(Absolutely nothing I could add would make this any funnier. - DG) -------- Legislation against selling, making, hiring or importing samurai swords in England and Wales has come into force. - BBC.uk
Alf Hitchcock, of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said: "... these are not the most common weapons for people to carry and use in violent crimes, but...The introduction of a ban is much needed. "
(Remember, when samurai swords are outlawed, only outlaws will have samurai swords. - DG)
(Alf Hitchcock????)
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(Absolutely nothing I could add would make this any funnier. - DG) --------
Where's the bit in the link where he says 'it can't possibly be worse than regular English food'? It's not in the newspaper itself, either. It sounds more like something DG, an American, would imagine, rather than what this man would say, because 1) This man is English and would, therefore, not say 'regular' in this context and 2) everybody likes curry
He doesn't know much. If he tries eating fox he'll find out why nobody else ever does, and why Oscar Wilde said that an English gentleman riding to hounds after a fox was " the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable".
Acorns were used for 'coffee' in wartime.
By the way, hedgehogs are tasty. The traditional method is to bake them in mud, so as to get the spines and skin off in the process. That's something for the cookery section , DG (though you don't get hedgehogs in America, I believe)
[The Daily Mail headline here is " Forget Tesco, I'll live on foxes and plants for a year"]
Daily Mail Strange Englishman plans to live on wild plants, acorn coffee, and roadkill for a year, says it can't possibly be any worse than regular English food - http://www.fark.com/
It's just past half-way down the page. I admit that it is not in the original article (I more or less have to admit that, don't I?), but it was too good to pass up.
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Originally posted by FredPuli: By the way, hedgehogs are tasty. The traditional method is to bake them in mud, so as to get the spines and skin off in the process. That's something for the cookery section , DG (though you don't get hedgehogs in America, I believe)
I remember hedgehog flavoured crisps (chips). They were introduced in Britain as a joke, but proved to be very popular. The manufacturer ran into problems with Trading Standards, because they were originally made from pork fat, not hedgehogs. So he went and interviewed gypsies, who eat hedgehogs, to get his crisps to taste more like the real thing. Don't know if they make them anymore.
I remember hedgehog flavoured crisps (chips). They were introduced in Britain as a joke, but proved to be very popular. The manufacturer ran into problems with Trading Standards, because they were originally made from pork fat, not hedgehogs.
I remember those, too. Pork fat was close. The original is a hedge hog, after all.
Trading Standards? Hedgehog flavoured crisps are no problem compared to shepherds pie (contains no shepherd), toad in the hole, spotted dick (of course), Welsh rabbit (no rabbit)and angels on horseback.
DG 'Regular' has interesting meanings here. When an American says " He's a regular guy " he seems to be saying " He's an [American] who does not suffer constipation,who has regular bowel movements"
Originally posted by coldfuse: dancegirl mentioned liking digestive biscuits at DP. There is little hope for a nation that prefers something called "digestive biscuits" to Oreos.
Is there a chocolate Oreo (whatever that is)? We have dark and milk chocolate digestives, as well as the plain kind.
Originally posted by BobLaz: True, 'fuse, I like the word "Oreo" rather than "digestive biscuit"...
Maybe that's why we haven't got the word Oreo here . The Wikipedia entry for Oreo says the biscuit was invented specifically for the British market(if so, it was a total failure). The pictures suggest it's a kind of sandwich biscuit. Well, we have had many varieties of those made by different companies for a very long time,including one consisting of chocolate biscuit sandwiching 'creme', like an Oreo. A famous kind is the 'jammy dodger' (which has a hole on one side, in which there's some jam).Something suggests that Nabisco didn't do their market research very well, all that time ago
Fred, Oreos are vastly overrated, and not a patch on Bourbons, Digestives, or other British biscuits. Digestives can stand alone, and they don't need to be buried in icecream to make them palatable, as Oreos do. Bob and Fuse, you haven't lived until you've tasted a chocolate digestive, chocolate HobNobs, or Twiglets. Regarding DP: heck, you guys don't even know what Marmite is !
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There is little hope for a nation that prefers something called "digestive biscuits" to Oreos.
All I can say to you, Fuse, is that there is absolutely no hope for a nation that doesn't include Marmite in it's diet.
It's not in the newspaper itself, either. It sounds more like something DG, an American, would imagine, rather than what this man would say, because 1) This man is English and would, therefore, not say 'regular' in this context and 2) everybody likes curry 
