One thing that really pisses me off.

Edit: Free prize to anyone who gets the external reference hidden in this image.

From the The World According To America challenge. See all 275 entries (closed)

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 8:45, archived)

also chips and crisps....
is the external reference sexual??
( Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 8:54, archived)

I was thinking something along the lines of your username...

( Count Vanderhoff trying to learn tattyshop, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 8:56, archived)

color
fucking annoys me they've bastardised English words like that
( Haku is still addicted to Wispas, and trance music, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:01, archived)

flavor, garbage etc...
cunts.
( Count Vanderhoff trying to learn tattyshop, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:04, archived)

Garbage?
How's that different?

I'm a UKer living in the states, so I'm a bit out of touch.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:04, archived)

we say rubbish
or "the bin"
( Nonny Mouse. -- Scared as a Shitting Scorpion, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:15, archived)

Truthfully, most Americans say rubbish and bin, especially in the south.
The preferred term is "trash"
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:16, archived)

is it true they have both kinds of music in the US
country and western?
( Haku is still addicted to Wispas, and trance music, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:19, archived)

Don't forget Bluegrass

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:21, archived)

US: garbage & trash
UK: rubbish
( Haku is still addicted to Wispas, and trance music, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:15, archived)

Yeh
Like jail! should be spelt gaol!
(ruud316, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:26, archived)

or
p.r.i.s.o.n.
(Stonkwood Played with his twanger AND bounced his balls on, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 10:09, archived)

Erm,,,,,
At the time when people left England to set up America those English words didn't have a U in them. We subsequently added a U. U is a recent addition to the English language - due to the influence of French on the English language.
(jim_eureka, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:57, archived)

I have no problem with the chips/crisps thing.
It just annoys me when they call it a hot dog, despite it not having a bun.

They do it with hamburgers too. They call ground beef "hamburger" despite whether or not it's formed into patties or possesses a bun.

Although, on the other hand, I hate the phrase "mince meat" and prefer "ground beef" because it describes it so much more accurately.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:02, archived)

*goes off to animate meat mincing*

( Wildyles is back to rimming chimps, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:05, archived)

for some reason...
I don't like the term ground beef.
Stirs up images of grit and mud and decent meat being turned into a very fine paste rather than just being minced maintaining some recognisable texture.
( sudo is bored, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:07, archived)

But that's exactly what it is.

Ground beef is the most disgusting meat known to man. All the bacteria that would normally be seared off the surface during cooking is now folded deeply into it, causing food poisoning more frequently than any other food.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:09, archived)

so it is exactly
beef that is ground ( and I would beg to differ there as it is rarely beef and more like some cow lips and a bag of sawdust ) yet it is not meat that is minced? Considering the meat goes through a mincing machine and I have a severe case of white winitis this morning you are doing your level best to confuse me.
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:16, archived)

A mincing machine might just as easily be called
a grinding machine.
( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:30, archived)

Except chicken.
Oh, and pork.


and rice



Cook it properly and you kill the becteria; I don't think I have ever eaten rare mince. Quite frankly the idea appals me.
(Poisoned Monkey is wallowing in frontpage euphoria., Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:18, archived)

I agree
Grinding implies all manner of bone and tit in there.


( Wasp Box is your next PM, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:12, archived)

hey at least we have Faggots in the UK
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm
( Haku is still addicted to Wispas, and trance music, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:17, archived)

what is the prize?

( Neon Blue Ah ha ha, I feel positively Capital!, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:04, archived)

A hot dog, WITH the fucking bun.

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:07, archived)

haha!
you imply that there can be a hot dog WITHOUT a bun then? Still confused.
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:17, archived)

It could have a slice of bread, or a crumpet, and I'd still take it as a hot dog.

( Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:18, archived)

Silly Americans.
Sausage is not hot dog!
( wheelybird Paul's out of toilet paper - send donations, Fri 24 Feb 2006, 9:08, archived)