Re: OT: Two countries separated by a common language

I find this too irresistable a topic - for me:

muffins are light cake-like things, often sold with chocolate or fruit or
cheese mixed in, generally baked in flat trays with cup-cake-sized
indentations;

scones are heavier, bread-like things, often sold with either cheese or dates
or sultanas mixed in, generally baked on top of flat trays;

biscuits are sweetened flour mixtures, sometimes with chocolate or peanuts of
suchlike mixed in, baked on top of trays;

slices are sweetened flour mixtures, baked in a hollow tray and generally with
a sweetened topping - sometimes they may be flaky and soft with a fruit
filling - eg, apple-crumble style, other times they may be harder, eg ginger
slices.

Now that's an interesting challenge - to come up with an entire cuisine
yourself for the inhabitants of at least a small part of your world ...

I can't do it for Lakhabrech, because as Hyena-modified humans they most often
don't bother with cooking, it being mostly a special touch between the sexes
to influence choice or reinforce it.

Ineya Khara-Ansha being the stock from which Lakhabrech derive, they don't
have much use for it either.

Rakhebuitya, as they are highly assimilable to the Centauri human norm, being
omnivorous a la Ursus the bear, actually do have a cuisine - but I don't know
how many people would care to partake of it - stewed grasses feature quite
highly on the menu for some reason, and they are very, very particular about
which grasses to get just the right flavour; then there's the bark, which is
their standard starvation diet.  And a wide variety of small prey - vermin -
they make a very tasty roast rat, stuffed with grasses and other herbs, and
fish, most often - if not eaten raw - covered in mud and baked on a fire.
How much care is taken in preparation depends on the cook.

Wesley Parish

On Saturday 17 May 2003 05:12 am, you wrote:
> "Douglas Koller, Latin & French" wrote:
> > David asks:
> > >Just checking. Scones are the same thing in both countries, right?
> >
> > In everyday parlance, "scone" for me is just a highfalutin word for
> > an "English muffin" (so you can charge an extra dollar for it at a
> > restaurant brunch). Technically, though, scones seem denser somehow.
> > Perhaps less baking powder?/soda?. Too, while there are English
> > muffins with raisins therein, it seems to me you can more easily get
> > away with currants or raisins in a scone. And we say /skon/, not
> > /skOn/. Other than that, yeah, they're identical.
> >
> > Kou
>
> There's an American woman living here in Peru who became famous as one
> of the assistants of the presenter of a tv show which ran for many
> years. She now has a business making English muffins. Her muffins at
> least are different from English scones. (shape, size, flavour)
>
> /skon/ you don't quite diphthongise your long "o's"?
> In England /skQn/ /skOn/ and some people have /sk@Un/
>
> I don't suppose you have a tradition of eating them with jam and whipped
> or clotted cream on top, do you?
>
> David Barrow
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Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
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