Silly questions and queries from the UK

Owenk · Dec 21, 2015

is there a thread anywhere already for Brits to ask questions on US life, habits, language etc when we are puzzled in a book, for example from this evening only:

What is a cheeseburger pie and does anyone actually eat them;
Ditto Kool-Aid what's it like and do you guys actually drink it in this health conscious age.

I am sure there will be loads more daft questions as I progress.

Dana Jean · Dec 21, 2015

It seems like there was a thread. Anyone remember?

not_nadine · Dec 21, 2015

Nope. This could be good.

Patricia A · Dec 21, 2015

Cheeseburger Pie

Looks delicious..... :suspect:

And yes, a lot of people here still drink Kool-Aid. I don't because I don't like it.
Cool thread.

AchtungBaby · Dec 21, 2015

I love cheeseburger pie! Hate Kool-Aid though

staropeace · Dec 21, 2015

I only liked lemonade flavoured Kool-Aid.

Grandpa · Dec 22, 2015

Owen Kyffin said:
What is a cheeseburger pie and does anyone actually eat them;

Appears to me to be a ground beef and cheese casserole. If one likes ground beef and cheese, and why shouldn't they, they'd probably enjoy eating it.

Ditto Kool-Aid what's it like and do you guys actually drink it in this health conscious age.

Kool-Aid is a powder made up of sugar and artificial flavorings and dissolved in water to make an allegedly delicious cold drink. I don't drink it myself.

Incidentally, the term "drink the Kool-Aid" comes tragically from a cult experience in which the cult leader got hundreds of his acolytes to drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide in a mass suicide. So the term has come to mean blindly following a leader, or a policy, or rhetoric.

I am sure there will be loads more daft questions as I progress.

Learning is fun.

TheRedQueen · Dec 22, 2015

Please keep this thread going!

May we ask questions as well? Such as: Some of my favorite comedians are Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, and Benny Hill. But are these guys appreciated in Britain as well, or are they American parodies of what so many snidely call "British Humor"?

And what did everyone think of "V for Vendetta" across the pond? Was it liked? Hated? Meh'd?

do1you9love? · Dec 22, 2015

Owen Kyffin said:
is there a thread anywhere already for Brits to ask questions on US life, habits, language etc when we are puzzled in a book, for example from this evening only:

What is a cheeseburger pie and does anyone actually eat them;

Ditto Kool-Aid what's it like and do you guys actually drink it in this health conscious age.

I am sure there will be loads more daft questions as I progress.

Well, if there was a thread and we've lost it, then let's just use this one!

1. Others have posted pictures of a cheeseburger pie. I have made and eaten these a few times in my life.
2. Kool-Aid comes in many flavors. Some are good and some, not so much. It can be made with sugar substitute so it's not as many empty calories.

I look forward to your questions. We folks in the US are a strange bunch and you will likely get many different answers based on where we are and how we grew up!

Moderator · Dec 22, 2015

do1you9love? said:
Well, if there was a thread and we've lost it, then let's just use this one!

1. Others have posted pictures of a cheeseburger pie. I have made and eaten these a few times in my life.
2. Kool-Aid comes in many flavors. Some are good and some, not so much. It can be made with sugar substitute so it's not as many empty calories.

I look forward to your questions. We folks in the US are a strange bunch and you will likely get many different answers based on where we are and how we grew up!

Agreed! There might have been one but it could have been on the old Board and either way, more trouble than it's worth to try to find it.

muskrat · Dec 22, 2015

Grandpa said:
Appears to me to be a ground beef and cheese casserole. If one likes ground beef and cheese, and why shouldn't they, they'd probably enjoy eating it.

Kool-Aid is a powder made up of sugar and artificial flavorings and dissolved in water to make an allegedly delicious cold drink. I don't drink it myself.

Incidentally, the term "drink the Kool-Aid" comes tragically from a cult experience in which the cult leader got hundreds of his acolytes to drink Kool-Aid laced with cyanide in a mass suicide. So the term has come to mean blindly following a leader, or a policy, or rhetoric.

Learning is fun.

Jim Jones actually used FLAVOR AID, not Kool-Aid. The cheapo.

Here's one for the UK: What the hell is Bubbles and Squeak?

Owenk · Dec 22, 2015

Well I have to say I like the look of cheesburger pie. Health food it aint, but maybe for a treat when we are on the boat one weekend as it looks like a dish the boat kitchen might cope with. Corned beef hash is our normal on there so it would onlt be repalcing one high calorie snack with another.

