So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[2jakes]

Means classic, old coffee-whitener??

Here they call it coffee-mate !

 

[GHT]

The US is too versified to give a accurate description of preferences because each region or area has its own cultural tastes.

So true, I made the mistake of asking for biscuits instead of cookies on an early trip, I can't remember where, but it was probably Georgia. That got me into a conversation about the American biscuit. Remembering what was said I used it during a British/American difference conversation in Miami. Ha, I know nothing, nor do they know what they are talking about in GA.
For the record, we take the French word which they pronounce Bee-Squee, and Anglocised it. Literally it means twice cooked. Bi is the twice part, and cuit the past participle of cook, as in cuisine. When you think about it cookie is much the same. But the American biscuit is as baffling as grits.

 

[tonyb]

@LizzieMaine

"Condensed-milk" into your coffee, still typical east-german (my parents, too). Urgh!! Is this still known, in the US?

In the American Midwest of my early years, coffee drinkers who added anything other than sugar to their coffee typically used what is called "half-and-half," which is half cream and half whole milk. The stuff is still made, but I rarely see it anymore.

 

[2jakes]

Coffee & tea !
I prefer the aroma of coffee in the morning more than the taste.
I have tried several brands of coffee, & coffee pots, but the taste
is bitter even if I only put a small amount of coffee. If I drink half
a cup, it acts as a laxative. I wind up having to go to the toilet,
even if the “toilet paper” is not properly installed.

I have tried hot tea without milk or lemon but it makes me nausea
after one gulp.
As far as drinking tea with milk...I won’t. I’ll just sit & stare at it.
I can tolerate ice tea but only with lots of ice cubes & sugar.
The bad thing is I use too much sugar & that’s worse.
So I usually will drink a hot cup of chocolate in the winter & ice cold
bottle of Dr. Pepper or Coca-Cola with my lunch.

 

[sheeplady]

Really? And whose script do I follow? Please enlighten us as to the proper etiquette of replacing the toilet roll.

Heretic that I am, I don't like the taste of tea. However, I do know that tea without milk is not the British way of drinking the stuff. So if you should ever find yourself on our shores, you are now informed of, I'm tempted to say, the right way, but Sheeplady will be reading this and think that I'm mocking. Oh, and as you are now informed of the British way of tea drinking it's best that you know to ask for a loo roll should the tissue run out. But don't worry if you put it on the wrong way round, Sheeplady will be an ocean away.

Tissue goes over the roll in this household. And black tea is drunk with milk, no sugar. My grandfather drank tea with milk after being stationed in England during the war, I inherited that sensibility.

My grandmother put the tissue under the roll, which drove my mother nuts, hence I was raised in an 'over the roll' household. My mother once got ultra upset during a visit to my grandmother's and re-orientated the tissue in my grandmother's bathroom.

My grandmother decided to retaliate by switching the roll towards the wall whenever she visited us.

Which escalated into my mother switching the roll away from the wall on my grandmother. Every time we visited.

Yeah.


(People do realize I'm joking about the "right" way, right? But so not joking about my grandmother and mother... that happened. For years. The feud was only ended by my grandmother's death.)

 

[GHT]

My grandmother put the tissue under the roll, which drove my mother nuts, hence I was raised in an 'over the roll' household.

If there had been an upright dispenser, similar to the kitchen paper towel holder, I wonder if it would have been a "from the left pull or the right pull," argument.

 

[2jakes]

If there had been an upright dispenser, similar to the kitchen paper towel holder, I wonder if it would have been a "from the left pull or the right pull," argument.

In outer space, right pull...

 

[LizzieMaine]

I always have the TP under the roll -- it just seems to make more sense that way and is less inviting to the cat. But I wasn't raised that way. We didn't have a toilet paper holder on the wall at all -- there had been one, once, but the screws had long since pulled out of the plaster and nobody cared enough to fix it. So the roll just sat on the edge of the bathtub, on top of a stack of comic books and true-confession magazines. I can't remember if it wound off the roll to the left or to the right.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

But were the comics stacked on top of the true confession magazines or vice-versa?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Depends on who was the last person to use the can.

 

[MisterCairo]

Groan! Don't you start, you sound like someone I know, whose not too far away. Right way. wrong way, there's only two ways. The tissue either hangs down from the front or the back, what's the big deal? At least she drew the line at copying the habit of hotels, whereby they fold the tissue into a 'V' shape point.

You're correct, there are two ways to hang a toilet roll - the correct way and the wrong way!

It should hang on the outside closest to the user. It is more convenient, easier to spot the end if it has rolled upwards a bit (I frequently have to roll it backwards if it is rear-facing), and if the paper is patterned it is facing outwards.

I'm picky about these things...

 

[MisterCairo]

@LizzieMaine

"Condensed-milk" into your coffee, still typical east-german (my parents, too). Urgh!! Is this still known, in the US?

Carnation's Condensed milk is all my father ever put in his coffee (he was British but moved to Canada).

He picked up the preference during the war, as tinned milk, usually condensed, was what they were given in the field!

 

[MisterCairo]

In the American Midwest of my early years, coffee drinkers who added anything other than sugar to their coffee typically used what is called "half-and-half," which is half cream and half whole milk. The stuff is still made, but I rarely see it anymore.

Half and half is quite popular in Canada, we have two cartons in our fridge as I type!

 

[LizzieMaine]

...and if the paper is patterned it is facing outwards.

Patterned toilet paper? The very flag of the decadent bourgeoisie.

 

[GHT]

Patterned toilet paper? The very flag of the decadent bourgeoisie.

When I was a small child I thought that the queen was too posh to....... Mother didn't help when she told me, with a straight face, that the queen swallowed her toilet paper and it came out wrapped. I believed her.

 

[dh66]

Patterned toilet paper? The very flag of the decadent bourgeoisie.

Once did some work for a gent who had 14k gold plated faucets in his privvy. Had a gold plated handle to flush his throne with, too. Talk about flying that flag.



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[DNO]

Used the can in Dover Castle about 40 years ago. The toilet paper wasn't in a roll and was dispensed sheet by sheet. Every single sheet was stamped: "Property of H.M. Government"!

 

[sheeplady]

If there had been an upright dispenser, similar to the kitchen paper towel holder, I wonder if it would have been a "from the left pull or the right pull," argument.

It would have been.

Both my mother and grandmother tried to get me to help them in their war... no. But it was amusing to see them make any excuse to get in the bathroom... there were a few times the roll went back and forth several times in a single visit...

 

[2jakes]

My uncle read the newspaper while at the can & used certain sections to finish the task at hand.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It would have been.

Both my mother and grandmother tried to get me to help them in their war... no. But it was amusing to see them make any excuse to get in the bathroom... there were a few times the roll went back and forth several times in a single visit...

If there was ever a time to install one of those gas station multifold dispensers with the ultra-splintery paper...