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@CaptainQuahog I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I really know how you feel - we lost our 17 year old cat and last remaining pet yesterday. The house feels so empty.

@Robyn I always put mustard on a beef poboy, but then I'm a Brit. Beef needs mustard and/ or horseradish.

@Douglas in Britain, mint sauce is totally tradititional. It would be unusual to have roast lamb without it.

@Francis. Still is - hope springs eternal!

@Esmerelda and the Germans have Eiswein -expensive when available and very sweet.

@Mean Old Lady in my home town the south of England, plaice and cod were equally traditional, with haddock becoming a popular alternative more recently. My mother always had plaice, but the rest of us always had cod.

@Jane Wheelaghan what is called corn starch here in the US. is what we Brits call corn flour. When I first tried to buy corn flour here I ended up with a box of yellow grits. Someone then gently explained to me that corn starch was what I needed.

@Andrzej in British English, ta is also a slang word for thank you- I have no idea where it came from though.

@Nora if you're a Brit like me, traipsing means to walk wearily. Two countries divided by a common language!

@Michael I'm a Brit, and have always seen it spelt drily. Maybe just another British/American spelling difference? Dryly looks odd to me.

@Bret well, as a Saints fan, Brady was not the first name that came to mind!

@Mean Old Lady halibut is also good. But my mother would always choose plaice.

@Helen Wright I can sympathize with you - not because of cats, who I love, but because of wasps. I once knocked over a table, a chair and 2 glasses in an outdoor café in Pisa opposite the tower, because a wasp buzzed round me.

@RozzieGrandma there are no tea trolleys on the London underground, aka the Tube, but they are brought round on many regular trains, although not normally on commuter trains in and out of London ( at least not back in the day when I was using them). The thought of some poor soul trying to push a trolley through a crowded Tube train is pretty scary!

@Mean Old Lady also heartsick, but at least not too lonely, living in a blue spot surrounded by deepest red. Although many people who work here live in a red area, so we still have to be careful about what we say sometimes.

And LSU, especially after Nick Saban left them to coach Alabama.

@Mean Old Lady maybe you could drive to NOLA, where we will soon be getting a second TJ's!

@Steve L these days, almost any hotel brand apart from Hilton is owned by Marriott.

@Sandip in British English, traipsing means to walk wearily. I had no idea until today that it meant the opposite in American English.

@Jonathan Baldwin neither have I ‐ also a Brit, although I live in the US for now. I had "mate" for a while. "chap" is just a word for man.

@Helen Wright I'm just really allergic to them so getting stung isn't really an option! I know you're supposed to ignore them, but I'm too scared of them to try to do that.

@Grant I'm so glad I am not alone in disliking musicals. My one pass is Cabaret, partly because it's so good, but mainly because the songs are sung in a night club, where songs belong, and not on top of a mountain or a street or anywhere else where people would be considered crazy if they suddenly burst into song.

@B even though I'm a Brit and not much of a sports fan, i live in New Orleans, and Drew Brees is an icon. He took the Saints to their first and only Super Bowl, which they won. In the many years he was the QB, the Saints were basically a good team - since he left, they've gone rapidly downhill.

@Mean Old Lady as a Brit, even though I've lived in the US for over 30 years, it took me a while to work out the SQUIRREL clue

@Jane Wheelaghan. I knew RIG VEDA, because decades ago I was in our school choir and we sang an English translation set to music by Holst. But I'd never heard of GOREY, so maybe his work never made it to Britain?