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[PrincessInOz]

Nice meatloaf, Alison!

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

I remember the first time I ordered chips with my meal and out came something rather like BBQ chips (we call crisps potato chips). I looked at DH and said I couldn't eat them with my steak!

For us eggplant is eggplant.

I loved it when people asked if they could fix us some food! All I could think of was was it broken?

Those funny Americans with their quaint turn of phrases

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Lol yes fix us some food. Or 'can I get a coke' meaning I now know 'can I have a coke' I thought the correct response to this was 'I don't know...can you?' .. It sounds like a question to oneself to us not a request to another person lol.. Why is the person asking if they can get a coke if they want you to get it lol..

 

[franandaj]

It's quite a bit lower in calories but honestly because it's so different in style and taste from a traditional one it's like an apples and orange thing, not a substitution if that makes sense. It has a ton of flavor due to the spice combination and the italian sausage has a lot of flavor on its own of course. I've modified it from the original one which had green peppers (we like the sweets better) and celery (fail to see the point in that one lol) and then I use fat free half and half instead of the real stuff. You truly can't tell. My family loves it, actually vastly prefers it to the regular kind.

Good luck on the ressies!

I tried turkey based products in the past and unless it's an actual turkey I'm cooking it doesn't go over well. It sounds really good to me, but what do I know?

yep Scots & Italian made for an interesting household growing up
Now I am craving meatloaf too, think I'll have to make it very soon like hearing all the different ways to make it

I know everyone has their own recipes, we were going to buy a Meatloaf cookbook, but I don't know what ever happened to that plan.

The lollipop chatter sure gave me a chuckle.

Nice pics of the drive back along the coast and the lunch stop looked great.

Me too! Thanks!

We have meatloaf in Australia but I do not like it. I vowed to never make it for my children but they had it on school camp once and after a couple of years of nagging I finally gave in and made it for them. My mother is NOT a cook and I have horrid memories of hers, you needed a chain saw to cut that thing!

Chips on bread aren't the chips that you guys get, like potato chips (or crisps). They're the sticks of deep fried potatoes. It is a very easy snack. I think the English call them chip buttys?

We call 'shrimp' prawns. I think shrimp are slightly different to prawns though. Living in North Queensland we are quite spoilt for choice with seafood so we only like King prawns or Red Spot prawns. To us, anything else is inferior

I'm not a fan of meatloaf but that looks nice. It's not that different to when I make rissoles when you come to think of it. DH loves the spicy V8 juice (I don't like vegetable juice) so I might add a dash to the meat mix next time I make rissoles instead of sweet chilli sauce.

I meant Fries, not potato chips, I was just thinking that it was a lot of starch and not much protein. I do put potato chips in my bologna sandwiches. We call them prawns here too when they are over a certain size. Most places (unless they are upscale and pricey) don't serve prawns, they serve the smaller less expensive version which are simply called shrimp.

Yes we must be the same as Australia. Our chips are fried potatoes American's call them fries and what American's call chips are crisps here. Yes we call them chip butties they are very nice!

We too call shrimp prawns! And eggplant Aubergine. It's all very confusing at first but we are getting use to it!

First time we tried to make a reservation at a restaurant was very funny. We call that 'booking a table'. The server thought we wanted to physically remove the table from the restaurant lol. Also we don't say 'Are you still working on that honey' for still eating a food item. The first time a server said that to me I had no idea what she meant! Working would only be used for house work, jobs etc. not food or anything like that. To us it sounded like she meant I was trying to build something out of the mashed potato so my first thoughts were that scene in Close Encounters of the Third kind where he builds a mountain from the mash lol...

Any news on the dream house Alison? Can we move that bus yet?

There are plenty of funny statements that folks from the UK make as well!

I remember the first time I ordered chips with my meal and out came something rather like BBQ chips (we call crisps potato chips). I looked at DH and said I couldn't eat them with my steak!

For us eggplant is eggplant.

I loved it when people asked if they could fix us some food! All I could think of was was it broken?

Those funny Americans with their quaint turn of phrases

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on the broken food part!

And the bold coming from someone in a country where they say, "don't come the raw prawn with me".

Nice meatloaf, Alison!

Thank you!

Lol yes fix us some food. Or 'can I get a coke' meaning I now know 'can I have a coke' I thought the correct response to this was 'I don't know...can you?' .. It sounds like a question to oneself to us not a request to another person lol.. Why is the person asking if they can get a coke if they want you to get it lol..

My mother always said the proper way to phrase it would be "May I get a coke?"

 

[franandaj]

OK, so some of you have been waiting for this. I finally posted my D23 Expo TR!

D23 Expo TR

 

[dgbg100106]

That is how I was taught
May I get a coke?

 

[dgbg100106]

OK, so some of you have been waiting for this. I finally posted my D23 Expo TR!

D23 Expo TR

Alison, I saw a picture of the D&B for D23 last night... Very cool! Do you know how much?

 

[TifffanyD]

Alison, I saw a picture of the D&B for D23 last night... Very cool! Do you know how much?

I saw that too!! Looked like a tote so probably $250-280ish?

 

[franandaj]

That is how I was taught
May I get a coke?

The other question asks if you were able not permission!

Alison, I saw a picture of the D&B for D23 last night... Very cool! Do you know how much?

Do you mean the blue Harvey Seatbelt bags? I'll have to go check on how much they were....

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

Great will check out that new trip report exciting! Always wanted to go to that


So looking forward to F & W this year. We are very new to this. Last year we just looked didn't really understand what it was all about until I read your TR. but we enjoyed the kiosks. I did notice last year they had these cool disney gift cards on a bracelet you could buy. I hope they do those again! I want to get DW one so she can help herself to what she wants. If she has to pay cash or charge the room she won't! She will buy me the world but when it comes to herself she is shy. So I find ways around that!

