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Means classic, old coffee-whitener??
Here they call it coffee-mate !
Means classic, old coffee-whitener??
So true, I made the mistake of asking for biscuits instead of cookies on an early trip, I can't remember where, but it was probably Georgia. That got me into a conversation about the American biscuit. Remembering what was said I used it during a British/American difference conversation in Miami. Ha, I know nothing, nor do they know what they are talking about in GA.The US is too versified to give a accurate description of preferences because each region or area has its own cultural tastes.
@LizzieMaine
"Condensed-milk" into your coffee, still typical east-german (my parents, too). Urgh!! Is this still known, in the US?
Tissue goes over the roll in this household. And black tea is drunk with milk, no sugar. My grandfather drank tea with milk after being stationed in England during the war, I inherited that sensibility.Really? And whose script do I follow? Please enlighten us as to the proper etiquette of replacing the toilet roll.
Heretic that I am, I don't like the taste of tea. However, I do know that tea without milk is not the British way of drinking the stuff. So if you should ever find yourself on our shores, you are now informed of, I'm tempted to say, the right way, but Sheeplady will be reading this and think that I'm mocking. Oh, and as you are now informed of the British way of tea drinking it's best that you know to ask for a loo roll should the tissue run out. But don't worry if you put it on the wrong way round, Sheeplady will be an ocean away.
If there had been an upright dispenser, similar to the kitchen paper towel holder, I wonder if it would have been a "from the left pull or the right pull," argument.My grandmother put the tissue under the roll, which drove my mother nuts, hence I was raised in an 'over the roll' household.
If there had been an upright dispenser, similar to the kitchen paper towel holder, I wonder if it would have been a "from the left pull or the right pull," argument.
Groan! Don't you start, you sound like someone I know, whose not too far away. Right way. wrong way, there's only two ways. The tissue either hangs down from the front or the back, what's the big deal? At least she drew the line at copying the habit of hotels, whereby they fold the tissue into a 'V' shape point.
@LizzieMaine
"Condensed-milk" into your coffee, still typical east-german (my parents, too). Urgh!! Is this still known, in the US?
In the American Midwest of my early years, coffee drinkers who added anything other than sugar to their coffee typically used what is called "half-and-half," which is half cream and half whole milk. The stuff is still made, but I rarely see it anymore.
...and if the paper is patterned it is facing outwards.
When I was a small child I thought that the queen was too posh to....... Mother didn't help when she told me, with a straight face, that the queen swallowed her toilet paper and it came out wrapped. I believed her.
Patterned toilet paper? The very flag of the decadent bourgeoisie.
Once did some work for a gent who had 14k gold plated faucets in his privvy. Had a gold plated handle to flush his throne with, too. Talk about flying that flag.
Patterned toilet paper? The very flag of the decadent bourgeoisie.
If there had been an upright dispenser, similar to the kitchen paper towel holder, I wonder if it would have been a "from the left pull or the right pull," argument.
It would have been.
Both my mother and grandmother tried to get me to help them in their war... no. But it was amusing to see them make any excuse to get in the bathroom... there were a few times the roll went back and forth several times in a single visit...