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Nick Worley
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| Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 6:43 am
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<aminorflatfive@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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seguso wrote:
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So I concluded that "bean"
actually must mean "chicken" in London, and did not ask anything,
because this time I was almost sure of it.
Ah, you've fallen foul of the classic London vernacular trickery. It
used to be Cockney rhyming slang but then we all got wise to that. So
recently Londoners have been swapping various common words around; it's
important to be aware of this when visiting the city.
The ones I've heard are:
- 'bean' actually means 'chicken' (and vice versa)
- 'egg' has changed places with 'eel' (so be careful when ordering
breakfast)
- and, of course, for 'pheasant' read 'peasant'...
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LOL, this could also be renamed "non-rhyming slang".
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Django Cat
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:35 am
Post subject: Re: beanburger |
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seguso wrote:
| Quote: | Could please someone explain why, when in a London fastfood I ordered
a "beanburger", I was served chicken? This happened twice, so it
can't be a mistake  Thanks
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The person on the counter was from Slovakia. |
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Django Cat
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:46 am
Post subject: Re: beanburger |
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seguso wrote:
| Quote: | John Dean wrote:
seguso wrote:
Could please someone explain why, when in a London fastfood I
ordered a "beanburger", I was served chicken? This happened
twice, so it can't be a mistake Thanks
What would have been really kewl would have been if you had said
"Hey, Dood, this is chicken and I ordered a beanburger" and you had
recorded the reply so we could see whether the restaurant had made
a mistake or misunderstood you or were rebranding their products.
Well, I am not mother tongue, and I was not sure whether "bean" had
another meaning (e.g. baby chicken). I also wasn't 100% sure that
really was chicken, although all my friends believed so, and although
the meal did not have the small "v" in the menu (which means
"vegetarian", and which other items had). At the end I preferred to
stay silent. If I had asked "why is this chicken" and the reply had
been "bean means the baby chicken", I would have looked like an idiot.
That was in a pub,
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Ah, that explains it all. It was vegetarian chicken.
DC. Would she eat some wafer-thin ham?
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Tony Cooper
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:17 am
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:46:21 -0500, "Django Cat" <nospam@please>
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| Quote: | Ah, that explains it all. It was vegetarian chicken.
I thought all chickens were vegetarians. |
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James Silverton
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:51 am
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Tony wrote on Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:17:53 GMT:
??>> Ah, that explains it all. It was vegetarian chicken.
??>>
TC> I thought all chickens were vegetarians.
Ever heard of a free-range chicken? The improved taste is
supposed to come from eating worms and various bugs as well as
plants.
James Silverton. |
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Spehro Pefhany
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:57 am
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:17:53 GMT, the renowned Tony Cooper
<tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:46:21 -0500, "Django Cat" <nospam@please
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Ah, that explains it all. It was vegetarian chicken.
I thought all chickens were vegetarians.
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Why do you think they debeak battery hens?
Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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Mike Lyle
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:40 am
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Spehro Pefhany wrote:
| Quote: | On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:17:53 GMT, the renowned Tony Cooper
tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:46:21 -0500, "Django Cat" <nospam@please
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Ah, that explains it all. It was vegetarian chicken.
I thought all chickens were vegetarians.
Why do you think they debeak battery hens?
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You blokes never heard of feeding cows ground-up sheep's heads? And,
while we're at it, reflect on the ecologically disastrous assault on
the world's fish stocks to provide us with lousy-quality chicken.
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