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All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.

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Hil R. - Feb 17, 2003 3:02:41 pm PST #1936 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

The best are those gelatin recipes from the '40s and '50s. Looking through old women's magazines for a project, I found dozens of variations of "Disolve 1 envelope Knox's gelatine in water. Mix in mayonnaise. Pour into mold. Let partially set. Stir in cooked chopped chicken, chopped celery, and chopped carrots. Let set." One concluded with, "slice and serve on Wonder Bread with mayonnaise."


amych - Feb 17, 2003 3:03:54 pm PST #1937 of 9843
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

The best are those gelatin recipes from the '40s and '50s.

I maintain that the worst recipe of all time, anywhere on earth, is the "salad" made of lemon jello and corned beef.


Trudy Booth - Feb 17, 2003 3:17:46 pm PST #1938 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I think spearmint milk has to be one of the most disgusting concoctions you Aussies have ever come up with

Is there a whole range of milk flavors in Oz?

"Disolve 1 envelope Knox's gelatine in water. Mix in mayonnaise. Pour into mold. Let partially set. Stir in cooked chopped chicken, chopped celery, and chopped carrots. Let set." One concluded with, "slice and serve on Wonder Bread with mayonnaise."

Yet ANOTHER righteous reason for the civil rights movement. We could NOT leave those people in charge of everything.


Hil R. - Feb 17, 2003 4:55:36 pm PST #1939 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Another recipe from those magazines was "Man-Style Macaroni." It was basically macaroni and cheese, but it had several hot dogs sliced in half lengthwise and laid on top, and one hot dog stuck into the middle, pointing straight up, with a little flag on a toothpick stuck in the end. It was from an ad for cheese, I think, and the ad copy read something like, "A macaroni dish even the men and boys in your life will love!" In addition to the picture of the macaroni, there was a picture of a guy with a fork in his mouth and a huge grin.


Susan W. - Feb 17, 2003 5:59:49 pm PST #1940 of 9843
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I've been amusing myself on lileks.com most of the afternoon.

Weiners make food macho.


Kate P. - Feb 17, 2003 7:36:47 pm PST #1941 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Kate P. I'm taping and I'm sure we'll be able to sort out a viewing - maybe in exchange for a peek at a certain tattoo ;)

Woohoo! Thanks, plasmo!

Is there a whole range of milk flavors in Oz?

Yup: chocolate, strawberry, coffee, banana, and spearmint... am I forgetting any?


Angus G - Feb 17, 2003 8:16:39 pm PST #1942 of 9843
Roguish Laird

So, what's the American dish that unAmericans utterly fail to get the point of?

Oh my God, where do I start? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Oreos? (They taste like charcoal.) Crackers with soup?

Kate, I am most certainly taping Buffy and Angel, so you and I and Plasmo will in one way or another manage to get together for a viewing (among other fun things of course!)

I've never heard of Spearmint Milk in my life. It must be a Perth thing. It sounds disgusting.


meara - Feb 17, 2003 8:45:33 pm PST #1943 of 9843

OK, though I don't eat them often, I do love PB&J. And don't get how you can not get it. But...crackers with soup? What's not to understand about that???


Hil R. - Feb 17, 2003 8:47:30 pm PST #1944 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oreos?

The point of Oreos is not the taste. The point is twisting them.

Australians don't eat crackers with soup? Chowder just seems un-chowdery to me without them.

I've tried banana milk before. It was OK, but I couldn't figure out where it fit into a meal or snack. It was too sweet to drink with the meal, but it seemed weird with dessert, and I can't see having it as a snack. But my eating habits with respect to sweet foods tend to be very odd, so probably no one else would have this problem.


Burrell - Feb 17, 2003 8:47:42 pm PST #1945 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I maintain that the worst recipe of all time, anywhere on earth, is the "salad" made of lemon jello and corned beef.

That sounds truly vile. Here's one to match it, urk for urk: banana & anchovy salad. It came from a recipe book for bananas. Take banana, cut in half lengthwise. Put anchony on banana. Serve.