PSA: Brits, biscuits are not cookies

[Scotteq]

One thing Americans and Brits can agree on, POUND CAKE is delicious.

I can make an outstanding pound cake.

...sliced thick... then toasted... butter on top....

 

[HAL9000]

One thing Americans and Brits can agree on, POUND CAKE is delicious.

I can make an outstanding pound cake.

What's pound cake?

Edit: Just Googled it, looks like sponge cake...

 

[Cookie]

What's pound cake?

Edit: Just Googled it, looks like sponge cake...

What's a sponge cake?

 

[zinfamous]

Is there some controversy about fish and chips?

Its fish...


...and chips.

Now a saveloy thats a controversial subject.

Edit: And dont ask about the battered sausage!!

well, chips are fries, here.


but fish and chips is always fish and chips, for whatever reason.

 

[Scotteq]

What's pound cake?

Edit: Just Googled it, looks like sponge cake...

The difference is in the texture: Pound cake is a lot thicker/heavier than Sponge.

 

[zinfamous]

That's priceless coming from an English git. You guys pronounce Leicester like 'lester.' WTF is that bullshit????

How do you pronounce Worchestershire?

Wustah?

 

[preslove]

How do you pronounce Worchester?

Wustah?

Shut up, you. Don't turn this into a Woosta thread

The last thing we need is a hundred animated gifs of sweaty men hugging each other on the ground...

...

...

On second thought :hmm:

 

[Scotteq]

How do you pronounce Worchestershire?

Wustah?

Since I have family in Massachusetts: "Wustah" is roughly correct.

 

[Patterner]

my dad went to hyundai's offices in korea on a site tour. (hyundai was building their site, i guess.) anyways, he said they pronounced it shun die.

That's probably due to the aspirated H sound.

 

[HAL9000]

The difference is in the texture: Pound cake is a lot thicker/heavier than Sponge.

Hmm Ok. never had it... Looks yummy!

How do you pronounce Worchestershire?

Wustah?

Woosta shire.

 

[Scotteq]

The difference is in the texture: Pound cake is a lot thicker/heavier than Sponge.

Hmm Ok. never had it... Looks yummy!

A basic recipe (and how it gets it's name) is:

A pound of butter.

A pound of flour

A pound of sugar

A pound of eggs (something like 8)


Mix... Bake.. Eat....

That'll be way too much for one family, tho.

 

[KK]

FLAT

 

[WelshBloke]

A basic recipe (and how it gets it's name) is:

A pound of butter.

A pound of flour

A pound of sugar

A pound of eggs (something like 8)


Mix... Bake.. Eat....

That'll be way too much for one family, tho.

Isn't that quite... dense?

 

[Scotteq]

Isn't that quite... dense?

Absolutely correct - It's a Very Dense cake.


You can lighten it up a little by substituting some vegetable oil for an equal amount of the butter.



That recipe is very very basic: You can flavor it (chocolate, lemon, etc).

 

[WelshBloke]

Absolutely correct - It's a Very Dense cake.


You can lighten it up a little by substituting some vegetable oil for an equal amount of the butter.

I might have to try it though.

 

[Scotteq]

I might have to try it though.

Plenty of recipes available online.


As mentioned above: I like to take a slice (about as thick as a man's thumb), toast it, and top with butter. In the summer: Toasted Pound cake (still hot!!) and Ice Cream is awesome, too.

..pound cake with fresh fruit....


..or with chocolate sauce..

<drool>

 

[preslove]

FLAT

Is this a metaphor for flatbread?

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Is this a metaphor for flatbread?

In America, we call it an "apartment."

 

[preslove]

In America, we call it an "apartment."

Oh yeah.

"Flat" is weird as a term for an apartment. Though, it does clear up some confusion. Over there, if you share a flat, you have flatmates. Roommates are people who share a room in a flat/house. Over here, there's no way to tell between a roommate who shares a room or apartment.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

What's pound cake?

Edit: Just Googled it, looks like sponge cake...

What's a sponge cake?

This is a sponge cake -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge_cake

Ignore him... not knowing what the difference between a pound cake and a sponge is :hmm:

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

"Flat" is weird as a term for an apartment. Though, it does clear up some confusion. Over there, if you share a flat, you have flatmates. Roommates are people who share a room in a flat/house. Over here, there's no way to tell between a roommate who shares a room or apartment.

That's because in America we value privacy (and that's a long "i" in "privacy" -- it isn't "privvassy," you wankers ). It's nobody else's business if we're sharing an apartment or sharing a room, hence we leave it ambiguous.

Unlike the Nanny State where you're compelled to disclose the private details of your living situation by the very language you speak.

Oh yeah, and in America we take vitamins, not viddamins.

 

[IGBT]

and they like the pissy aroma of boiled kidneys.

 

[acheron]

Leicester is "leice + ster". Worcester is "worce + ster". Two syllables each. The vowels get shifted a bit in the first syllables, and the words lose the R's because that is how people from that area talk, which gives you "lesteh" and "wusteh". It's really not that difficult, once you stop trying to split the words into three syllables.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

and they like the pissy aroma of boiled kidneys.

Buncha dopers, amirite?

 

[preslove]

Goddamnit people, now I want a POUND CAKE