OT And we call all of this English?

[Nick.Hay]

Devon was always called 'german sausage' in my family home here in Tasmania... Not very accurate, considering its not made FROM Germans, nor is it from Germany!!

I used to wonder what people were on about calling it "Belgium"...


Now "port" for a suitcase... Thats just stupid!!!

Bogan, on the other hand... We ALL know what we mean then, so we can all laugh at them!!!

[Zeuk in Oz]

devon a popular processed sausage? not lately, at least not in the CBD in a deli i worked at when i was at uni, people were more likely to get mortadella than that crap.

don't forget queenslanders putting "ay?" on the ends of sentences. and you new south welshman calling a schooner a "middie" (glasses of beer for those who don't know)
there are also interesting things like my parents sometimes called lunch: dinner and dinner: tea as they do in parts of england.

Didn't say I ever ate or liked devon - lol. For ages I always thought there was something wrong with me when I had danish salami or latvian liverwurst and gerkhin on my school lunches when everyone else had devon and tomato sauce. If ypou've seen the film "Wogboy", you will know what I mean !

A "middie" is smaller than a "schooner" but larger than a "seven".

I find that many country people have breakfast, dinner and tea while city people often have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Perhaps the origin of this is that many country people have their largest meal in the middle of the day.

[rob101]

Didn't say I ever ate or liked devon - lol. For ages I always thought there was something wrong with me when I had danish salami or latvian liverwurst and gerkhin on my school lunches when everyone else had devon and tomato sauce.

A "middie" is smaller than a "schooner" but larger than a "seven".

I find that many country people have breakfast, dinner and tea while city people often have breakfast, lunch and dinner. Perhaps the origin of this is that many country peolple have their largest meal in the middle of the day.

i don't really remember exactly because the last time i had a "middie" was after having 4hrs sleep and i think i had about 6 in one hour this was in a road trip from melbourne to sydney.... thats a really good way of getting out of driving.
wtf is a seven. isn't that a kind of lotus
yeah i think i missed the devon and tomato sauce of the 1970s lol.

edit: pot=middie
http://www.aussiepubs.com.au/talk/index.htm

[Nick.Hay]

Middie is a 10oz... We called them a 10oz at the club I worked in.




The smaller one is a 10oz... the other 2 are pints; 20oz.

[Zeuk in Oz]

yeah i think i missed the devon and tomato sauce of the 1970s lol.

Actually, in my case it was the sixties !

[rob101]

mate i love this forum always makes me feel young