superior). People here tend to like their bread and runny yolks done via fried eggs on toast rather than eggs and soldiers, though; frying an egg is much faster and less finicky than soft-boiling or poaching (which are easy, I know, but frying is even easier and Americans love fried shit). The egg white thing has more to do with unjustified panic about the cholesterol in egg yolks, as well as the fact that egg whites have fewer calories. It's silly, and egg yolks are the best. Unfortunately, the myths about egg yolks being less healthy have had staying power, although most experts now will tell you eggs are healthy, especially when they're cooked without unhealthy oils. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 10, 2017 Report Share Posted July 10, 2017 Ah yes, I forgot about poached eggs. Â That is actually probably the closest thing I've had to a soft-boiled egg. 1 hour ago, Mr. GOH! said: most experts now will tell you eggs are healthy, especially when they're cooked without unhealthy oils. Shit, so you're telling me frying my eggs in bacon grease makes them bad for me?! *Edit - Also, GOH's actually partially right, America is a big place with lots of subcultures, so when I talk about the way Americans do things it's probably best to just take that as "Americans who live between the Mississippi and the Rockies". Â Although in my defense I've never even seen egg cups used in American media, only ever in British media. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 11, 2017 Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 I haven't seen one used in US media from the past 40 or so years, either. But I've known folks in the Midwest who own and use egg cups. Mostly I've seen them used in restaurants, though. Frying eggs in bacon grease is the correct way to cook them, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 11, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2017 This has progressed and now Americans are onto our decorative egg holders. But yes we fry eggs in bacon grease, along with the rest of the meal, as already covered. Also I like in the "Egg history" bit of the "Go To Work On An Egg" site features a bit on Edwina Curie sparking a 60% drop in sales over salmonella scare (she's always been a bit of a prime Tory type, continues to be one on Twitter). Nothing that I particularly came for but a bit that lodged in my mind recently was before Spider-Man was a sort of pre-roll advert on the Dell product placement. Also I think the title for this sucks more than we "suck" on product placement, but explains stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 12, 2017 Report Share Posted July 12, 2017 Yeah, an odd choice of word. We don't suck at it, we just don't do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2017 This was posted as "I divorce her, right?" on reddit and everyone seemed to be like "yeah" n such until I came across a fellow brit equally confused as I was (I'm thinking "there's nothing hugely wrong with paper plates"). Turns out this is an uncommon way to cut a sandwich in half, whereas here you'd not really think much different. Sometimes diagonal if you want to be fancy (most store bought sandwiches are diagonal, though usually the "finest" n equiv is cut like above). And for parties you'd cut into triangles. Also to add in here, what you guys call a "grilled cheese sandwich" we just call a "toastie" so hows that for saving on letters. Even have a machine for making them:Â http://www.wilko.com/grills+sandwich-makers/wilko-sandwich-toaster-4-slice-black/invt/0316233 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Diagonal is the standard way to cut it.  If for some reason you are going to cut it in half straight across, you would do it crosswise to the way it's cut there, from the top of the loaf to the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 That's how I've cut them when doing sandwiches to fit in a lunchbox. Never figured it made that much of a difference. Is... is that why I'm not married? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 I can't pretend to have ever given any thought to this. As others have said, I don't even cut sammiches. I just eat them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Yeah, typically I wouldn't cut it at all either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 31, 2017 Report Share Posted July 31, 2017 Wimpy sammies with store-bought bread do not need to be cut. But when you use real bread, like hoagies or rolls or bagels, you just cut straight across (and into the hoagie or roll, so you have a place to put the meat and stuff). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Do you lot actually call Sausage Dogs (Dachshunds) Wiener Dogs? Â via Ethan's twitter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Vulgar Americans do. Those of us with class call them dachshunds or doxies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2018 Report Share Posted January 3, 2018 Yeah, wiener dog is the very informal name for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Do you call anything "sausages" or are all vaguely cylindrical pork products called "wieners"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 8, 2018 Report Share Posted January 8, 2018 Only hot dogs are called wieners. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 This was linked and I watched and it threw me as it wasn't the tones of Tony Hirst In UK How It's Made is redubbed Same with Mythbusters. I think part of it is mainly because these kinds of shows have a lot of words and measurements that do differ across the pond (e.g chips/crisps). Â Anywho: Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 It's weird when people say they've read 20 books, via audible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 Lawyers vs Lawyers edition: Â Do you pronounce Roe v Wade as "Roe vee Wade"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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