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29/11/2006 12:43:42
 
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Forum:
Movies
Category:
Box office
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01172439
Message ID:
01173377
Views:
12
>>>Those were English, easy to confuse the accent. They eat crumpets, we eat doughnuts.
>>
>>We eat crumpets?
>
>Sure, they don't mess up the bowler hats like powered doughnuts do.
>
>>We imported the practice of eating "English Muffins" from over there.
>
>I thought you were kidding, you know taking the p_ss until, but...
>"Despite the name, English muffins are not as popular in England as they are in North America"
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin
>
>McDonald's commerical here. Scene starts with two guys eating a McDonald's breakfast. One eating a blueberry muffin, the 2nd guy is eating an Egg McMuffin.
>One: Why do they call that a muffin, this is a muffin?
>Two: It is an English muffin.
>One: If I go to England and ask for a muffin, they'll give me one of those?
>Two: Yeah
>One: What if what one of these (American) muffins.
>Two: Don't go to England.

Not to mention Yorkshire Pudding. I mean, jeez! Those guys have some funny idea of what pudding is. Pudding is what comes in a small cup or bowl and is usually stuck in a kid's lunchbox. What it never is, is a bun.
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