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But Christmas was over ages ago! (Oh, no, it wasn’t!) | M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. Crimbo Comes but Once a Year. January 28, 2014 · 5:03 PM. But Christmas was over ages ago! Oh, no, it wasn’t! British readers will probably find the headline for this post trite, a cliche; American readers probably won’t know why. Read on to find out.). You think Christmas is long gone? The Genie of the Ring (Alison Moulden) and the Genie of the Lamp (Andy Wells) at a neighbourhood production of Aladdin this season. Yes, it’s short for. A panto is ostensibly a ...

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog | Life in the UK seen from a US-adapted eye | Page 2

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. Newer posts →. February 22, 2013 · 4:37 PM. Britain’s National Health Service, or Socialized Medicine is the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread. Far and away the best access to care I’ve ever had. What follows the first image below is a post about the NHS that I wrote in March 2012 when I was guest blogger at Vie Hebdomadaires. Why would she think I would go to the trouble of posting a recommendation for a system that’s not any good? Okay, we can agree to disagree a...

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An English Christmas 5: Christmas is Coming, the Goose is Getting Fat | M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. An English Christmas 4: Boxing Day. Let’s Talk About the Weather →. December 30, 2009 · 8:03 PM. An English Christmas 5: Christmas is Coming, the Goose is Getting Fat. Okay, Christmas has not only come but gone. But I had some goose fat left over and used it to make roast potatoes last night, so I thought I’d extend my mostly culinary description of a British Christmas to tell you about this delicacy. A dish of roast potatoes in my kitchen. I’ll keep my goose f...

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As American as Chipolatas and Grits | M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. 11/11/11 : A Dublin Taxi Adventure. Small Pleasures →. December 6, 2011 · 6:05 PM. As American as Chipolatas and Grits. A post about Thanksgiving, grits, condos, cooties, enchiladas, and other things that my British neighbors don’t quite get. I wrote about roast potatoes a couple of years ago. Long, skinny link sausages, that is. A tray of skinny chipolatas and fat sausages. Then again, Kentucky. About twice as far from Mexico as Arkansas, Arkansas being a.

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An English Christmas 3: Bring Us a Figgy Pudding | M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. An English Christmas 2: Mince Pies In Royal David’s City. An English Christmas 4: Boxing Day →. December 26, 2009 · 1:56 AM. An English Christmas 3: Bring Us a Figgy Pudding. Don't want to make your own? Traveltrade.visitlondon.com posts this photo with a suggestion that you buy your pudding from Fortnum and Mason. And Christmas puddings are soaked with spirits as is pretty much everything in the United Kingdom at Christmastime, including the inhabitants. Of co...

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Crimbo Comes but Once a Year | M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. The shortest, least-hyped-up piece you’ll read about the new royal baby. But Christmas was over ages ago! Oh, no, it wasn’t! January 1, 2014 · 3:49 PM. Crimbo Comes but Once a Year. A dish of clementines on my dining room window sill. Apologies for the vaguely noir-ish. What you put on the tree) and. What you put under it). As for Christmas dinner, the British eat. Oddly, the four-syllable word. Is already taken, and. Overloaded as it is;. Can mean a fish-and-c...

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Dipso Fatso Bingo Asbo Tesco | M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog

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M E Foley's Anglo-American Experience Blog. The Bomb is Still Ticking. Why Did the Pelican Cross the Road? August 21, 2009 · 7:11 PM. Dipso Fatso Bingo Asbo Tesco. The question of what Britishness means crops up often over here. In the twenty-first century, with a population more blended than ever before with different races and religions and lifestyles, is there such a thing as Britishness? And if there is er, what does it look like? Refer to Sebastian as a dipso.). Here’s a tip: Americans do not cross ...