While we're doing comparative foodstuffs, can I enquire of Americans what exactly classic American apple pie entails? I have images in my head-- of what I'd call apple crumble-- but I suspect I'm wildly off the mark. Enlighen me?
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Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 02, 2003 9:06:54 am PDT #6099 of 9843
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P.M. Marc - Aug 02, 2003 9:17:32 am PDT #6100 of 9843
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While we're doing comparative foodstuffs, can I enquire of Americans what exactly classic American apple pie entails? I have images in my head-- of what I'd call apple crumble-- but I suspect I'm wildly off the mark. Enlighen me?
Typo Boy - Aug 02, 2003 9:18:26 am PDT #6101 of 9843
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Classic American pie has bottom pie crust, and apple based filling and a top pie crust. Someone once told me it was actually invented in Egypt.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 02, 2003 9:21:51 am PDT #6102 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Thank you. It's good to know these things.
Trudy Booth - Aug 02, 2003 9:35:10 am PDT #6103 of 9843
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As to the odd flavored bagels: Well the classics are still available. But once you allow cinammon-raisin, I don't see how you can excluded all the other sweet flavors. Similarly given garlic and onion bagels, I don't see how you can arbitrarily exclude the Jalepano and so forth.
Mind you, garlic, onion and plain are still my favorites..
If some poor starving Jew in the shtetl could acquire the ingredient it's permitted. Did Bubbe have jalepenos? I think not.
Since, by definition, an "everything" bagel is the set of all possible bagels, if something has an ingredient in it that isn't in an everything bagel, then it isn't a bagel.
Tom is wise. Rasins are merely an exception and should remain the SOLE exception.
Go nuts with the cream cheese, people. Have at. Put olives or chives or pickled baby toes in it for all I care.
Fiona - Aug 02, 2003 9:40:07 am PDT #6104 of 9843
A quick Google reveals all sorts of pronuciations for the word 'scone': it can rhyme with bone, with gone or with moon.
Actually, I think it's only the Scottish town (also spelled Scone) which is pronounced to rhyme with moon. Or if anyone else does, they're weird. Ah, the scone pronunciation wars will probably never end.
Are UK muffins the same as what Americans call English Muffins? I.e., little flat bread-y circles that you cut in two and find lots of little holes ("nooks and crannies") into which to spread butter?
Actually, this sounds to me more like what the English call crumpets. Toasted, with butter which melts into the holes - mmmmm....
Am-Chau Yarkona - Aug 02, 2003 9:43:55 am PDT #6105 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Actually, this sounds to me more like what the English call crumpets. Toasted, with butter which melts into the holes - mmmmm....
Yes... although it's never occured to me to cut those in half. The holes are there on the outside. And honey.... yum....
Burrell - Aug 02, 2003 10:07:33 am PDT #6106 of 9843
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Crumpets are totally different from what the Muricans call English muffins. What is it that the English call muffins?
Holli - Aug 02, 2003 12:59:05 pm PDT #6107 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
But cinammon raisin has always been there. Never been my favorite either (I agree that a bagel is ideally a vehical for creamcheese and lox.)
I like cinnamon raisin bagels with cream cheese and lox. It's weird, but tasty.
evil jimi - Aug 02, 2003 1:09:38 pm PDT #6108 of 9843
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It was widely noticed when they had Giles pronounce the word scone as rhyming with bone, instead of what would have been the correct British way.
There was an episode of ... I want to say The Goodies but I'm not 100% certain ... where the characters had a running argument of, "scone (bone)" "scone (gone)". So, as has already been noted, Giles' pronunciation of the word was not incorrect per sé.
I guess now would be a bad time to mention "scone" pronounced as "skeen" :)