I swear I had a really clever topic for today's blog but I seem to have totally forgotten what it is, so it looks like I'll be winging it.
My favorite new rando-food discovery of yesterday is the Chippy Butty. Apparently it is 1) bread, 2) butter, 3) french fries, 4) bread, aka, a french fry sandwich. I'm not sure if it comes with additional french fries as a standard side order, but if the all-day breakfast does, I'm not sure why it wouldn't. I also learned the dark truth behind black pudding and promise to never, ever try it, but I did force myself to try a prawn cocktail potato chip. It wasn't good, wasn't bad, and I could find no correlation between the taste and seafood.
Now for some more Portland shout-outs. In passenger transport on Tuesday, the lecturer (who likes to write random things on the chalkboard and then circle them vigorously) was talking about light rail systems in the US, and then turned and looked straight at me and asked me some random question about the system in Pittsburgh or somewhere. I don't even know how he knew I was American. And so I was like, I only know Portland (which was on the list), and then he started asking questions about how many miles of track there were and how many trains they had and the subsidy. It was kind of strange. And then yesterday afternoon in transport policy the lecturer had a quote from the head of 1000 Friends of Oregon at the beginning of his presentation.
Yesterday was quiz night and the big final question was about the movie the Blue Brothers. And I didn't know the answer. Sad.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Anglo Mango and Busy Miss Lizzie
The true story of what happens when I stop being in America, and start getting English.
Anglo Mango and Busy Miss Lizzie
Hello!
The Anglo Timeline
- September 2006 - Arrive in Southampton
- October 2006 - Start course
- February 2007 - Amsterdam Passport Incident
- May 2007 - Start dating Mark
- June 2007 - Finish taught course
- September 2007 - Move to London
- September 2007 - Start work
- December 2007 - Turn in dissertation
- February 2008 - Visa extended
- June 2008 - Move to second London place
- October 2008 - Move to new work group
- January 2009 - Move into new flat
Visits & Travels
- September 2006 - London
- October 2006 - Winchester, Salisbury, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth
- December 2006 - Oxford, Chichester
- February 2007 - Kelly and MA visit, New Forest, Bath, Amsterdam
- March 2007 - Brighton
- April 2007 - Family visit, Lisa visit, Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Beaulieu, Uttoxeter
- May 2007 - Madrid!
- June/July 2007 - Portland, Seattle
- December 2007 - Portland
- February 2008 - Munich
- March 2008 - Canterbury, Switzerland
- April/ May 2008 - Family visit, Paris, Seattle
- July 2008 - Edinburgh
- August 2008 - Kari visit, Dublin, Malahide
- Novermber/December 2008 - Portland, Las Vegas
- February 2009 - Barcelona
Previous Insights into UK Culture
-
▼
2006
(64)
-
▼
October
(23)
- Hallow-England
- Portsmouth
- Guns and Football
- Chippy Butty
- The Welsh
- The job market
- London IV
- Seattle and the English
- The lingo
- Guy Fawkes, the preview
- Oregon and England
- Sizing
- Isle of Wight
- Neighbours
- Canary Wharf
- The 2-ring binder
- Salisbury
- Brits gone wild
- French man sevens
- General confusion
- Crunchy Nut and the search for the giant mug
- Winchester
- The Grocery Store
-
▼
October
(23)
14 comments:
you have failed your upbringing, mango - you didn't know a blues brother question?! i'm disappointed :-)
Portland rocks! You can get details about TriMet and light rail at http://www.trimet.org/about/index.htm and info about the streetcar at http://www.portlandstreetcar.org/history.php There are six streetcars on the route during the day. The latest is commuter heavy rail between Wilsonville and Beaverton.
You couldn't answer the Blues Brothers question? I hope your dad doesn't read that! 25 years of parenting down the drain!!
What was the question?
Please don't tell us you missed a Blues Broghers question about 'Miss Melanoma' or 'We're on a mission - from God' or worse yet 'you can't talk to nuns that way'.
I would make a blues brother comment, but everyone else seems to have covered them. Did you at least draw a picture?
I think I need to see pictures of some of these sandwiches.
The blues brothers questions was as follows:
In the film 'The Blues Brothers', what famous musician played the character of Curtis?
Also, what is the dark secret behind black pudding?
It's Cab Calloway...
Yes, it's cab calloway, but how do I know you didn't have to look that up?
And black pudding is blood. Like, coagulated blood or something of that nature. From an unknown animal.
Is it sad that blood was exactly what I was guessing? You really have to wonder about the creators of some foods. You'd have to be really desperate to be all, "I know, I'll make it out of blood!"
Gross.
They seem to be into using all parts of the animal. There is something else called suet (or something) that is just animal fat.
I once had to eat suet pudding, just to be polite. It was horrible. Thank god these people wern't into pounding a cauldron of pig blood into pudding.
Ssh...don't give them any ideas.
We feed birds suet in the winter here. They dig it.
I must add that there was a chippy butty shout-out in the video they show at the action stations. In a crisis, one of the sailors offered the captain one, and the captain was like, not now.
Post a Comment