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Originally posted by gazbom56
reply to post by FlyersFan
Yeah I agree with you and I'm not trying to wind anybody up but I also read somewere the British and the American's were the two lost tribes of Isreal! Just a thought.
Gazbom.
Originally posted by gazbom56
reply to post by Shazam The Unbowed
The Aboriginals are the inventors of the bbq, you my friend can hold on to the claim of corn on the cob!
Originally posted by Freeborn
Of course Corn is American no-one denies that, jst that it's very bland and not really worth bragging about.
I leave here shaking my head in dismay at the strength and validity of your arguement.
Originally posted by Shazam The Unbowed
Originally posted by gazbom56
reply to post by Shazam The Unbowed
The Aboriginals are the inventors of the bbq, you my friend can hold on to the claim of corn on the cob!
No. Not even close.
Sorry, nice try, come again.
The origins of both the activity of barbecue cooking and the word itself are somewhat obscure. Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives ultimately from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean. The word translates as sacred fire pit and is also spelled barbicoa or barabicoa.[2] The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks. Traditional barbacoa involves digging a hole in the ground and placing some meat (usually a whole goat) with a pot underneath it, so that the juices can make a hearty broth. It is then covered with maguey leaves and coal and set alight. The cooking process takes a few hours. There is ample evidence that both the word and cooking technique migrated out of the Caribbean and into other cultures and languages, with the word moving from Caribbean dialects into Spanish, then French and English. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language in 1697 by the British buccaneer William Dampier.
Originally posted by Liamoville
Only Americans could class Fried Food as an Art Form! Keep going, you're amusing me
Originally posted by Shazam The Unbowed
And only a Brit could think that fried green tomatoes, or blood pudding is actually food.
Originally posted by malganis
so why are we still eating it? why do we still love the smell of an english breakfast in the morning, a traditional roast dinner on a sunday, the yorkshire puddings coming out of the oven, etc? just because you don't like it doesn't mean that other people don't. in fact i happen to know a lot of foreigners (europeans, africans, etc) that enjoy traditional British food when they are here.
what do you think that Britain is just a big prison or something? we do what we like when we like as long as it doesn't break the law. what decent 'freedoms' do you have in the states then? being able to threaten each other with guns, oooh well i wish we could do that over here...
The only problem with Britain is that we are becoming too politically correct and touchy of hurting people's feelings. A couple of hundred years ago and the Royal Navy would have blown any boat out of the water that threatened it's sailors. That said, under threat in proper wartime the political correctness crap would go out of the window, just ask the Argies.
Originally posted by Jibbs
The origins of both the activity of barbecue cooking and the word itself are somewhat obscure. Most etymologists believe that barbecue derives ultimately from the word barabicu found in the language of the Taíno people of the Caribbean. The word translates as sacred fire pit and is also spelled barbicoa or barabicoa.[2] The word describes a grill for cooking meat, consisting of a wooden platform resting on sticks. Traditional barbacoa involves digging a hole in the ground and placing some meat (usually a whole goat) with a pot underneath it, so that the juices can make a hearty broth. It is then covered with maguey leaves and coal and set alight. The cooking process takes a few hours. There is ample evidence that both the word and cooking technique migrated out of the Caribbean and into other cultures and languages, with the word moving from Caribbean dialects into Spanish, then French and English. The Oxford English Dictionary cites the first recorded use of the word in the English language in 1697 by the British buccaneer William Dampier.
Originally posted by TheOmen
As for cuisine, I want to hear more from this american kid, come on tell us more of your fantastic grub? You do know that without us Brits, you wouldn't exist?
Most of your population is people from England Ireland Scotland and Wales emigrating to the US.
Peace out
tO
Originally posted by TheOmen
reply to post by Shazam The Unbowed
Ok the actual BBQ, by that I mean the modern metal apparatus was in fact in fact invented in the 1800s by cowboys in the US.
However, your claim of cheesecake is false.
Cheesecake has been recorded as far back as 776 B.C so USA was even the tadpole in its daddy.
Originally posted by shuck
I Look at them this way hardly any hype or BS with the men..they get in there do their best knock seven bells out of each other and when its over ...the best man has won...and they hug and congratulate each other....its something I don't see much of in other countries!!....
Its the fairness I think !!.....