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Smerk
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 | 10:40 PM
Okay, so Kool Aid is dehydrated faux fruit juice, Flavor Aid is dehydrated fizzy sugared water, which needs both water and sugar added...
We also use cool drink to define the carbonated non-alcoholic beverage too. |
Rod
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 | 10:48 PM
In Canada, Jello is Jello, so called because of the brand name.
Jam is jam.
And jelly is jam with no fruit pieces in it. It's thinner and consequently runnier that way.
Wow, I never figured I'd ever be having a conversation aboot the different names for gelatin and jelly.
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Rod
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 | 10:56 PM
Kool Aid comes in two kinds; without sugar added yet, and with sugar added. The kind without the added sugar comes in little packets, the kind with sugar comes in big canisters.
If you don't add sugar, well, it's your own fault when your head sucks in like Wile E. Coyote's.
But making Kool Aid without sugar at someone else's house and leaving it in the fridge, well, that's just hilarity at its best, especially if you're around to watch someone take a drink.
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Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:14 AM
Right, okay...Actually, having had a chance to think about it, I think we can get dehydrated lemonade. We definitely get this stuff called Lemsip, which is only related via the fact that you need to add (hot) water and sugar (it's a medicinal drink with paracetamol in it)
Ooh, do you guys get cordial?
You're right, never thought I'd have a discussion about different food products of USA/Canada and Australia. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:31 AM
Is cordial like Ribena?
If so, we (Americans) really don't, although we do have concentrated liquid drinks...they're not all that popular, though, except for small children. There are also frozen cans of drinks like orange juice and lemonade, but those are pretty gross; you're better off buying fresh if you can manage it. |
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:32 AM
Er, that should read "frozen cans of CONCENTRATED drinks." |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:40 AM
Cordial's the syrupy concentrated faux fruit drink - just add water...plenty of sugar already included to make you're kids really hyper! Frozen drinks? We definitely don't get them frozen. |
Rod
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:46 AM
We get the frozen concentrates here as well.
My mom used to buy concentrated juices from a company called Schwann's. I found this on their website. They used to have about six flavours, but it looks like they're down to one.
Roughly the same thing?
I've never seen these concentrates in anything but real fruit juice. |
Rod
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:51 AM
Actually, it looks like they still have more, but they won't let me see unles I have a US zipcode. So, 90210 to the rescue!
Yup, they've got a lot, still.
See?
Wow, it looks as though they don't use 100 percent juice in anything but the first link I sent. Apparently 15 percent is enough for everything else. |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 12:58 AM
The most common brand of concentrate here is Cottee's
I realise now that I was being a bit sarcastic and getting my info incorrect...8.4g of sugar per 100g of diluted cordial when made up correct isn't too bad... |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:00 AM
He he he, Rod wrote Mom! Sorry, it just looks silly to me. I'm so used to seeing Mum. |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:05 AM
Nettie, isn't it hard trying to type everything incorrectly so that the Yankees can understand it? I had great fun trying to drop the 'u' out of flavour. So many times I had to go back and delete...  |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:17 AM
I know! It can be quite funny at times. And it's not just the spelling but also some of the colloqualisms (I know I spelt that wrong). I've noticed a couple of times people have asked us what the hell we meant by a paticular word and I've had to stop and think 'Shit, they wouldn't know what that means would they?"
Gee, what we really need is for everyone to just speak aussie! |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:20 AM
Yup...definitely agree with that one! Did you know that mull is not a universal term for pot? |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:26 AM
Ohmygod! That's odd. I've never even tried pot (I'm a good girl!) but my older sister is a bit of a pot head so I've heard most of the names. |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:30 AM
Oooh, now I feel like a rebel! I tried it at a friends 18th...not enough to affect me (one drag on a joint). She did the wrong thing by getting extremely pissed and stoned at the same time! Well, she was turning 18! |
Nettie
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 07:33 AM
I've never even tried a smoke but I have asthma and I have trouble breathing in normal air let alone air with crap in it. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 08:34 AM
The Pope may only have power over Catholics (Catholics? Cath... Catheter! lics... Licks! CatheterLicks... Eeewwww... but I digress), but explain to me why here in North Texas (Jesusland yes, but of the Baptist flavor mostly) all the flags are flying half-staff. And I mean all of them. Except for my parents' flag (yeah, dad got pretty patriotic after 911) and maybe a few scattered others. I just don't get it. Do Baptists now revere the Pope? Did he mean that much to the auto dealerships and gas stations of North Texas?
I just don't see this as a national tragedy. |
Smerk
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 08:39 AM
Not just national - international! 1/4 of our free-to-air stations showed the whole funeral. Live. |
Charybdis
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 | 08:43 AM
Oh, and Rod...
OH YEAH!!!
To you weirdo AustraIlians, if ya'll jess larn crect talkin' we kin unnerstand ya butter. |
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