Thursday, May 31
Lovely kind American folk ...
... ta for the head's up on town cars. Now all I need to know is what on earth are "cooties"? And when you say "jelly" do you actually mean jam?
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I used to live in the US - you need to watch more lame sitcoms ;)
Cooties are nits.
Jelly is indeed jam.
I love towncars ;)
Something else I can help you with ? ;)
Anyone you don't like has cooties.
yep, cooties are 'boy germs' and 'girl germs'. if you touch someone who you decree has 'cooties' you run like hell.
one would never play kiss-chasie, for example, with anyone who had cooties (boy germs). if one did, and one was caught, one would run away very fast and make a big fuss and wash one's hands and all that.
the jelly thing still gets me.
i understand jelly to be jam without the fruity bits.
jelly = conserve. it's squishy and mooshy but not chunky.
and by the way, americans really do eat 'jelly and peanut butter' sandwiches. i haven't seen it done yet. when i do, i think i'll have to politely leave the room.
Oh no, caw, you must try a pb&j sammich. It is surprisingly delicious. Now I'm from Italy (naturalize), so I know from good food, and I too thought, eewwww, pb&j? Gross. Then I tried it. It is super satisfying, instant comfort food. And as food that fills you up and lasts for hours, it can't be beat.
Caw gets it mostly right. "Boy germs," etc.
Jelly, too. Gets that right. Very good.
But -- it's not jelly and peanut butter sandwiches. Never. It's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
(Like spaghetti and meatballs. Never meatballs and spaghetti.)
Language is funny. Food language, especially.
I hate jelly. I am a jam man.
I also hate when people use the words jelly and jam interchangably. My wife does this (probably because she's not from America).
It's frustrating.
crikey, ta all, this has been a great help, I feel like I'm learning a whole new language (indeed, I am, someone famous once said the English & the Americans were a people divided by a common language).
"England and America are two countries divided by a common language" - it was George Bernard Shaw ;o)
Don't ask me why I know, it dredged itself up from the dross in my head. I reckon I could have been a brain surgeon if my head wasn't so full of this stuff... hey ho!
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