 

[franandaj]

I saw that too!! Looked like a tote so probably $250-280ish?

The large satchel and mini tote were $175. The wallet was $95. I bought a couple for one of my FB friends and I need to get her the total of what she ordered.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

That is how I was taught
May I get a coke?

Your nation was taught such nice ways. You are all so upbeat and positive we love coming to America. Us Brits undertip ( me and DW don't btw we are so embarrassed of British people that do ) , see everything as negative and moan lol. We feel our energy drain as we land back at London... Moan moan moan lol...even our signs are negative 'do not cross this barrier' yours... 'Pardon our stardust whilst this area is being redesigned for your future enjoyment' ....



Roll on F & W!

 

[franandaj]

Great will check out that new trip report exciting! Always wanted to go to that


So looking forward to F & W this year. We are very new to this. Last year we just looked didn't really understand what it was all about until I read your TR. but we enjoyed the kiosks. I did notice last year they had these cool disney gift cards on a bracelet you could buy. I hope they do those again! I want to get DW one so she can help herself to what she wants. If she has to pay cash or charge the room she won't! She will buy me the world but when it comes to herself she is shy. So I find ways around that!

We tend to pay for as much as we can with gift cards. Fran likes to buy them on eBay or from other sources where she gets a discount. That's nice you take such good care of her!

 

[TifffanyD]

The large satchel and mini tote were $175. The wallet was $95. I bought a couple for one of my FB friends and I need to get her the total of what she ordered.

Oh that's not bad at all!

I wonder if there are Disneyland exclusive Dooneys. May need to get my friend to use her CM discount while we are there....

 

[Twoboysnmygirl]

Ahhhh! You had me at "food porn"!!! New reader here, Lisaviolet sent me (I bet you didn't know you had your very own PTR-mouse-pusher!), she's my Disney guardian angel.

Anywho...I'm off to read the last 41 pages!

 

[rentayenta]

OK, so some of you have been waiting for this. I finally posted my D23 Expo TR!

D23 Expo TR

On my way.

 

[franandaj]

Oh that's not bad at all!

I wonder if there are Disneyland exclusive Dooneys. May need to get my friend to use her CM discount while we are there....

They had one for the 55th anniversary that was exclusive to DL, similar to the one they had for WDW's 40th. But those are sold out. Right now, they mostly have the black and white charms, the balloons, oh wait! Maybe there is a DL bag, I don't care for the colors much so I don't pay attention to it.

I just checked, there is a retro DL bags, you might be interested in.

Ahhhh! You had me at "food porn"!!! New reader here, Lisaviolet sent me (I bet you didn't know you had your very own PTR-mouse-pusher!), she's my Disney guardian angel.

Anywho...I'm off to read the last 41 pages!

I'll have to thank Lisa for being my very own PTR Barker Bird.

Thanks Lisa!

Well if nothing else, there is plenty of food porn around here!

 

[franandaj]

On my way.

See ya over there!

 

[eandesmom]

I tried turkey based products in the past and unless it's an actual turkey I'm cooking it doesn't go over well. It sounds really good to me, but what do I know?

You can do it with a combo of beef and then pork sausage but we like it better with the chicken Italian sausage. LOL! It does make a difference what you use though with both. White meat, chicken or turkey can get really dry and not always absorb flavors as well as either the dark or "less lean" which is often a mix of the white and dark.

Of course we eat a LOT of chicken italian sausage so it's possibly simply what we are used to but it's rather fabulous in pasta, or pizza soup or gosh, so many things. LOL!

LOVE the look of that D23 Dooney!

 

[Marlea98]

Lol yes fix us some food. Or 'can I get a coke' meaning I now know 'can I have a coke' I thought the correct response to this was 'I don't know...can you?' .. It sounds like a question to oneself to us not a request to another person lol.. Why is the person asking if they can get a coke if they want you to get it lol..

Yep, those funny Americans

We thought it was funny that whenever DH ordered coffee at Starbucks or McDonalds or wherever they'd always get his name wrong. We didn't think our accents were that strong I found it easier to shorten my name for orders.

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[Marlea98]

Your nation was taught such nice ways. You are all so upbeat and positive we love coming to America. Us Brits undertip ( me and DW don't btw we are so embarrassed of British people that do ) , see everything as negative and moan lol. We feel our energy drain as we land back at London... Moan moan moan lol...even our signs are negative 'do not cross this barrier' yours... 'Pardon our stardust whilst this area is being redesigned for your future enjoyment' ....



Roll on F & W!

Agree

We truly expected stereotypical American people of the kind you see in movies and tv. Instead we found everyone was lovely, friendly and willing to go out of their way to help (except in Hollywood on the main tourist strip, those hustlers were horrible, but once we walked a few blocks away from there the people we met were lovely, especially the ones in the laundry where we did our washing - hello lady with the little dog, and the man from the Carribbean who told us funny stories, and the little Mexican girl who could only peep out at my kids from beside the dryer and then giggle shyly when my kids smiled at her).

People in Australia often complain at how 'Americanised' Australia is becoming but I still believe we are still more English.

And Alison, I don't know of anyone who says 'don't come the raw prawn with me' I don't even know what that really means! Although I do love cold cooked prawns dribbled with a squeeze of lemon - yum. If you can, try and find some old Australian tv shows from the 60s or 70s - their language is more 'traditional' than how we speak now. I think our 'accents' were more pronounced back then. I find language fascinating. Crikey!

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