Americans: why don't you use kettles?

[Miss Caphat]

We don't have pies, but we do have giant meat and cabbage twinkies called "Runsas":

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Meat and cabbage Twinkies, lol?

 

[Miss Caphat]

Well if you like British style sausages (which all the Americans I know do,) then you'd probably like them, honest.

How is a meat pie like a sausage? I don't understand

 

[sleaterkinney]

This thread has reminded me to descale the kettle.

 

[TikkiB]

How is a meat pie like a sausage? I don't understand

Sorry I thought you meant pork pies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_pie

But meat pies aren't scary either. Imagine ground beef in a thick sauce enclosed with pastry - yum!

 

[Miss Caphat]

Sorry I thought you meant pork pies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_pie

But meat pies aren't scary either. Imagine ground beef in a thick sauce enclosed with pastry - yum!

Um I did mean pork pies or any kind of pie with meat

 

[skyscraper101]

You can get frozen pies (pot pies) which are great. I always get 'Banquet' pot pies in America and they're cheap, like a dollar each or less.

Just not chilled fresh ones with puff pastry.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Oh and I totally forgot that we do have one kind of savory pie popular in the US called a pot pie generally filled with chicken vegetables and a cream sauce or chicken gravy

 

[TikkiB]

Um I did mean pork pies or any kind of pie with meat

You can get frozen pies (pot pies) which are great. I always get them in America and they're cheap, like a dollar each or less.

Just not chilled fresh ones with puff pastry.

Well the filling for a pork pie is more like sausage meat (although not entirely the same), while the filling for a meat pie is usually looser with gravy in it. Also pork pie pastry is a lot harder than ordinary meat pies as it is made in order to be more structurally sound.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Haha jinx skyscraper101

 

[TikkiB]

Oh and I totally forgot that we do have one kind of savory pie popular in the US called a pot pie generally filled with chicken vegetables and a cream sauce or chicken gravy

well there you go, that's a meat pie - we just have a range of different fillings.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

This thread has reminded me to descale the kettle.

My work here is done.

 

[Miss Caphat]

Looking at the wiki page for meat pies and it also occurs to me that I've seen steak & Guinness pies on the menu at a few Irish style pubs here

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Apropos, a question for Irish people: do you get Irish style pubs in Ireland at all? There must be a few, surely, set up by ironic hipsters?

 

[Miss Caphat]

Apropos, a question for Irish people: do you get Irish style pubs in Ireland at all? There must be a few, surely, set up by ironic hipsters?

Tbf though all the Irish pubs around here are generally run by actual Irish people

 

[skyscraper101]

Tbf though all the Irish pubs around here are generally run by actual Irish people

Probably more Irish people in Boston than in Ireland tbh

 

[danny la rouge]

As far as a coffee buzz, I really don't know what to say to that...does caffeine not affect British people?

Not from standard American coffee.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

If your ancestors left Ireland on a boat in search of spuds, and your family has been in Massachusets ever since, it's questionable in what sense you can call yourself Irish.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

A slight digression but I've always been interested in the American system of using cups to measure when baking and cooking. Bee Wilson's very good book, 'Consider the Fork' explains it in detail. Apparently measuring things by volume was easier than carrying weights across the prairies, which makes sense, and then in the 19th C a woman called Fannie Farmer standardised the cup and spoon measurements so that you would know exactly what sort of cup to use.
It does still seem like a rather haphazard way to measure dry goods and I gather more Americans are starting to measure by weight for the consistency.

I bought a set of steel cup measures a few years back so I don't need to faff about converting measurements when dealing with a US recipe. Never had to use them yet, but handy to have just in case.

 

[skyscraper101]

Another interesting observation I found in America is the dominance of like two types of washing detergent vs the rest. You basically got 'Tide' and 'Gain' with the lions share of the market... and then a few fringe brands like Wisk or Arm & hammer which probably represent less that 10% of the rest. Liquid seems to be preferred over powder IME.

The choice in the UK seems to be more varied with Ariel, Bold, Persil, Surf, Daz, Fairy, Ecover, Radion, Almat, Easy (poundland option) etc... but with a preference for powder/liquid-tabs over liquid.

 

[Miss Caphat]

If your ancestors left Ireland on a boat in search of spuds, and your family has been in Massachusets ever since, it's questionable in what sense you can call yourself Irish.

They keep coming all the time though. We're like Ellis island for people from Ireland

 

[Miss Caphat]

Not from standard American coffee.

Well if you drink 10 cups of it like most people in the US do you might understand

 

[Miss Caphat]

Another interesting observation I found in America is the dominance of like two types of washing detergent vs the rest. You basically got 'Tide' and 'Gain' with the lions share of the market... and then a few fringe brands like Wisk or Arm & hammer which probably represent less that 10% of the rest. Liquid seems to be preferred over powder IME.

The choice in the UK seems to be more varied with Ariel, Bold, Persil, Surf, Daz, Fairy, Ecover, Radion, Almat, Easy (poundland option) etc... but with a preference for powder/liquid-tabs over liquid.

Hmm I don't really find that to be true. There's dozens of US brands I can think of and Gain hasnt even been around very long. But we do prefer the liquid. The powder tends to clump

 

[skyscraper101]

Hmm I don't really find that to be true. There's dozens of US brands I can think of and Gain hasnt even been around very long. But we do prefer the liquid. The powder tends to clump

Admittedly, I'm basing this on limited scoping around of maybe five or six supermarkets... but thats definitely what I've experienced.

I also prefer liquid, and I like the smell of Tide, especially the febreze flavour one.

 

[Crispy]

I imagine powder would clump in those silly vertical-axis machines you have

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Meat and cabbage Twinkies, lol?

It's a small chain in the Midwest. I don't think they have more than a dozen restaurants. They also have burgers made out of real food. The original Runza recipe came from the owner's German/Czech ancestors. We have lots of Krauts around here.

 

[Orang Utan]

I was really surprised when I learnt that, given the American love of all things meat. There is a company run by a couple of Brits in the north east who make and deliver proper pork pies so we sent some to the inlaws. I 'think' they liked them, but the company suggests heating them as a serving suggestion which just sounds rank for pork pies.

Oh no, hot pork pies are LUSH.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

They keep coming all the time though. We're like Ellis island for people from Ireland

We getting loads of Sudanese refugees. In a hundred years Omaha will be to them what Boston is to the Irish.

 

[danny la rouge]

One thing I do think should take off in the UK is Parcheesi; it's far superior to Ludo.

 

[Orang Utan]

If your ancestors left Ireland on a boat in search of spuds, and your family has been in Massachusets ever since, it's questionable in what sense you can call yourself Irish.

You have a shamrock tattoo

 

[skyscraper101]

We have lots of Krauts around here.

Are we allowed to say that anymore? Or is it more a friendly colloquialism in the US than it is in the UK? Kraut would seem a bit un-pc in the UK I reckon but maybe not so in America. Like 'Spook' is fine in the UK but a bit racialist in the USA..? (Hence the TV show 'Spooks' being called 'MI5' in America)