Well candy canes are a hard candy that you would suck on. As for flavors
they tend to come in a variety. The most common is peppermint but I've
also had chocolate.
But thou must!
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From: dark
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2012 12:32 PM
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindgameware
Hi Tom.
interesting, I actually didn't know in America "use the toilet" would be
considdered a vulgar expression. There are of course less polite ways of
referring to the toilet, such as the bog, the crapper, the shithole, or in
scotland the cludgy, but there is nothing at all wrong with "toilet" at
all,
and if you did! refer to it as say the lady's or the gents (short for
gentlemen's sinse the term mens room never existed here either), most
people
would assume you were being overly dainty or trying to be specifically
upper
class.
Interestingly enough though, even in the British editions of harry potter,
Jk rowling still occasionally refers to "the bathroom" though she also
uses
loo or toilet as well. I'm not sure if this was either a picked up
Americanism on her part, or because like a lot of large institutions she
imagined hogwarts having combined toilet and bathroom facilities, though
she
never mentions there being a bath in moaning murtle's toilet or there
being
a toilet in the prefect's bathroom so on this I'm not sure.
As to the hole subject of sweets, I've seen! candy canes in American
programs, but what they taste like or are composed of I have no idea.
I suspect we do have soemthing similar to the sour patches you mention,
sinse we do have a lot of what we'd call jellies, such as wine gums,
harribo
etc, some of which can be pretty sour and chewy, though they wouldn't
really
be distinguished with a universal name like sour patches.
Chocolate I can give you a hole discourse on sinse like coffee it's
something I''m a little serious about. I have no idea what Us chocolate is
like at all or what the differences are precisely, but I do know a lot of
Uk
chocolate has far too little coco, --- especially those manufactured mars,
neslay, which is precisely why I myself only tend to buy chocolate that
has
a whacking great coco percentage and is usually german or swiss and bought
from specialist shops.
I do know a lot of things in the Us contain a lot more corn syrup,
including
things like bread and tomatoe ketchup, which thus makes them often taste
quite sweet to people who are used to the British versions, ---- indeed a
friend of mine who frequently goes to the states for his job says this
drives him absolutely up the wall, buying a savory sandwich and finding it
tastes to him like it's been made with slices of cake rather than bread.
As to religion, well over here fundamentalism is much more the exception
than the rule and you would be thought of as rather nuts if you had such
beliefs, and probably avoided.
When I was attending church each week, the idea of the vicar shouting at
the
congrigation, going on a wrant about hell and demons or anything like that
would be quite unthinkable, indeed outside of bible readings I only ever
remember "hell" being mentioned as separation from god, or as a state of
mind, and demons never mentioned at all.
likewise, the idea of someone actually condemning! others in a religious
service, ---- though it might happen with some fundamentalist fringe
groups
would be very much frowned upon over here.
i think the statement about people not talking about religion is slightly
incorrect, or may be on the part of bias from the author, though then
again
as a philosophy student I tend to find I get into discussions with people
about religion anyway. I will say though that it's far less likely in such
discussions to run into someone who won't be to a degree accepting, though
of course it does happen.
Just as in many parts of the world the British are thought of as up tite,
obsessed with tradition and incapable of showing emotion, over here a
common
sterriotype about americans is that Americans are loud, over emotional and
do things to excess.
of course, this is a sterriotype and so not true of any individual
american,
but just like some other sterriotypical beliefs about nations, for
instance
that germans are very good at organizing or that Japanese are very polite,
there may be a grane of truth in such beliefs as they apply to the over
all
spirit of a culture, just as it is true that displays of emotion, or
indeed
affection are still slightly discouraged in Britain, indeed when I
studdied
sartre's theory of emotions which stated that inner states of emotions
were
entirely characterized and subordinated to the outward actions of the
body,
and of society's interactions with the body, the lecturer noted that
Sartre
was of course french, where emotions were much more physically expressed,
and the idea of someone say feeling intensive joy or disgust but not
reacting physically would not be one that would occur to Sartre.
Before however this gets too far into a social and existential analysis
I'd
better stop as that deffinately! goes beyond the bounds of what should be
on
the list, indeed perhaps we should discuss this privately off list.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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