Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[littlebabyjesus]

It's news to me that there are people who say cordial not squash.

 

[QOTH]

Cordial and squash are the same to me too. I would never say squash though.

I never thought this would happen, but you've identified a hair that I can't be arsed splitting.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I never thought this would happen, but you've identified a hair that I can't be arsed splitting.

There have been whole threads dedicated to lesser things.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's news to me that there are people who say cordial not squash.

maybe it's a south/north thing, but to me squash is a rah rah hockey sticks let's go ride ponies and crash daddy's jag sort of word

 

[littlebabyjesus]

maybe it's a south/north thing, but to me squash is a rah rah hockey sticks let's go ride ponies and crash daddy's jag sort of word

me and belushi are Welsh.

cordial's the kind of thing you get offered at a kid's house where they have posh gadgets like soda streams and the like.

 

[8den]

maybe it's a south/north thing, but to me squash is a rah rah hockey sticks let's go ride ponies and crash daddy's jag sort of word

Cordial is obviously more posh than squash. Squash is things like orange or blackcurrant or "tropical fruit" (basically coloured e-numbers and artificial sugar), while you can have cordials in exotic posh flavours like elderflower.

 

[Orang Utan]

me and belushi are Welsh.

cordial's the kind of thing you get offered at a kid's house where they have posh gadgets like soda streams and the like.

Cordial is obviously more posh than squash. Squash is things like orange or blackcurrant or "tropical fruit" (basically coloured e-numbers and artificial sugar), while you can have cordials in exotic posh flavours like elderflower.

Not where I'm from. See earlier posts. Cordial is exactly the same as squash - cheap sugary Robinson's crap that kids (and weird adults encountered on U75) drink. I didn't encounter elderflower cordial until a few years ago at a mate's wedding. We did get sirop in France though, but we only ever had it there.

(and Wales is the South too )

 

[littlebabyjesus]

(and Wales is the South too )

Linguistically, South Wales is v close to the West Country. I would suspect our Bristolian posters would be on the squash side.

Of the South East, I know not. It's a concept strictly from my childhood, like pop.

 

[maomao]

Cordial is definitely just posh for squash. This may lead to a 'higher quality' drink but it's the same thing.

 

[Orang Utan]

Cordial is definitely just posh for squash.

or t'other way round

 

[pogofish]

Didn't cordial usually have medicinal/health pretensions, where squash was just a sweet drink?

 

[8den]

Didn't cordial usually have medicinal/health pretensions, where squash was just a sweet drink?

Yes and Cordial is another name for liqueurs, so it's blates more posh that "squash".

 

[pogofish]

Apart from the oddballs who called it 'Juice'.

"Juice", which of course was another name for sweetened lemonade/soda-style drinks where I'm from. Not anything that had never actually seen or been extracted from fruit!

 

[campanula]

both the same, imo - concentrated fruity stuff (or otherwise) which is diluted with water (or tonic/lemonade/vodka)
Poshness does not enter into it since there are the likes of elderflower cordial...but also Vimto (cordial).

 

[Miss Caphat]

It all sounds really revolting whatever you want to call it

 

[Orang Utan]

It all sounds really revolting whatever you want to call it

it is. like flat Gatorade/Mountain Dew. best off with some plain old water.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

It all sounds really revolting whatever you want to call it

You can mock our antiquated constitution. You can poke fun at our social awkwardness and our yellowed, irregular teeth. Giggle all you like at our absurdly small houses.

But insult our squashes at your peril. No more, Caphat.

 

[killer b]

There have been whole threads dedicated to lesser things.

there's several whole subforums here dedicated to lesser things.

 

[Miss Caphat]

You can mock our antiquated constitution. You can poke fun at our social awkwardness and our yellowed, irregular teeth. Giggle all you like at our absurdly small houses.

But insult our squashes at your peril. No more, Caphat.

Don't forget your bacon that's actually just ham!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Don't forget your bacon that's actually just ham!

And the agenda is set for the next twenty pages. What the blazes do you mean?

 

[Miss Caphat]

*runs*

 

[Orang Utan]

Don't forget your bacon that's actually just ham!

noooooo. all you eat is streaky bacon and you overcook it until it's crispy

 

[Maurice Picarda]

I've ordered enormous amounts of bacon in America. It's bacon. Sometimes it is maple bacon, which sounds wrong, but is still recognisably the same thing.

 

[Miss Caphat]

I've ordered enormous amounts of bacon in America. It's bacon. Sometimes it is maple bacon, which sounds wrong, but is still recognisably the same thing.

Maple bacon is smoked over maple branches and is delicious.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've ordered enormous amounts of bacon in America. It's bacon. Sometimes it is maple bacon, which sounds wrong, but is still recognisably the same thing.

that it's bacon is not in dispute, but the tastiest bacon - back bacon, they call ham!

 

[Maurice Picarda]

that it's bacon is not in dispute, but the tastiest bacon - back bacon, they call ham!

Really? There is no end to their villainy. What do they call ham, then?

 

[Orang Utan]

Really? There is no end to their villainy. What do they call ham, then?

actually, i think they call back bacon 'Canadian bacon'

 

[Maurice Picarda]

actually, i think they call back bacon 'Canadian bacon'

Oh. So green eggs and ham is not green bacon and eggs. And what Caphat means by ham will remain a mystery.

 

[Orang Utan]

Oh. So green eggs and ham is not green bacon and eggs. And what Caphat means by ham will remain a mystery.

perhaps she can elucidate if she hasn't run to the hills

 

[spanglechick]

It all sounds really revolting whatever you want to call it

it's like non-fizzy fruit soda but less sweet and a bit more subtly flavoured. An odd contender for "revolting". Oh - oh... I know... it's like Snapple! (I think - unless that's a brand of iced tea, which I don't think it is...)

Anyway - snapple... but rather than carrying all the weight of it in its ready-to-drink form, you dilute it at home.