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Salt and chilli squid is amazeballs!0
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Why is an orange named orange put a grape ain't named purple gets on my nerves0
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Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?1
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Haha, this made me chuckle this morning... one exception, we didn't wear helmets in the 80's
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?
There is a word for dried apricots, 'curaga' (or 'kuraga'), but not in English0 -
Strivetobebetter76 wrote: »Haha, this made me chuckle this morning... one exception, we didn't wear helmets in the 80's
Having seen head and neck injuries with and without helmets first hand, I'd rather be called a *kitten* and wear a helmet thanks.
..and I was born in the 80's.0 -
MrStabbems wrote: »Strivetobebetter76 wrote: »Haha, this made me chuckle this morning... one exception, we didn't wear helmets in the 80's
Having seen head and neck injuries with and without helmets first hand, I'd rather be called a *kitten* and wear a helmet thanks.
..and I was born in the 80's.
I'm not knocking head and neck injuries cuz they certainly are nothing to laugh about. I just thought the meme was funny and gave me a chuckle. As a kid, I had no cares. But now that I'm older, of course I prefer to be more safe.2 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?
There is a word for dried apricots, 'curaga' (or 'kuraga'), but not in English
Lol..yeah ..I should have specified in english
It was actually a question posed to me by my son.0 -
from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven..."
But I ask you....if the quality of mercy is not strain'd, how do you keep it from getting lumpy?2 -
Something is seriously wrong with the education system when the most common adult nightmare is that you're still in school.0
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?
Sultana? Did I just learn what they call raisins down under?0 -
slimgirljo15 wrote: »Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?
Sultana? Did I just learn what they call raisins down under?
We have both Cee..raisins are larger in appearance..sultanas darker ..
I found this..not sure if its 100% though as somewhere said raisins were a different grape..
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In the USA and Canada, the name "raisin" is applied to all dried grapes, so that the breakfast cereal known as "sultana bran" in Australia and the United Kingdom is called raisin bran in the United States andCanada.[2]
Technically Cee I guess you are correct....you would call our sultanas raisins..
Here you can buy boxes of sultanas or raisins..both available0 -
Sea salt mix does really work for pain on nose piercings.1
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slimgirljo15 wrote: »slimgirljo15 wrote: »Why is it we call a dried plum a prune, a dried grape a sultana ..yet no other word for dried apricot?
Sultana? Did I just learn what they call raisins down under?
We have both Cee..raisins are larger in appearance..sultanas darker ..
I found this..not sure if its 100% though as somewhere said raisins were a different grape..
In the store I think they just call them golden raisins.1 -
In fifteen years, I'll be complaining to kids that they don't make memes like they used to.2
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With various things in life, I either find myself giving too many *kitten* or no *kitten* at all. It's like I can't find a middle ground for moderate *kitten* distribution.3
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Does my cat think the pizza delivery guy is my owner because he brings me food?3
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