to feel a bit sorry for people who...

[WilheminaAteHer]

...insist, without irony, that there's only one way to do certain things (i.e. THEIR way)?

I was reading an online recipe for choccy brownies and someone contributed a post saying in all seriousness that we Brits had the wrong idea because the ONLY way brownies should taste was, god, I don't know, crumbly instead of fudgy or summat. WTF? If they taste good, who cares?

Similarly a friend of mine once admonished me for drinking my Rooibos tea with milk, saying: "you're not supposed to drink it with milk!" Huh? Why should there be a rule for how to drink tea? And why should it matter to her how I drink it?

Actually, come to think of it these people always seem insistent about inconsequential things that really shouldn't matter to them in the slightest.

Bless.

oooh I'm dribbling and endangering my keyboard. I used to butter the bread and then stick it in the toaster as a child. Great for about a week until a small fat fire engulfed the toaster and half a small section of my parents' kitchen

Never forgotten how good it was but strangely didn't twig about making it under the grill

It is good, isn't it? We called it fried bread, and I had no idea there was another kind of actually fried bread for years.

YANBU

See also: 'thou shalt remove the tea bag from cup before adding milk'. My brother had a right little bitch fit about this. Just frigin' drink it, it tastes the same!

However, just to add: Down with the Cornish, their pixies and revolting ways to eat a scone! Let's grab our pitch forks and run to the boarders to wage war!

I'm dry wretching at the thought of Rooibos tea and soya milk.

Yes! Lavender! Let us chop down the Tamar bridge and let Cornwall float off into the atlantic.

Bloody cornwall.

I feel homicidal whenever I see cornish clotted cream. It's from Devon, I tell 'ee.

Scones are Scottish

No they are NOT. You lot have got haggis and edinburgh rock. Leave scones to us, thanks.

Pfft. How do you suppose scones and clotted cream ever met?

sorry - but I do agree that Scones are Scottish.

Oh all right then

But clotted cream is ours (as are the pixies)

I always remember a very neat and tidy girl I knew slightly coming up to me unprompted when I was 19 and saying in a very surprised voice:

"Your earrings don't match" as if I might have put them in by accident and she were pointing out a mistake. I was wearing lots of different earrings in my ears which had uneven numbers of piercings anyway. I had to ask her to repeat a couple of times before I understood that she genuinely couldn't see why anyone would wear anything other than a pair of matching earrings.

Having said that, I'm old now and I do wear earrings which loosely match for work these days rather than skull and crossbones + iguana + smiley face....

It really does my head in when you're following a recipe, and they use the expression 'if liked' i.e 'sprinkle a little more sugar on top of the fruit pie, if liked'
Or add more chilli flakes/chocolate chips/herbs etc to taste...
Thanks for your permission.
And when recipes for casseroles/stews have a smug little one-liner at the end
Serve with french bread/baked potato/rice
Thanks, what am I some kind of moron? I would never have thought of that...

dh leaves the bag in to add milk to tea. it does not taste the same. he used to make a decent cup of tea but has developed this annoying habit lately.

he he i live right on the tamar and eat lots of clotted cream. i appreciate there are lots of debates about who invented it. that and the pasty. i might love pasties even more