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I thought the USA had the monopoly on doing questionable stuff like this:
In WWI, England had internment camps for Germans who lived there. Wow, never knew that.
And for Italians. There was one down the road from where my dad grew up. Also have a perusal at actor/ voice over legend Robert Rietty' s biog. He was on one.
Was he “in one” or just really cross about the whole business?
Well he was in one! But probably got on the roof once in a while
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"Even as late as 1897, sailors in the British Navy were forbidden the use of knives and forks - because they were regarded as being prejudicial to discipline and manliness."
Hmm. I've never eaten a meal with a Brit. I wonder if their skill with tableware is less-developed than mine....
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"Even as late as 1897, sailors in the British Navy were forbidden the use of knives and forks - because they were regarded as being prejudicial to discipline and manliness."
Probably because they didn't want sailors in a bad mood below deck stabbing each other with forks.
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I thought the USA had the monopoly on doing questionable stuff like this:
In WWI, England had internment camps for Germans who lived there. Wow, never knew that.
And for Italians. There was one down the road from where my dad grew up. Also have a perusal at actor/ voice over legend Robert Rietty' s biog. He was in one.
Yep, housing estate where I had my first house had been an ww2 Italian prisoner of war internment camp. For those who wring their hands at such things nowadays, we were at war. They didn't know who were good or bad, simply that they couldn't have hundreds of potential enemy running around free, spying or blowing stuff up or killing people. Same thing happened in Germany with Brits.
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"Even as late as 1897, sailors in the British Navy were forbidden the use of knives and forks - because they were regarded as being prejudicial to discipline and manliness."
Hmm. I've never eaten a meal with a Brit. I wonder if their skill with tableware is less-developed than mine....
You have a short memory, sir
We wuz only guzzlin' which don't involve tableware.
As I recall it, anyway.
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"Even as late as 1897, sailors in the British Navy were forbidden the use of knives and forks - because they were regarded as being prejudicial to discipline and manliness."
Probably because they didn't want sailors in a bad mood below deck stabbing each other with forks.
Another reason to stay away from sailors...
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One writer (Irish, who works in England a lot), says that when he meets an American traveling in England, he thinks about something. What is it?
He (jokingly) thinks it's almost worthwhile to do a physical injury to the American, to see the amazement and gratitude that the person experiences when they get medical treatment by the English medical system (compared to the "race-to-the-bottom-dollar" system we've got here in the USA.).
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Lol.
Unless its life threatening, to get anything quickly we have to pay private now. population exceeds facilities.
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Lol.
Unless its life threatening, to get anything quickly we have to pay private now. population exceeds facilities.
Try our system! (It'll provide perspective.)
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I've just read that in England, carrots were considered "treats" for horses, and nothing more.
It wasn't until after WWI that the English (humans) began eating it.
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Is shite a polite way of saying sh*t?
I would say it's more affirmative, forceful.
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Mar 3, 2024 - 3:41 AM
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Ian Murphy
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I've just read that in England, carrots were considered "treats" for horses, and nothing more.
It wasn't until after WWI that the English (humans) began eating it.
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management from 1861 has plenty of recipes that include carrots, so they were definitely used in cooking.
It does include the following though, which might suggest where the idea of them not being a food for humans comes from.
"THE CARROT.—There is a wild carrot which grows in England; but it is white and small, and not much esteemed. The garden carrot in general use, was introduced in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was, at first, so highly esteemed, that the ladies wore leaves of it in their head-dresses. It is of great value in the culinary art, especially for soups and stews. It can be used also for beer instead of malt, and, in distillation, it yields a large quantity of spirit. The carrot is proportionably valuable as it has more of the red than the yellow part. There is a large red variety much used by the farmers for colouring butter. As a garden vegetable, it is what is called the orange-carrot that is usually cultivated. As a fattening food for cattle, it is excellent; but for man it is indigestible, on account of its fibrous matter. Of 1,000 parts, 95 consist of sugar, and 3 of starch.—The accompanying cut represents a pretty winter ornament, obtained by placing a cut from the top of the carrot-root in a shallow vessel of water, when the young leaves spring forth with a charming freshness and fullness."
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Is shite a polite way of saying sh*t?
I would say it's more affirmative, forceful.
Fascinating, as an American it sounds rather "cute".
Here the appropriate reply would be- ' now you're talking shite'.
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I've just read that in England, carrots were considered "treats" for horses, and nothing more.
It wasn't until after WWI that the English (humans) began eating it.
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management from 1861 has plenty of recipes that include carrots, so they were definitely used in cooking.
It does include the following though, which might suggest where the idea of them not being a food for humans comes from.
"THE CARROT.—There is a wild carrot which grows in England; but it is white and small, and not much esteemed. The garden carrot in general use, was introduced in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was, at first, so highly esteemed, that the ladies wore leaves of it in their head-dresses. It is of great value in the culinary art, especially for soups and stews. It can be used also for beer instead of malt, and, in distillation, it yields a large quantity of spirit. The carrot is proportionably valuable as it has more of the red than the yellow part. There is a large red variety much used by the farmers for colouring butter. As a garden vegetable, it is what is called the orange-carrot that is usually cultivated. As a fattening food for cattle, it is excellent; but for man it is indigestible, on account of its fibrous matter. Of 1,000 parts, 95 consist of sugar, and 3 of starch.—The accompanying cut represents a pretty winter ornament, obtained by placing a cut from the top of the carrot-root in a shallow vessel of water, when the young leaves spring forth with a charming freshness and fullness."
I wonder if this was one of those times when the cookbook author was trying to get people to adopt the food.
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"Every town in the UK has at least one theatre and, not uncommonly, it'll be an architectural beauty that dates all the way back to [the nineteenth century golden age of the music hall]."
True where you live?
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True where you live?
Nope. And only one phone box.
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