Re: [CH] Felt a bit Crabby
Ted Wagner (trwagner1@yahoo.com)
Thu, 8 May 2003 04:36:56 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks everyone. What a great cultural lesson from me. I was wrong
even when I figured it out! wow.
Sorry about that everyone. Like I said, too much beer for me in the
past.
Ted
--- Doug Irvine <dougandmarie@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Ted Wagner wrote:
> > Walt my friend, please don't take offense here, I'm just a bit
> foggy on
> > the brain today....had too much of Juanita's Picante sauce.
> >
> > Let me get this straight. Crab...as in spinldly legged pinching
> crabs
> > and blue crabs and Alaskan King crab type crabs, right?
> >
> > And, you said tea....as in Earl Gray and such? Crab + tea? Hmmmm
> > never heard of a cobination such as this. Perhaps I'm missing the
> true
> > meaning in the "true" English english to American english language
> > transfer. Tea as in broth or tea as in the Earl Gray variety?
> >
> Wrong! Limey(whoops!)tea, as in "have it for tea" means supper on
> this
> continent because Tea as opposed to Dinner, which is middle of the
> day
> meal, or not,depending on the day, is the meal eaten in late mid
> afternoon, and if a lunch was had that day as well, then Dinner would
> be
> much later in the evening. Confused yet? We in British Columbia, eat
> normal meals at normal times, but the British still maintain the old
> traditional way of eating, which likely started way back when the
> breadwinner did not arrive home from his long day of labour, until
> nearly 7:00 PM, and whereas his wife had already had tea in the late
> afternoon, he prbably had stopped off at the pub and consumed a
> couple!
> Cheers, Doug on Vancouver Island
>
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