The Newfie accent is lovely ! A newly transplanted Newf told me she was knitting a beer. I waited awhile hoping to get the gist of the conversation, it's a bear. We still tease her about that. In conversation she still refers to 'ye' but not thou.
Most of the large countries in Europe for some reason look down on Swiss accents, when I moved to France I quickly learned to drop my accent from Vaud ! Perhaps it has something to do with Switzerland being entirely surrounded.
On 26/01/2010 02:56, Gillian Murray wrote: > I envy you the trip. I can't believe okra (yuck) was heard of in UK in
I'm not a whisky drinker but when we lived in Brora (Sutherland) the experts at the Clyneleish Distillery assured me that adding a little local water was fine as long as it was a single malt and not a blended whisky. The water jugs in Brora's local hotels all had a dark ring around the insided, this was caused by peat suspended in the local, very, very soft water. Maureen found out to her cost just how soft the Brora water was when she used her washing machine for the first time after we'd moved up there from the Potteries where the water was extremely hard; she put in her usual amount of washing powder and then spent several hours trying to get rid of the foaming suds!
You folks did it! Last night I ran out to Trader Joe's for a couple of things, and sitting right at the entryway was a table of blood oranges. Well, I HAD to buy them after all the discussion here! Had one for b'fast this morning. Boy, was it red. And juicy without being very sweet; a big of a grapefruitish tang to it.
FYI, it was $2.49 for two lbs. (eight oranges), so not crippling as far as buying on a whim/succumbing to temptation goes! I could do much worse, LOL!
Sue
"Susan Hartman" wrote .
They are lovely, especially the colour. (And I still think they would make lovely.....not very sweet orange jam)
Dawne
Nor have I! :) I've heard this about broadcasting, too, and I think this is pretty much the way most people in the northern Great Plains speak (other than your "eh?", that is! lol!). Once you get south of about Kansas, you start hearing the southern/western drawl.
Joan
I'm with you Lucille. I love orange marmalade but have to buy it in a jar because it has to have the SEVILLE oranges to taste just right, and to my knowledge, we don't even get them here. My all time favourite was pineapple orange marmalade. But that's a delicious product of the past I'm afraid. :)
Maureen In Vancouver, B.C.
They are available in stupidstores in Halifax but are usually far from regular oranges in the produce section as they don't want people to buy them by accident thinking they can be peeled and eaten.
one of my great grandmothers had the surname Bray and my dad told me that they used to chant 'Grandmother , grandmother Bray May we go out to play We wont go near the waterside and chase the ducks away' ! Jan in cold Wiltshire UK but originally from Liverpool (a 'Scouser')
Repeating myself, but I've found a lovely bitter Seville orange marmalade that is very good and not a huge budget buster - Duerr 1881
Celtic ( soft C in this case for initial letter and hard c at the end) wear green and white hooped shirts - DH and DS are hardened supporters.
Also a religious divide: Rangers = Protestant Celtic = Catholic
Normally, blood oranges are pretty tart. If you like more of a sweet flavor, consider 'Cara Cara', a naval orange mutation with a pinkish to reddish interior. They're big oranges like their ancestral navals, and have sort of blackberry and rose petal notes to their flavor. One of my favorites.
Seville oranges were street trees in the town I went to grad school in. No one minded impoverished grad students picking a few bushels for marmalade production.
Kay
Those CaraCara are wonderful.
Cheryl
I guess because the county bordering St. Lucie County where I live is Indian River County, where Tropicana and other orange groves live, we never have blood or CaraCara oranges.
Lucille
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Apparently, Seville oranges were the most common type of oranges until the introduction of the sweet China orange in the 1500s from which most of our eating oranges descend. Sevilles, like lemons or limes are obviously much tarter and needed the sugar.
BTW, there is an old urban legend that the name marmalade comes from 'Marie est malade' (Mary is sick). Nope, it comes from marmelado which is a Portuguese type of quince jam. The name was transferred to orange marmalade, sort of the same way we refer to apple 'butter'.
MargW
That is too bad - both are heavenly!
C
I like tart, can enjoy grapefruit with no sugar but Sevilles are what I would call bitter, with a big B lol
Mmm yes like Liverpool and Everton in my neck of the woods , however DH is Church of Scotland and DS is church of England
Check the farmer's markets... my aunt in Orlando grows both in her tiny yard, and occasionally has so many she sends them to the local markets.
I will check the next time I go. Thanks for the information.
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