American Readers(and others too) - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

mark12_30 · 03-11-2005, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TomBrady12

I think up he-ah in the Noth, up he-ah in Waldo County Maine, we ah probibly the closest Americans to the Brits in the Country...Ayup

As long as y'don't go too fah nothwest. Odd folk thataway. But not as odd as them newcomahs down by th' border. Yessuh. City folk. Lost in the Shiyah.

Quote:

Ohhh....another thing I might envision is brown bread, which, up here at least, is a traditional saturday night fixture to go along side baked beans.

'Specially at pot luck suppahs. To be follow'd by Strahberry rubahb pie. Think Bilbo might like some?

Quote:

Anyway, all i really know is the hobbit makes me hungry!

Pass the brown bread. All them dwarves'll take some.

And let's give Bilbo some o' that strahberry rubahb, and watch his face.

Morai · 03-12-2005, 12:40 PM

Quote:

We have rice cakes in the UK too. They are much beloved of women who sit and eat them at their desks with a look of pure disgust on their faces, and when you ask them what's the matter with their food they say "Ugh, I'm eating rice cakes, they taste horrible and dry, but they are low fat!." I like them myself, especially with tuna on them, and I always think they smell of struck matches.

I wouldn't say struck matches, more like the taste and smell of stale cardboard.

Of course, I'm pretty sure good ole Sam Gamgee could make them taste better.

Quote:

Here's another cake question: Is "pound cake" the same all over? What about shortcake (as in strawberry)? Is there such a thing? We always use pound cake for strawberry shortcake - now that this thread has me thinking, it sounds strange.

I can't say I ever heard or 'pound cake', though I've eaten my mum's delicious strawberry short cake. The cake itself reminds me of 'angel-food cake' (flavored with vanilla, while 'devils food cake' is rich with chocolate) then the cool whip and jucy strawberries.

mark12_30 · 03-12-2005, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morai

...strawberry short cake. The cake itself reminds me of 'angel-food cake' (flavored with vanilla, while 'devils food cake' is rich with chocolate) then the cool whip and jucy strawberries.

We usually used angelfood cake with strawberries. Betcha hobbits would love that.

Estelyn Telcontar · 03-12-2005, 01:51 PM

Special praise goes to mark/Helen for her valiant attempts to keep her posts Tolkien-related!! Let her serve as a shining example to all who post here!

Feanor of the Peredhil · 03-12-2005, 06:40 PM

I always pictured cram as rice cakes.

Attend: hard (with a rather styrofoam-esque texture), dry, somewhat tasteless, lasts forever.

Picture, if you will, 13 dwarves and an unlucky hobbit living on naught but rice cakes.

Fea

Elennar Starfire · 03-13-2005, 12:58 PM

Except isn't cram supposed to be very filling? Because I could eat rice cakes all day and still be hungry (if I could stand the taste, that it).

Celebuial · 03-14-2005, 06:36 AM

I like rice cakes!!! Well Snack-a-Jacks at any rate.... I can't imagine Hobbits enjoying them though, although they could eat them allday without getting full. I s'pose that that would take the fun out of eating though...

I wonder if there is the same kind of divide between The Four Farthings with food? And what about words (just the other day I came across the word "coignes" and was assured that it referred to the British word "quoins"!)?

03-12-2005, 01:51 PM	#4
Estelyn Telcontar Princess of Skwerlz Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: where the Sea is eastwards (WtR: 6060 miles) Posts: 7,500	Special praise goes to mark/Helen for her valiant attempts to keep her posts Tolkien-related!! Let her serve as a shining example to all who post here! __________________ 'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth...'

03-12-2005, 06:40 PM	#5
Feanor of the Peredhil La Belle Dame sans Merci Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: perpetual uncertainty Posts: 5,517	I always pictured cram as rice cakes. Attend: hard (with a rather styrofoam-esque texture), dry, somewhat tasteless, lasts forever. Picture, if you will, 13 dwarves and an unlucky hobbit living on naught but rice cakes. Fea __________________ peace

03-13-2005, 12:58 PM	#6
Elennar Starfire Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2003 Location: Nowhere...now here Posts: 952	Except isn't cram supposed to be very filling? Because I could eat rice cakes all day and still be hungry (if I could stand the taste, that it). __________________ Don't let me die!

03-14-2005, 06:36 AM	#7
Celebuial Wight Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Cardiff during term time/Leicester in the holl's Posts: 129	I like rice cakes!!! Well Snack-a-Jacks at any rate.... I can't imagine Hobbits enjoying them though, although they could eat them allday without getting full. I s'pose that that would take the fun out of eating though... I wonder if there is the same kind of divide between The Four Farthings with food? And what about words (just the other day I came across the word "coignes" and was assured that it referred to the British word "quoins"!)? __________________ Ú cilith ‘war. Ú men ‘war. Boe min mebi. Boe min bango.

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Switch to Linear Mode Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode