On Saturday 01 October 2011 21:39:29 Weaver wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:17:08 -0400 (EDT) > > Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: [snip] > > > > P.S. Don't ask for a napkin at a restaurant in Australia. > > You'll get very strange looks! Ask for a serviette. > > To them, a napkin is, um, well, never mind. Oh! Good to know, mate. Up to now I mistakenly asumed that Marmite and Vegemite were the only - exasperating but harmless - differences between the island among the North Sea and the Irish Sea and the vast island within the big southern pond. (I don't know on how many toes I stepped with this oversimplification - forgive me, please)
[snip] Weaver went on weaving this in: > > Not too far out. > The different teas are: morning tea, which is mid-morning; afternoon > tea - mid-afternoon; Devonshire tea, which is usually with whipped > cream rather than the original Devonshire clotted cream, because it's > not available elsewhere and can be had at any time of day; and > 'high-tea' which is a formal tea and in association with a light > meal predominated by cakes and pastries. I believe this latter to be > a translation of the german Kaffeklatszche (spelling?) Kaffeeklatsch But that's not a meal nor tea-time, it's a gossiping round of elderly ladies around a coffee table at or around 5pm. The table loaded with cakes and cream tarts and coffee in fine Meissen porcelain. The coffee in the pot maintained warm by a hood made of kitchy crotchet work. Most entertaining how this thread is turning and winding ;-) -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110020931.07289.zp6...@gmx.net
