ES came out and visited for a week, followed by SS for a week. I have visited an amazing number of museums, pubs, parks, and sites. Scott has a good roundup of his trip here. I finally posted more pictures to Flickr as well.
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A wonderful British phrase, but with a slightly gruesome background.
A knacker is a person in the trade of rendering animals that are unfit for human consumption, such as work horses that have died in harness or are too tired to work any more.
See also: Joe Bloggs, Tea, and John Hancock (from separate but similar conversations).
I’m not sure from where I first found this, but there is fantastic grilled cheese at Borough Market. Delicious.
When you order a sandwich, they ask if you’d like salad on it, by which they mean lettuce, tomato, cucumbers, &c.
Today was the first (of many, I’m sure) days about the mirror world and what things look different.
Americans have jelly. The British have jelly, and the equivalent is American Jello (tm, patent pending, yada yada yada) — often clear, depending on flavor, but generally jiggly. There is no such thing as Peanut Butter & Jelly in England. Peanut Butter is a dish best served on it’s own (by spoon or on toast), although there was some interest in trying Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches, from which PB&J can’t be too far off. Brits make a candy called Jelly Babies that is Jelly wrapped in a casing, but “it’s so small that even with the casing removed, it probably wouldn’t jiggle.”
We have Reese’s Peanut Butter cups, which sound disgusting to two out of three Brits polled (”Really? A glob of Peanut Butter encased in chocolate?” Maybe it was my poor description.). At the theater, PH mentioned something that sounded like “Wine Gums,” a type of gummy candy. At first I thought he was making a joke about the waspy (an Americanism, I know) type seated in front of us (”You have RingWorms in the States, right?” he said, frowning at the thoroughly gentrified couple in front of us). I asked if the candy was more like a Swedish Fish, to which he could not respond, as Swedish Fish do not exist in this upside down world.
HobNobs are a type of biscuit, but like many English biscuits, these do not resemble the light and fluffy biscuits of American biscuits and gravy. Instead, these are more like hard cookies. “Chocolate HobNobs are divine.” There are, apparently, biscuits and cheese in England, which is “more of a savory biscuit,” but without firsthand experience, I can’t yet report.
Can somebody take a picture of a candy display in America and post it?
Rolls Royce is stamped in white on the blue engines on my British Airways Boeing 747 leaving SFO. Did they come here on container ships from England to Seattle? — First by truck on the left side of the road; onto a container ship that’s been around the world 10s of times; into international waters, a US harbor, and finally to trucks driven on the right side of the road. Do airplanes land on the opposite side of the runway in England?
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