Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

Dan (yl-ruil)
> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > And Rosta wrote:
> >
> > > In British humorous cliche, Belgium is the paradigm example of the place
> > > nothing and noone remarkable comes from, except for chips eaten with
> > > mayo.
> >
> > A disgusting habit, indeed.  Chips were meant by God to be eaten with
> > salt, and nothing else.
>
> !!Englishman on the warpath alert!!
> I trust you know that chips are what you get at Fish 'n' Chip Shops and are
> sometimes called by poor benighted schismatics "fries". Personally, I like
> my chips with brown sauce.
> Crisps are what come in packets with labels like "Ready Salted" or "Salt and
> Vinegar".
I thought this was one of the brit/US differences that absolutely everyone
knows, along with jelly/jam, sidewalk/pavement, trunk/boot, fender/bumper,
rubber, fanny, etc. etc., and that brits/USans pretend to misunderstand each
other about.

> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > As for "brown sauce", it seems to be still true that the English have 365
> > religions and only one sauce.  You may perhaps find two or three, but this
> > does not refute my general assertion.
>
> Four, actually: red sauce (ketchup) brown sauce, curry sauce and salad cream
> (I know, I'm pushing it- make that three. I give in.)
When I was a student in Cambridge we were more sophisticated than this: one
of my flatmates made thousand island dressing.
This was made from artfully blending tomato ketchup and salad cream.

--And.