I shall make sure I keep the whereabouts of this thread for nedt time I have any questions about your strange U.S. ways and customs.

BTW no one will ever need to explain to me what Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are as they are (well) known to me and I am experienced in deploying them.

Owenk · Dec 22, 2015

muskrat said:
Jim Jones actually used FLAVOR AID, not Kool-Aide. The cheapo.

Here's one for the UK: What the hell is Bubbles and Squeak?

Bubble and squeak is my favourite meal of the year and one which traditionally is easten on Boxing Day, so Saturday I shall be having it. Left over swede/roast potatoes/cabbage or brussel sprouts etc freid up in lard until it has a crispy slightly burned outter crust and then consumed with cold ham, left over turket and pickles of all kinds, but in our house in particular pickled walnuts. Now I am drooling.

Sometimes we just especially "create" left over veg so we can make bubble and squeak.

It is called that because it bubbles in the pan and then, well let's just say it is said to produce internal gas which may make a squeaking sound on exiting.

muskrat · Dec 22, 2015

Owen Kyffin said:
Bubble and squeak is my favourite meal of the year and one which traditionally is easten on Boxing Day, so Saturday I shall be having it. Left over swede/roast potatoes/cabbage or brussel sprouts etc freid up in lard until it has a crispy slightly burned outter crust and then consumed with cold ham, left over turket and pickles of all kinds, but in our house in particular pickled walnuts. Now I am drooling.

Sometimes we just especially "create" left over veg so we can make bubble and squeak.

It is called that because it bubbles in the pan and then, well let's just say it is said to produce internal gas which may make a squeaking sound on exiting.

I'll stick with cheeseburger pie, thanks.

do1you9love? · Dec 22, 2015

muskrat said:
I'll stick with cheeseburger pie, thanks.

Chicken!

Owen, you can "watch" a thread and also search for threads, so this one should be easy to keep track of!

blunthead · Dec 22, 2015

Owen Kyffin said:
Well I have to say I like the look of cheesburger pie. Health food it aint, but maybe for a treat when we are on the boat one weekend as it looks like a dish the boat kitchen might cope with. Corned beef hash is our normal on there so it would onlt be repalcing one high calorie snack with another.

I shall make sure I keep the whereabouts of this thread for nedt time I have any questions about your strange U.S. ways and customs.

BTW no one will ever need to explain to me what Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are as they are (well) known to me and I am experienced in deploying them.

Put this thread in your Watch List by clicking on the Watch Thread option on the top righthand side of the page.

DiO'Bolic · Dec 22, 2015

Never heard of a Cheeseburger Pie. I still enjoy Kool-Aid on occasion (Lemonade and Tropical Punch) but not as much as when I was a kid. Never really liked Tang though... and the only reason I didn't become an astronaut.

Owenk · Dec 22, 2015

DarkKrystl said:
Please keep this thread going!

May we ask questions as well? Such as: Some of my favorite comedians are Monty Python, Eddie Izzard, and Benny Hill. But are these guys appreciated in Britain as well, or are they American parodies of what so many snidely call "British Humor"?

And what did everyone think of "V for Vendetta" across the pond? Was it liked? Hated? Meh'd?

Sorry I missed this first time around.

Monty Python and Eddie Izzard are both highly rated here - I especially love Eddie Izzard (le singe est dans l'arbre) and have seen him a few times live. Benny Hill was well liked at the time but has fallen out of favour for being a bit lacking in political correctness, all the jokes about well ddeveloped young ladies running around scantily clad is kind of frowned upon over here now. I haven;t watched him for year but seem to remember enjoying it first time around in the 70s, standards change though - I can say honestly though that when I was a youngster I knew all the works to Benny Hill's "Ernie (and he drove the fastest milk-cart in the West.)

Sorry on "V for Vendetta" I've never seen it.

Owenk · Dec 22, 2015

Oh I forgot my thirn question.

Payday bars seem to be writ large in SK's work. Are these real and if so tasty or are they the chocolate equivilent of Noz-A-La?

Grandpa · Dec 22, 2015

Owen Kyffin said:
Oh I forgot my thirn question.

Payday bars seem to be writ large in SK's work. Are these real and if so tasty or are they the chocolate equivilent of Noz-A-La?

I haven't had one in quite a while, but to my memory, they're not chocolate at all. I remember peanuts and caramel. Tasty enough. I'm just not much of a candy or candy bar guy.

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