Thanks for the welcome. 
I didn’t discover the Burwell Bash until rather too late this year, but I’m seriously considering it for next. It’d be easier if the rest of the family were musical (but then I’d need to be rich!).
- Stephen
It’s all the more disgusting if it’s not toasted 
Ok, maybe this isn’t the thread to bash British Cuisine.
And from newbie to newbie: welcome!
What is a “sarnie”? I don’t think this was mentioned on any of the food threads.
I’m not English but I like Marmite and I have an uncontrollable urge to drive down the left side of the road. Do you think it’s a genetic hint at my lineage?
Poutine is French Canadian…reputed to taste especially good in a styrofoam bowl :roll: . En autre mots - it ain’t English.
A sarnie is one of a selection of British words for two slices of bread with something in the middle…Toast and marmite goes especially well with a couple of freerange boiled eggs from our own chickens and a glass of fresh orange juice.
So…where to next on this thread…
Trisha
thinks Any juicy stories involving MPs, fruit and/or leather lately?
And if you toast that sarnie, it can be called a toastie. Cheese toasties are good, spam toasties maybe less popular these days.
Stephen, I’ll give you a report on the Bash when I get back - it looks like a heap of musical fun & we might even have good weather. The whistle/flute classes filled early this year, I was lucky that some kind soul here woke me up to it just when I was wondering what holiday stuff to do this year.
Where to indeed.
I once worked with an English guy. We were fairly good friends but one time we had a disagreement and I likened him to George III. He got real mad. Any idea why he would have gotten so riled over it? I figured it was either a personal thing or a general English thing but never knew exactly. I kind of like my G3 avatar but I wouldn’t want it to cause an international incident.
Now I’ve seen some interesting Canadian posts on this thread. I’d just like to say that as a long time card holding member of the Possum Lodge I have genuine empathy with the Canucks here on this board. Living so close to the US and all must be a never ending source of amusement. However while Canadians may joke around about Americans and appear, on the surface, to be real nice and friendly, we know they are infiltrating the very fabric of US society. The entertainment industry!!! Just watch the movie Canadian Bacon to see the real truth about Canadian perfidity. 
Surely there’s some malign antipodean etymological force at work here?
I blame Neighbours.
Speaking of Canadian perfidy, check out this site:
http://www.standonguard.com/index2.html
Through politeness and order, Canada wants to rule the world!
Mike
Check with your grandma’s. They would know. Maybe your sister ain’t your sister and you can marry her, too.
(…) but I like Marmite
Be careful; you may be developing a Lime Syndrome. Go on emergency to the vet if you next detect a taste for Bovril. Or warmed Guinness with clover, nutmeg, cinnamon. You’d end up with steak-and-kidney 3.14159 (btw Martin IS a kidney-pie!) and calling Frenchmen wogs, while they taunt you knnniggget. It’s a terrible way to go.
Pie and mushy peas? (gag!)
Or… Jellied eels (barf!)
Whelks on the seafront at Yarmouth (beurk!)
Oop north: the magnficent chip butty! (Yum)
Farrrther norrth: meaty pieces and jelly pieces (aye, really)
And, throughout the bounds of the Land of 'Ope and Glory (click the picture for a truly revolting display)…
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Steve
Englishman when it suits me (not very often)
You liken an Englishman to a German and wonder why he gets mad? 
Speaking of Canadian perfidy, check out this site:
http://www.standonguard.com/index2.html
Through politeness and order, Canada wants to rule the world!
Mike
I knew it. That means we’ll have to get our milk from giant platic bags and buy gas by the liter (or litre).
We’d have to start saying “aboot” and “eh”. Clearly the UP of Michigan and Northern Minnesota have already been overrun doncha know 'eh.
Will we still have to pay import duty on Canadian beer?
Will Red Green be military governor of zone XII?
Thanks Bloom but Queen Victoria was a cousin to the Kaiser and they liked her.
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Yes, and he will control the world’s supply of duct tape! 
But he’s right you know. Duct tape does fix everything. 
MUSHY PEAS, the ‘Guacamole’ of the North! even better, the marvelous PEASE PUDDING!(yum!)- and while we’re on the subject of great British ‘delicacies’ how about PROPER ENGLISH mustard(as in 'Coleman’s),lets have none of this wimpy American,French or German yellow ‘stuff’.
Oh yes- ‘food of the Gods’ FISH AND CHIPS!
All washed down with N’yucky Brown I dare say Think I’ll stick with the guacamole. Erm, which gods have endorsed fish and chips
Trisha
HARI RAMsden?
And there’s even one in Shrewsbury… 
Trisha
You have to have Brit. in there somewhere to enjoy “Marmite” A sarnie is what you would put “Marmite” in between, otherwise known as a “Buttie” however a bacon buttie takes a lot of beating. Oh yeah! I’m a Brit! We eat with a knife in our right hand and a fork in our left hand, (even my Canadian born children ) while playing a penny whistle. It’s been 39 years but I think I have almost got the right hand drive bit down pat, untill I turn a corner that is.