thats a pig in a blanket.
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Oh, man !
You’ve gotta be kiddin’!
People can actually eat something like that… without Marmite ! ?
this aint your time Glutes,piggie in a blanket got you thinkin at this late hour eh?
this is my time 
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So…
What time is it?
Where I come from, a pig-in-a-blanket is ground beef and rice (cooked) and ketchup wrapped in a cabbage leaf.
OINK!
what time is it? its late thats what!
your messages start gassin about 6 or 7 am ( 8 hours from now) pacific time.i like this though im so alone at this hour. wheres GILD he posts in this time zone.
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It’s a holiday!
No need to be restrained by regular workaday schedules!
Besides, I’m an insomniac.
Gild must be on vacation/holiday/whatever they call it down there. Or, his computer’s down.
ya its been awile.he posted that pic of him next to that black obalisck(SP?) thing and nothing since 
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Maybe we should PING him.
Since you asked; “obelisk”. Yeah, that eclipse pic was very … what can I say…? … very, Industrial Light and Magical!
Just to satisfy the Off-Topic Police, maybe we should mention some other American Delicacies that People from other countries just hate .
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, anyone?
I’m talking about CRUNCHY style, with PINEAPPLE preserves!
If I may continue OT:
Where I come from
“Pigs in a Blanket” are link sausages wrapped in a Pancake, generously slathered with butter and drenched in Maple Syrup.
A Deep South Delicacy
Couldn’t make it through a hot August afternoon without stopping for an RC Cola and a Moonpie.
Next time you’re in Memphis, Tennessee
You can eat the finest BBQ Pork at a different restaurant each meal for 3 years straight. (Or drop by my backyard).
mmmmmmmmmmm:p mmmmmmmmmmm!
Round these parts ‘pigs in blankets’ are sausages wrapped in bacon… nice.
I think I’ll give the hot-dog sausage a miss.
To answer the age-old pig-in-a-blanket question:
Moonpies taste like some marshmallow inbetween two pieces of cardboard covered in chocolate. But they’re not too bad. 
Nikki
Chocolate? I’ve never been impressed by Moonpies, but I’m not a big marshmallow fan either. The times I have tasted a Moonpie, the alleged chocolate covering didn’t have much taste.
I once lived in the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia where we learned that one of the specialties was a chili hotdog covered with cole slaw. We hesitated at first but found that it was surprisingly good.
Maybe we’re heading for an addition to future UNICONs, the cultural culinary experience hour where the host country puts on their finest in exquisite or traditional foods. Would be fun!
Email sent to Jack Halpern
I sent the following email to Jack Halpern:
Jack,
I’ve maintained that the international experience was one of my family’s most valuable experiences at our first UNICON in Seattle. The root beer, twinkie and Hershey’s thing between the Brits and Americans was fun. After we returned home, I posted a thread to RSU entitled “I’m going to try Marmite” and the subject seems to have blossumed into a lot of back and forth on various cultural food experiences. Currently on RSU, we’re discussing the tastes (or lack thereof) of Moonpies and Pigs-in-a-blanket.
Here’s my suggestion. I believe there is more to an international gathering than just the meet-and-compete activities. As part of an in-depth experience and in light of all the culinary discussion since Seattle, I think it would be fun for each UNICON host country to put on a time of exquisite or traditional food trying…or maybe it could be something else all together like perhaps a display of traditional dancing or the like. In Seattle, we had a fun and games time on a Thursday night at Mt. Si High School. Maybe that could have been the time for such a display of cultural foods. Or perhaps we could have put on a dramatic representation of the Old American Cowboy West during public show. I suppose it could be anything that served to increase the education of the differences in cultures, which is a dynamic means of breaking down barriers.
I think it would be fun, especially for a host country’s committee to put something together. I encourage you to give it some thought. Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Bruce
While we’re this far OT: I had my first Yorkshire Pudding at Christmas.
Maybe one of you chaps can explain why its nothing at all like pudding. More like what we call “popovers”.
Pudding is the stuff we ask our women-folk to wrestle in at bars. Wrestling covered in Yorkshire Pudding wouldn’t be erotic at all.
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> beer, twinkie and Hershey’s thing between the Brits and Americans was
> fun.
Damn you, I thought I could forget the dreadful experience of Hershey
chocolate. Yet you resurrect the name and remind me of it 
It
really is the only chocolate I have seen school kids like less than
broccoli. .
I feel that even the famed traditional Scottish delicacy (is it from the
Glasgow area mainly?) of deep fried Mars Bar, would become totally
unpalatable if made from this American Hershey stuff.
The Europeans were trying to stop Cadbury from calling their products
“chocolate”. How dare they! They should aim their guns at the other side
of the big pond.
Naomi
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Memphis Mud wrote:
> While we’re this far OT: I had my first Yorkshire Pudding at
> Christmas.
>
> Maybe one of you chaps can explain why its nothing at all like pudding.
> More like what we call “popovers”.
A Yorkshire Pudding tastes just like pudding - a Yorkshire pudding, anyway.
Sure, it’s not like a suet pudding, or a chocolate pudding, or a treacle
pudding, or a rice pudding, or a black pudding. They’re all completely
different, but still puddings.
Hmm, I wonder how the OED defines pudding. Hang on…
noun
*(1) a cooked sweet dish served after the main course of a meal.
*[mass noun] chiefly Brit. the dessert course of a meal.
*N. Amer. a dessert with a soft or creamy consistency.
*(2) a sweet or savoury steamed dish made with suet and flour.
*the intestines of a pig or sheep stuffed with oatmeal, spices and meat and
boiled. See also Black Pudding.
*informal a fat, dumpy or stupid person.
So it looks like English and American definitions of pudding may be
different anyway, but it’s interesting that none of those definitions covers
Yorkshire puddings. Must just be because Yorkshiremen are odd.
And while I’m looking through the dictionary:
Popover: noun N. Amer a very light cake made from a thin batter, which rises
to form a hollow shell when baked.
Hey, that sounds just like a Yorkshire pudding 
The OED defines Yorkshire pudding slightly differently though:
a baked batter pudding typically eaten with roast beef.
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That’s how we had it. And quite excellent it was, I might ad.
Loveliest Wife gave me a nice present as well. She found a place here in Memphis that lets you build your own 6 pack of beer from around the world. I’ve been sampling one each evening since. Coincidentally, the first I had was bottled in Yorkshire. Odd or no, somebody up there can brew a mighty fine bottle of ale.
(Czechoslovakian and Irish beer are full bodied and tasty. I didn’t like the Japanese variety.)