Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Miss Caphat]

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.

I was just kidding, it sounds fine. I'm just throwing back the kind of unnecessary rudeness we get for American things we have no control over.
Kind of the same with the bacon thing - I have had two visitors from the UK actually get angry that we don't have UK bacon here.
I have to say much prefer the U.S. kind and not sure why people sometimes expect things to be exactly the same from one English speaking country to the next.
Different people in different countries have different palates shocker!

 

[Orang Utan]

US lacking in sense of humoUr shocker!

 

[Opera Buffa]

I'm just throwing back the kind of unnecessary rudeness we get for American things we have no control over.

This happens all the time in England doesn't it? I find it quite embarrassing, compared with how friendly Americans have been towards me and when I have been there.

 

[Orang Utan]

It's not rudeness. It's taking the mickey.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

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

 

[Opera Buffa]

It's not rudeness. It's taking the mickey.

Not after six pints it isn't!

 

[kittyP]

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

I am a southerner and cordial sounds well posh to me.
Squash sounds more normal.

 

[8ball]

Note that there is no gammon here. That is because all gammon is sourced directly from David Cameron's face.

 

[8den]

Snapple is vile.

Squash or Cordial would be similar to Tang for the americans

 

[Miss Caphat]

US lacking in sense of humoUr shocker!

only, it wasn't me who didn't get the joke

 

[Orang Utan]

only, it wasn't me who didn't get the joke

you didn't if you said 'unnecessary rudeness'

 

[xenon]

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.

Squash in London and Bristol. This is canon. Never heard it called cordial when I was a kid. It took a while to realise squash and cordial are the same thing and the latter definitely sounds a bit posh or English learned as a second language.

 

[xenon]

What are green eggs though. Is that a thing?

 

[8ball]

Cordial is what you call squash in order to dignify mixing it with alcohol.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Snapple is vile.

Squash or Cordial would be similar to Tang for the americans

yes, you're clearly hip to Americans trends in beverages


a) Snapple hasn't been popular since the late 90's
b) nobody has drank Tang since the 70's and it's nothing like Squash

anyway, we've been through this all before. what it's actually closest to is actual concentrated fruit juice syrups you can buy here (but hardly anyone does) or frozen concentrated juice which more people buy but still not many.

 

[trashpony]

Nah it's like kool-aid. But liquid rather than powdered

 

[Maurice Picarda]

What are green eggs though. Is that a thing?

It's possible that Dr Seuss is an unreliable guide to American culture.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Nah it's like kool-aid. But liquid rather than powdered

I suspect you're meaning something like this?

 

[DotCommunist]

Juice. Although I will say squash if asking where it is in the shop so as not to get the confusion of dilute juice/fresh juice.


Cordial is not quite the same as its for cocktails- lime cordial etc. But you can use juice in cocktails.

 

[laptop]

you can use juice in cocktails.

Mmm. Ki-ora and Drambuie. The Cocktail With No Name.

 

[moonsi til]

I grew up drinking Ki-ora if i was lucky or Fine Fare own brand and it was always squash and Lime Cordial was cordial. Now I think i mostly say cordial and pretty much only buy Rocks Organic blackcurrant and mix it with cheap sparkling water. My sisters now call it juice and I'm always when i hear them say it. juice for them is any soft drink that is not water so includes coke which growing up we referred to as ginger.

 

[spanglechick]

I suspect you're meaning something like this?

but that's iced tea - and so presumably contains caffeine.

 

[spanglechick]

some bottles of squash, recently...

that'd be about the range in a small-to-medium supermarket.

 

[Orang Utan]

Makes my teeth ache looking at it.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Top right, Sepps, we see posh squash: elderflower and kumquat, saffron and ginger, orchid and lychee,in heavy glass bottles, from firms like Bottle Green and Belvoir (pronounced beaver). These are the drinks that call themselves "cordials" to appeal to grown ups. All the rest is bought for children who are not loved enough to get expensive juices and fizzy pops.

 

[Rebelda]

I currently have five bottles of squash on the go. it's only cordial if it's posh elderflower stuff or lime in my lexicon - although lime is usually just lime innit, as in vodka and.. i do have a child but we both drink it.

I also have a stove top kettle. I'm not American though so this is all pointless information really. Something something cheeky nandos.

 

[maomao]

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

Streaky bacon is best and best when cooked till crispy. It should be smoked. Have never understood English soggy bacon.

 

[Orang Utan]

Streaky bacon is best and best when cooked till crispy. It should be smoked. Have never understood English soggy bacon.

It's all about the chewy rind for me. Unfortunately not seen much these days

 

[wtfftw]

God. I fucking hate squash.

 

[maomao]

It's all about the chewy rind for me. Unfortunately not seen much these days

Rind is good but seems to have gone out of fashion. What I can't stand is the soggy bacon you often get with a FEB. My mum used to (disparagingly) call it 'English bacon' so I always thought proper crispy bacon was a Scottish thing.