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  • lecter
    Super MURCer
    • May 2002
    • 1467

    #1

    How well do you know food customs?



    Check it out...got 8/11
    All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
  • Brian Ellis
    Super MURCer
    • Sep 1999
    • 9623

    #2
    I'm ashamed of myself: I got Scotland wrong!!!!!!! Actually, the question is not quite right because dinner in Scotland is the main meal of the day, no matter the time it is consumed, but it is true that many do make the midday meal the main one, called dinner, while many others have their dinner in the evening and yet others have their dinner as a high tea at 4.30.

    Otherwise, I'm fit to travel with 9/11!
    Brian (the devil incarnate)

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    • SitFlyer
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 2002
      • 7178

      #3
      Was that supposed to be a hard quiz?
      Perhaps it's my lucky day.
      Somehow I got them all RIGHT. 11/11

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      • Umfriend
        Crabby Smurf
        • Mar 2001
        • 7308

        #4
        Uhm, they said 8 out of 11, but my own count was at 10/12? (sure)
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        • lecter
          Super MURCer
          • May 2002
          • 1467

          #5
          There are only 11 questions, how could you get 10/12??
          All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

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          • Umfriend
            Crabby Smurf
            • Mar 2001
            • 7308

            #6
            Donnow, must've been their bad.
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            • dZeus
              Moderator
              • Aug 2000
              • 4622

              #7
              10/11

              easy.. only got the poland one wrong

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              • cjolley
                Super MURCer
                • Aug 1999
                • 7672

                #8
                7/11
                Oddly, I only missed questions on places I had been to.

                And I dissagree with thier answer for England.
                I worked in a summer camp in England in the 60's and the first time the American kids were served fried chicken an audible gasp went up from the English staff when the kids lit into it with thier hands.
                Maybe things have changed in the last 35 years
                Chuck
                秋音的爸爸

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                • dbdg
                  Super MURCer
                  • Sep 1999
                  • 1030

                  #9
                  4/11

                  My oh my, how bad am I?

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                  • KvHagedorn
                    Super MURCer
                    • Aug 1999
                    • 10725

                    #10
                    Originally posted by cjolley
                    7/11
                    Oddly, I only missed questions on places I had been to.

                    And I dissagree with thier answer for England.
                    I worked in a summer camp in England in the 60's and the first time the American kids were served fried chicken an audible gasp went up from the English staff when the kids lit into it with thier hands.
                    Maybe things have changed in the last 35 years
                    don't you mean GAWSP?

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                    • Nowhere
                      Super MURCer
                      • Jun 2002
                      • 4830

                      #11
                      4/11

                      oh well, I did have the need to know only about Germany...
                      And...funny I didn't know the one about Poland

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                      • UtwigMU
                        Super MURCer
                        • Jul 2002
                        • 5651

                        #12
                        Well there is old wives tale about lighting cigarettes with candles = lost soul of sailor, so I guessed guessed the Poland question.

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                        • Rob(QG)
                          MURCer
                          • Apr 2002
                          • 268

                          #13
                          I disagree with the English one, too.

                          Out of the answers they had, A was the most correct. Eating with hands is fine, unless you're a stuck up twat, or there is gravy involved.

                          As for how chicken should be served - roasted, and served with roast potatoes, sage and onion stuffing and yorkshire puddings

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                          • Brian Ellis
                            Super MURCer
                            • Sep 1999
                            • 9623

                            #14
                            I thought Yorkshire pud is served as a starter with gravy, to cut the appetite, so that you would eat less of the more expensive beef. Of course, it is well known that Yorkshiremen are closer to their money than Scotsmen! At least, the latter can reach their money easier in their sporran than a Yorkshire bloke who has his pockets at the bottom of their trouser legs
                            Brian (the devil incarnate)

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                            • az
                              Moderator
                              • Feb 2001
                              • 9336

                              #15
                              Originally posted by UtwigMU
                              Well there is old wives tale about lighting cigarettes with candles = lost soul of sailor, so I guessed guessed the Poland question.
                              Hey, we have that here, too, though I still mis-guessed

                              AZ
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