"meal assembly centers"(sic). the bloody americans

[Senoracod]

ill give it 6 months till oen starts here

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oh ye swe do

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'St. Patty’s Irish Pot Roast
Celebrate the wee bit of Irish in us all with this delicious St. Patty’s Day dinner the whole family is sure to enjoy. '

Oh dear

my friend in the US sometimes uses these and they are bloody expensive in my humble opinion.

I used to pick up something similar in my single days when coming home late from work from Waterloo Station. I have always hated cooking but absolutely love eating hence I liked the fact that it was a cooked meal - well it was when I had cooked it unlike the ready stuff I would have eaten otherwise with none of the hassle.

In my further defence - other than being lazy - I was working 12 hr days (excluding the 2 hr commute) 6-7 days a week so shopping/cooking were way down low on my list of priotrities in those days.

I completely admit it is outrageous though and REALLY expensive. Still in those days I did have money to burn.

Cod--

Americans don't say herb because, well, as a culture we've found out that the world doesn't stop because of the omission of frivolous extra letters and sounds. Since we don't take the time to pronounce the h, add all those extra u's in words they don't belong (ie color, neighbor) stick r's in words where they don't belong (ass has a much better ring than arse, don't you agree?) or pedantically cross our 7's and our z's we have managed to come up with ways to save our valuable time. This time-saving way of ours has, in turn, afforded us the opportunity to come up with wonderful ideas like expensive dinner-assembling services that don't even cook the meals for you. What would the world do without a service like that???????

colinandcaitlinsmummy
explain, if you can, the inexplicable way you pronounce aluminium
hmmmmm?

Leaping Salmon were bought by Threshers iirc. I don't think it's a bad idea but I wouldn't pay for it, obv, I am capable of shopping and cooking.

I'm sorry but colinandcaitlinsmommy, but arse is one of the very finest words we have and ass doesn't even come close.

This could just be my cold fuddled brain talking but ... I don't get it?!

So let me get this straight - you still have to prepare the damn stuff AND cook it yourself, you pay over the odds for the ingredients and somehow this helps you out?! HOW?!

yes I;m with spidermama on the arse thing
fabulous word
I would be virtually mute without it

And, we don't cross our '7's or 'z's.

lol

Look we could argue until the cows came home about how Americans say this and Brits say that.
I will just mention, though, risotto
is not riz-oh-toe
It just isn't.

althoguh normally americasn d o pronounce italina names beter
LOVE hearing americans trying tos oudn swanky speaking french
cracks me right up

oh and oregano
they say O-REG-an-o
looooodicrous
cod I used to know an American called Desjardins
pronounced
well you can imagine

Harpsichordcarrier- It is pronounced uh-loom-in-um. Not at all inexplicable.

Some of you do cross 7's and z's, I have proof of it sitting in my house.

That was a tongue in cheek post. For the record, I cross my 7's and z's and have done so since 3rd grade. (I thought I was so "cool" for doing so, and then I just got used to it.) And I think the extra u's in words actually make them look nicer. I can't wrap my head around the word arse, though.

How exactly is risotto pronounced then?

If you want to see a real argument on the pronunciation of words, just listen in while DH and I have a go over the pronunciation of the word cement. Oh the hours of our life we have wasted on that one.

yes but colinandcaitlinsmommy, have a look how aluminium is spelt
you're saying it wrong!

my friend's (british) dh now says ah loom in um

when we speak on hte phone and she talks about candy, the yard, drugstore, etc etc I insist she speaks English as it just doesnt sound right with a brummie accent

Will just say that Americans do pronounce thing weirdly but oregano is pronounced much closer to the way italians pronounce it than it is in Britain and since it is spelt the same I have to say the Americans probably have it right there.

However - what is up with they way they say
'I could care less'.

When living in the US this used to really annoy me. What they meant to say was ' I couldn't care less'.

I am the world's most lazy person and am right up there with saving time and all that but if you change the meaning of the sentence by dropping one letter and an appostrophe - then don't do it -The time saved is really not worth it.

HC - they spell it differently to us. I think the way they spell it is Aluminum, without the second 'i', so that would not be wrong really. Just another potay-toe/po-tah-to argument.

I like the 'filay' steaks that they serve though!

Re the missing h in herb - according to Simon in I Capture the Castle, "erb" would have arrived in America with the Pilgrim Fathers and Shakespeare probably said it like that.

(I wonder how he'd know though...?)

(And basil is pronounced bay-sil you know )

(And then there's "beef with au jus"...)

Another vote for arse here. Sounds even better coming from Father Jack.

But yes to crossed 7s. FWIW I've written z's like a back-to-front E falling off the page since I met an American in Yugoslavia (because I thought it looked cool).

CandCmommy - where is your DH from?

Asshole is a much better word for a pillock than arsehole (though I agree that arse is better than ass).

How did this thread turn into an Ameringlish analysis?

ah wellthen Dior they spell it wrong too, then
I think it's Stephen Fry who says - "we gave you a language: kindly use it..."

Oh, and I had an American lady on the phone the other day who said her name was something that sounded like Door-tea - when I asked her to spell it it turned out to be Doherty!