Re: OT: Junk

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From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Junk


> On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Joe wrote:
>
> > From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
> > > *I don't know what the sell in the UK, but in Australia, it isn't a
> > > fish-n-chips shop unless they sell fish and chips (and other things in
> > > batter), souvlaki, hamburgers, dimsims and springrolls.
> > >
> >
> > Over here, all Fish and Chip shops are run by greeks.
>
> Ours used to be (hence the souvlaki), now they seem to be run by Asians.
> Seems to be an immigrant-of-the-day thing.
>
> > They sell fish,
> > chips, battered things(that's pretty much anything, they sell battered
Mars
> > Bars, appparently a Glaswegian invention),
>
> I've seen those for sale, never bought one though.
>
> > kebabs(that is, meat in a pita bread), pies(Chicken and Mushroom,
> > Steak and Kidney, and Beef and Onion), and sausages.
>
> Sausages? That sounds odd. With pies I'd expect pasties and sausage
> _rolls_, but not sausages. (You can't sell pies without pasties and
> sausage rolls!)
They do sell sausage rolls, but not pasties.  That's left to the nice
bakeries.   They sell mostly battered sausages, but you can see unbattered
ones as well.

> > I don't know what a souvlaki is.
>
> My impression is that if they come from Greece, they're souvlaki, if they
> come from further west, they're kebabs, if they come from America, they're
> wraps.
Ok...they're all Kebabs here(in Fish'n'chip shops, at least.)

> (BTW: hamburgers with the lot include beetroot and pineapple and possibly
> bacon and eggs (as in they mightn't be on the lot, but they are options).
> If you feel like a good hamburger, you make your way to a fish-n-chips
> shop, not a McDonalds.)
Indeed.  Personally, I find fish'n'chip shops infinitely better quality than
fast food chains.  Sure, they may flaunt health and safety regulations, but
they taste so good ;-)

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