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The old pub now has less than 10 posts to go, so I thought I'd start a new one. The old one can be found here

This is a place for feminist pom pom waving and talking about stuff which might not need a thread for itself.

Fill your boots.

It's in In the News Penguin about the woman beheaded yesterday.

Thanks. Might read later if I feel strong....

Your story sounds very familiar from when I googled a diy problem a while back.

Sorry to derail but apparently I am an "Agenda Poster". I knew I should have kept my mouth shut about the Eton Mess.

Buffy Let's hear it for agendas!

I think I know the thread you mean Flora and it's why I never respond to male initiated thread in Relationships. There is invariably an agenda and it isn't from the posters responding

Tell us more about the Eton mess

I know scallops I usually avoid Relationships altogether but it came up in Active and I got sucked in. Now someone is saying the "We believe you" campaign should apply to men too! Sheesh!

Eton Mess was on a thread on Chat about English desserts for someone from the US. There were a surprising number of FWR regulars spouting their dessert agendas on that thread.

I am on the Eton Mess thread. Mainly because I wanted to steer people away from trying to serve a steamed pudding to a American. There's a reason we don't have Christmas pudding here.

Why don't Americans like steamed puddings?

I mean, I get that they aren't part of the American tradition, but is that a problem? Isn't it just like us, say, being served some traditional dishes from southern States?

I clicked on that thread briefly, and am obviously under-educated in puddings because I saw apple pie called political (was that you Scones) and I have no idea how apple pie could be political. Popular in the US so not a great choice for 'showing our cuisine' I get.

I also notice that the old British/English thing managed to kick off.

I saw you Scone Americans don't seem to like stodge in pudding form. Maybe if it was deep fried? Hmmm, deep fried Christmas pudding.... Actually we Scots are known to fry a bit of clootie dumpling for breakfast so I'm not casting stones here.

They don't like stodge? But, but, they serve those doughnuts that are stodge personified.

I am a simple soul and easily confused today.

The apple pie thing was that someone suggested serving apple pie because she/he hated the expression "American as apple pie." I assumed that would be to make the point to the American guest that he and his entire nation were in the wrong for ever uttering such an expression.

We love stodge, it's just that desserts cooked with water steam are not really very popular here and I don't know anyone who likes steamed fruit puddings, if they have ever eaten them.

I was all for the Eton mess or cranachan. I also love sticky toffee pudding, but some other Americans on the thread said it was "odd."

My problem only problem with cloutie dumpling, which having lived in Scotland I have had and actually like, is that I can't get it out of my head that a Scots word for nappy is clout, so that in my head, it's pudding in a diaper.

I meant to say "anyone else" above. I like some steamed puddings.

Also I do think some New Englanders have traditional British (?) Christmas pudding and they also eat mincemeat pie, which is not popular in much of the rest of the US, especially the South.

Scone clout (spelling fail) just means cloth. My granny used to say "ne'r shed a clout til May's oot" which, having lived in Scotland, you'll understand.

Oh, I know that expression but have zero idea what it means.

Ah, I see Scone - pudding not the time to sour the atmosphere (though it is a slightly annoying phrase to an English person I will agree.)

I know, Flora, it's just that the first time I heard someone use the word, they were talking about a nappy. So it stuck in my head.

I thought a clout was a vest, in that context.

But I've seen it used in not very feminist but still gripping Outlander books for nappy, sanitary cloth, pinned up underpants etc...

Doesn't it just mean "it's not going to get properly warm until June so don't bother"

I always thought it was something about wearing a cardie. Always said v ominously.

That's what I thought, sort of like here in Florida, don't put your shorts and sandals away ever until Christmas.