"Western" food

[Mikkel]

Does it translate out to 'hammerer' or something like that?

No, a direct translation would be something like lumbermen, but I think the hammering have something to do with it .

[gerund]

popular British term for a cigarette. What they say to describe a smoke break would, in the U.S., be tantamount to admitting a hate crime.

When I was a little boy and my Mother was driving me and my sister somewhere she would divert us (so we didn't fight) by singing songs. One popular one was this.

Get a load of the lyrics in the first verse - just what you were saying.

[PepperElf]

all i can think of is a generic chain restaurant like sonic, denny's, ruby tuesdays, etc.

cos part of it may also be because of the way countries are arranged. there's more smaller-sized countries in europe so there's more of a chance of a specific food for a specific country.

when you get to the US it's actually not that different - each region has a different style of food. but if people are use to thinking of "one food style per country" they may not realize that American food really isn't just one type.

[BeeMused]

IIRC, in German, the term for "hangover" is "Katzenkrank" or just "Katz". I believe it translates more or less to "sick cats". Having been owned by cats for several years, this euphimism makes perfect sense to me

More like "Katzenjammer" (cat misery) or "Kater" (tom cat), both come from "Katarrh" = old fashioned word for any illness or pain in or near the head. The most common word for hangover is "Kater".
More fun facts about alcohol: a colloquial german form for "drunken" is "blau sein" (to be blue), interestingly the French use black (noir) to describe the same state of intoxication.

And now back to the thread topic...

[Jester]

Or US 'Southerners'.

Them: "We're from South of the Mason-Dixon line".
Me: "Where I'm from, it only counts if you're south of the Equator."

One my friend says (and I've picked up) here in Key West, when speaking of the South: "You know where the South is? North of here?"

[Seshat]

Yup.

And way, way, WAAAAYYYYY north of here!

[Jay 2K Winger]

Yeah, specifics are necessary, when talking about "western" food.

Yup.

And way, way, WAAAAYYYYY north of here!

Really? You don't use this map, then?

[Ironclad Alibi]

Or US 'Southerners'.

Them: "We're from South of the Mason-Dixon line".
Me: "Where I'm from, it only counts if you're south of the Equator."

One my friend says (and I've picked up) here in Key West, when speaking of the South: "You know where the South is? North of here?"

According to one US southern comedian*, the North does not exist. We're all south of Canada.

* Brother Dave Gardner

[Seshat]

Really? You don't use this map, then?

Oh, we do. It'a juat that we talk about 'down North'. "South" is up, you see.

[Chromatix]

Everywhere I've heard of, the "West" means Europe (from Greenland to Finland via Spain and Greece) and North America. This is contrasted directly with the Middle East (from Turkey to Pakistan by way of Yemen) and the Far East (from Nepal to Japan via Indonesia and the various incarnations of China). Africa, Australia, India and South America don't really figure in this comparison.

The confusing part is that the most convenient route from the Far East to the West is to travel eastbound, and vice versa. This basically reflects the fact that the terms are extremely old, dating from before the Americas were discovered.

None of which excuses these SCs. They've just come from Europe (which is Western) into North America (which is also Western).

[Jester]

According to one US southern comedian*, the North does not exist. We're all south of Canada.

Speaking of Southerners, I got into an argument in a bar once with a Southerner, who insisted that, since I was not from the South, I was a Yankee.

I'm from the West. I am neither a Southerner nor a Yankee. Just about everyone with half a brain accepts this. Not this guy. He INSISTED that anyone not from The South was by definition a Yankee.

This despite the fact that I pointed out that where I was from was actually further South than where he was from. Despite the fact that the West was virtually uninvolved in the Civil War, which kinda defined the difference between North and South. It got so heated, with this guy being such a flaming ASSHOLE about it, that we had to be separated. Even his friends were telling him to shut up because he was wrong, but he just wouldn't stop.

This guy would have been completely offended to find out that, despite being from The South, millions of foreigners the world over would consider HIM a "Yankee." I mentioned this to him, of course, and he about flipped about...despite this being the truth, as his friends knew, and he just refused to believe or accept.

Most Southerners are fine people. Some are a bit annoying. Guys like THIS one, though, give The South a really, REALLY bad name.

[Moosenogger]

I would have assumed they meant barbeque. :/

[Merriweather]

True. And that is another point I use to poke fun at Texans. Because, as you said, a lot of Westerns were SET in Texas. Not FILMED in Texas. SET there. The amusing thing is, the vast majority of old Westerns that were SET in Texas were actually FILMED in Old Tucson Studios.

My dad worked there for a while as a security guard. I don't think my sister and I ever quite forgave him for refusing to take us with him to work at a time when they were filming a TV series that included a couple of actors that we would have done anything to meet (we were both teenagers at the time). He used to tell us stuff about the filming. For instance, there is one episode of that series that if you watch closely, the main character is walking rather oddly. Seems he'd fallen off his horse & landed on his gun (alas, no outtakes back then).

[wolfie]

My dad worked there for a while as a security guard. I don't think my sister and I ever quite forgave him for refusing to take us with him to work at a time when they were filming a TV series that included a couple of actors that we would have done anything to meet (we were both teenagers at the time).

Considering some of your posts have hinted at you being among the older members here, would that have been the "map burns at the start" series which had one lead actor go on to become Commander Adama (in the "Starbuck takes a leak standing up" version of Battlestar Galactica), and another who was on Little House on the Prairie, and then became the angel on Highway to Heaven?

[Canarr]

Well, if they were from Germany, then the phrase "western food" would most probably point towards a steakhouse-type place. Something that serves lots of red meat, potato wedges, baked potatoes, stuff like that.

Though I hope they weren't from Germany, as they seem like douchebags :P