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Too bad I didn't get that advice before I went there... lol.

Just trying to remember all the do's and the dont's would almost be as bad as the spider chair puzzle in myst 4.

Hilarious! I did miss the actual names of food such as "bangers and mash", "toad in the hole", "squeak and ...um something" etc. and other "specialties" to be avoided.

I could write one on Germany (Deutchland), having lived in Stuttgart and Heidelberg for three years, but my house might get bombed.

Has anyone done one for America? I'm sure it would be insulting but also extremely funny.

Oh, yes, I remember..."bubble and squeak".

I am certainly not going to write one because Canada is much too close to the US and well within bombers range.

Hello Dara 100, the word you missed was bubble and SQUEAK. It's a mix of leftover cabbage & mashed potato heated in a frying pan. More things to miss - or try - next time? Snorkers (another name for sausages) - Yorkshire Puddings; a pancake type of mix (Bisquix to you) to make small bun sized pudding to acccompany our famous Roast Beef of Olde England. Lancashire Hotpot; an "all-in stew" topped with thinly sliced potatoes and oven cooked. Cornish Pasties; meat and veg cooked into a hard pastry parcel shell, traditionally given to the Cornish Tin Miners for lunch while underground. Welsh Rarebit; a cheesy sauce served hot on toasted bread. Steak & Kidney Pudding (also known colloquially as "Kate and Sidney Pud; chunks of beef and kidney cooked inside a soft pudding pastry. And many, many more for when you visit Old England's shores. As for writing one for America, I don't think I'd dare, I have relatives in California and I would dearly love another invitation to visit!

.....................Though, come to think about it....on my last visit to Orange, I was most relieved, when offered a "dog," not to receive fricaseed hound but a very red plastic looking sausage in a bun..........and to discover that a "sub" was not an underwater vessel of war but a large bread roll...........and that a "gyro" was a Greek sandwich with lamb and not a type of helicopter..........and that "custard" was an ice cream rather that the hot, yellow sauce we in England pour over our hot desserts. There you go, America! As they say, were're two countries separarated by a common language. I can think of many other words not related to food, which emphasise this; we have a "boot" on a car, you have a "trunk,"...we have a "bonnet" while you have a "hood." While a "vest" here is an undergarment, you call it what we would call a "shirt." While your "pants," are what we call "trousers," "pants" to us are undergarments.....and so it goes on. I'm sure that you and other friends across the "pond," can think of more.