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Bruce wrote:
Joan E. wrote: Bruce wrote: Nice idea but our local shop rarely has cut flowers for sale. I suppose I could buy a small pot plant instead but it isn't really the same is it? ROTFL!!!!! Bruce, you might want to stick with *potted* plants....they're not illegal! Sorry, I couldn't resist and I'm surprised no one else picked up on this before me! It must be a local idiom - people tend to say "pot plant" rather than "potted plant". Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the term would also be "pot plant". Lizzy |
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On Jun 19, 7:43 am, Lizzy Taylor wrote:
Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the term would also be "pot plant". Yup, that's the term in NZ too, so I suspect it's very common in the UK and therefore NZ and Australia too. Nobody calls anything a "potted plant" around here. VP |
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On 6/18/07 1:44 PM, "Bruce" wrote:
Joan E. wrote: Bruce wrote: Nice idea but our local shop rarely has cut flowers for sale. I suppose I could buy a small pot plant instead but it isn't really the same is it? ROTFL!!!!! Bruce, you might want to stick with *potted* plants....they're not illegal! Sorry, I couldn't resist and I'm surprised no one else picked up on this before me! It must be a local idiom - people tend to say "pot plant" rather than "potted plant". But there have been several cases, including one not too far from here, where people have grown illegal plants - purely for medicinal purposes of course. LOL - I think this is one of those differences in our common language. As I recall, IME, the phrase "pot plant" referring to what we'd call a "potted plant" was common in all the part of the UK that I visited/lived. So, I don't think it's a local idiom. Kind of like "commentator" - here we just say someone "commenting" not "commentating". ellice |
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Vintage Purls wrote:
On Jun 19, 7:43 am, Lizzy Taylor wrote: Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the term would also be "pot plant". Yup, that's the term in NZ too, so I suspect it's very common in the UK and therefore NZ and Australia too. Nobody calls anything a "potted plant" around here. And just to confuse the issue - does the USA have an equivalent to British "delicacy" potted meat? Cue disgusting retching sounds blech, ptui, ptah, ptah etc... -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) |
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We do have potted meat, but I don't know if it is the same product you get in the UK or not. Our potted meat is a somewhat salty, tinned meat paste, made from mysterious meat parts. AFAIK, it is served cold spread on crackers or in sandwiches. Potted meat, mysterious as it's source may be, is far superior to SPAM "luncheon meat" (gag), which is truly nasty. I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat. The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and compressed to remove most of the water. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) |
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"Bruce" wrote in message ... me wrote: We do have potted meat, but I don't know if it is the same product you get in the UK or not. Our potted meat is a somewhat salty, tinned meat paste, made from mysterious meat parts. AFAIK, it is served cold spread on crackers or in sandwiches. Potted meat, mysterious as it's source may be, is far superior to SPAM "luncheon meat" (gag), which is truly nasty. I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat. The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and compressed to remove most of the water. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) I was born and raised in the US and I'm happy to report that I've never seen or heard of what you call potted meat and you know what, I don't think I'm missing anything. It sounds ich, ach, ptui and if indeed it's worse than SPAM, it must be truly horrific. Lucille |
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Lucille lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net wrote: "Bruce" wrote in message ... me wrote: We do have potted meat, but I don't know if it is the same product you get in the UK or not. Our potted meat is a somewhat salty, tinned meat paste, made from mysterious meat parts. AFAIK, it is served cold spread on crackers or in sandwiches. Potted meat, mysterious as it's source may be, is far superior to SPAM "luncheon meat" (gag), which is truly nasty. I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat. The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and compressed to remove most of the water. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) I was born and raised in the US and I'm happy to report that I've never seen or heard of what you call potted meat and you know what, I don't think I'm missing anything. It sounds ich, ach, ptui and if indeed it's worse than SPAM, it must be truly horrific. I think traditional potted meat was a home preserving method, same as confit. Cook a duck cut up the meat, put in a crock pot and pour in the fat rendered from cooking while still hot. Cover and store somplace cool. If it doesn't get contaminated, it will keep a long time. -Liz |
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Here in California, one can have a pot plant for certain medical conditions.
It seems to me that addiction to yarn is a medical condition, and therefore fiber artists should be allowed their flax and hemp - we should get law passed that says if you are addicted to fiber so badly that you have a spinning wheel, you should be allowed a pot plant. Aaron "Bruce" wrote in message ... Vintage Purls wrote: On Jun 19, 7:43 am, Lizzy Taylor wrote: Where I grew up in SE England and where I now live in NW England the term would also be "pot plant". Yup, that's the term in NZ too, so I suspect it's very common in the UK and therefore NZ and Australia too. Nobody calls anything a "potted plant" around here. And just to confuse the issue - does the USA have an equivalent to British "delicacy" potted meat? Cue disgusting retching sounds blech, ptui, ptah, ptah etc... -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) |
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Lucille wrote:
I suspect the two things are products of the same process; "machine recovered meat", a process whereby the bones of butchered creatures are blasted with high pressure water to remove any remaining traces of meat. The resulting watery slurry is then scraped from the floor and compressed to remove most of the water. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) I was born and raised in the US and I'm happy to report that I've never seen or heard of what you call potted meat and you know what, I don't think I'm missing anything. It sounds ich, ach, ptui and if indeed it's worse than SPAM, it must be truly horrific. Lucille Look in the supermarket aisle where the Spam, deviled ham, and other canned meats are kept. Potted meat lives there. Canned meat as food came about around WWII, I believe, when most everything that tasted good was reserved for the military, and ration tickets were required for all those items. A little potted meat flavored the beans if nothing else. -- Joanne stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ |
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Pogonip wrote:
Look in the supermarket aisle where the Spam, deviled ham, and other canned meats are kept. Potted meat lives there. Canned meat as food came about around WWII, I believe, when most everything that tasted good was reserved for the military, and ration tickets were required for all those items. A little potted meat flavored the beans if nothing else. Canned meat came quite a while before WW2 - in 1867 the Royal Victoria Yard (England) began to issue tinned mutton to warships at Portsmouth, Hampshire UK on a trial basis. There were problems with botulism until they got the canning process properly sorted out. -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney www.stronsay.co.uk/claremont (Remove teeth to reply) |
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