Our Grocery Store has a British Section. Wtf are "Ginger Beer" and "Salad Cream"??

Princess Di did Arab Semite Gu wrote:

Do the shoppers in that section smell bad like Europeans?

If so, lol, I am sure it was a coincidence :-)

Princess Di did Arab Semite Gu wrote:

Do the shoppers in that section smell bad like Europeans?

Rude

Why don't Europeans wipe after #2?

Then what happens? wrote:

Then what happens? wrote:

Jamaica was part of the British Empire so that might make sense.

To give you another example of how Britain has adopted food from its former colonies, Indian Curry is one of the most popular dishes in the U.K.

No. Curry is THE most popular dish in the UK.

Then what happens? wrote:

To give you another example of how Britain has adopted food from its former colonies, Indian Curry is one of the most popular dishes in the U.K.

Wrong. Curry was developed in the UK from imported Indian spices, then the dish made its way back to India.

Also, ginger beer is nasty crap. Soulless, you could say, like everything ginger.

Princess Di did Arab Semite Gu wrote:

Do the shoppers in that section smell bad like Europeans?

If you didn't brush your teeth or shower regularly or use double ply bath tissue to wipe or use tampons, girls, you'd smell ripe, too. They make ya' wanna puke. Maybe they should stock Axe deodorant in the Euro-trash section of the Whole Foods Market.

When it comes to personal hygiene, Britannia waives the rules.

kid history wrote:

Then what happens? wrote:

To give you another example of how Britain has adopted food from its former colonies, Indian Curry is one of the most popular dishes in the U.K.

Wrong. Curry was developed in the UK from imported Indian spices, then the dish made its way back to India.

Also, ginger beer is nasty crap. Soulless, you could say, like everything ginger.

Curry means Gravy in Hindustan. There are 10,000 curries over there.

You a Lie wrote:

kid history wrote:

Wrong. Curry was developed in the UK from imported Indian spices, then the dish made its way back to India.

Also, ginger beer is nasty crap. Soulless, you could say, like everything ginger.

Curry means Gravy in Hindustan. There are 10,000 curries over there.

Chicken Tikka Masala was invented in Glasgow

You a Lie wrote:

kid history wrote:

Wrong. Curry was developed in the UK from imported Indian spices, then the dish made its way back to India.

Also, ginger beer is nasty crap. Soulless, you could say, like everything ginger.

Curry means Gravy in Hindustan. There are 10,000 curries over there.

No, no, no! The Brits invented curry and brought it back to the poor millions in India. Indians would have lived on ants and berries if it weren't for the Brits.

It's interesting how Americans are ashamed of their ancestory. If course someone is 5â„… Irish and they never shut up about it.

I'm surprised Americans a nation who pride themselves on having no class are being snobby about salad cream.

Voting for Trump has endorsed everything the who works thinks about Americans.

800ftw. wrote:

Glass 100% full, 1/2 liquid wrote:

[quote]Ginger this wrote:

I'm drinking a ginger beer right now. I have one every evening. Not that different from ginger ale, but I prefer it.

These cans were labeled "FIREY". Does it have a "kick" like ginger ale, but bigger?

I woulda gotten one to try, but they were about 3x the price of soda (which I really don't drink, anyway), so I passed.

Kinda wish I had grabbed one to try, now.

Ginger beer is a lot more 'spicy' and strong flavoured than ale.

i concur...

Ginger Beer has been around forever, and Jamaican Ginger has always been what the kids now call a "thing". It grows well there.

It's yeasty, more like a bitter. On its own, I prefer it to the highly refined, manufactured taste of Ginger Ale, but if you want to mix something with a whisky, it would probably drown out the flavour.

When I was a little kid, back around the time Daley Thompson and Allan Wells were winning stuff and every decent runner had big sideburns, we used to have little "science experiments" called "ginger beer plants". Kids got to learn about yeast and fermentation, and for very little money you'd end up with a geometrically growing supply of sweet fizzy stuff you could chug under the pretence of education:

https://delishably.com/beverages/How-to-Grow-Your-Own-Ginger-Beer-Plant

You needed to scrounge lots of glass bottles to store it in, watch them carefully, sell them to your friends of chug them after about a week. If you forgot the bottles, sometimes there would be a bang in the night, and mum and dad's storeroom would be coated in sticky mist.

This helped many people to create a lifelong interest in brewing things.

It would amaze me if older 'merkins didn't do this too.

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The salad cream is best avoided. OTOH, if they have Marmite, it can provide you with russian-roulette style fun - you love it or hate it.

Pinocha Grabber wrote:

Glass 100% full, 1/2 liquid wrote:

Good for your teeth, are they now?

lol

Salad Cream is salad dressing. If you don't know what Ginger Beer is you've led a sheltered life.

Eggy Bread the OP will likely whine about as well. Never mind he has eaten it as French Toast.

But you can't get any bloody fag-got soup!

Hyphen for vulgarity filter, How can soup be vulgar?

Cool story. Thanks.

jamin' wrote:

ElCheapo wrote:

They eat something called "spotted dick" which is some kind of pudding. Heinz sells it in cans.

I'd eat that too.

Americans drink root beer which is not a beer either. Heck, American beer isn't either.

ElCheapo wrote:

They eat something called "spotted dick" which is some kind of pudding. Heinz sells it in cans.

"Spotted dick!! Dick of what???" - King Ralph

Deadstream wrote:

ElCheapo wrote:

They eat something called "spotted dick" which is some kind of pudding. Heinz sells it in cans.

"Spotted dick!! Dick of what???" - King Ralph

Suet, dried fruit and custard.

Benny Hill, the greatest Englishman ever, liked it, what more do you need to know?