Things you were shockingly old when you learned

And everybody else in the UK?

Yes, that's what I meant.

... sorry, Scotland.

Rolled oats are commonly used in England, oatmeal in Scotland and steel-cut oats in Ireland.[14]

Told you!

Wikipedia says rolled and steel-cut oats count as oatmeal.

Cat: 'Mieow?'
Me: Oh hello cat, how are you today?
Cat: 'Mieow.'
Me: That bad, huh? Have you had anything to eat today?
Cat: 'Gruel'
Me: Gruel? Where did you get the gruel from, cat?
Cat: 'Grey Owl'
Me: Grey owl gave you the gruel?

etc....

This oatmeal thing is complicated. Also, the French think of porridge as typically English when the English think of it as typically Scottish - or used to.

Chinese whispers. Or, as the French call it, le téléphone arabe.

Ha, that's "broken telephone" where I come from.

Americans just call it 'telephone', due to their notoriously politically correct public discourse no doubt.

Montreal accent

Btw Sund4r this is what I had in mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yYPD6JJtDM

Works for both languages, incidentally.

Fwiw my friends from Southern Ontario sound simultaneously more American and more Canadian to me.

Americans call Chinese burns Indian burns

From the internet:
"Porage: this is a word made up by A & R Scott in Glasgow when they launched Scott's Porage Oats in 1914, and combined the old Scots word poray with the French word potage."

Also from the internet:
Dictionary of the Scots Language

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I call cream of wheat porridge and oatmeal, oatmeal. I used to really like eating instant oatmeal uncooked.

also sounds like 'pourage', like... something you'd pour I guess?

this version of the porage origin story makes a bit more sense: https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/producers/things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-scotts-porage-oats/

(though not much more)

Americans call Chinese burns Indian burns

― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, November 25, 2019 9:29 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So long as we're all resolved to refer to this particular kind of burn in quasi-racist terms.

Her vowels (I think in both languages) sound a lot broader to me than those here, which is also the first thing that strikes me when I drive across the US border:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igydws4gSA

xp to pomenitul

(I mean the adults in this video)

Yeah, I can hear it. Speaking for myself, I sound a lot like Anne-Marie Withenshaw in English and while my 'abouts' may not be as echt-Canadian as those of anglophone non-Montrealers, they still sound ridiculously Canadian to everyone I meet (especially the Americans, as Brits have a very hard time telling our accent(s) apart from those of our neighbours).

porridge is stirabout

stirabout is fair whey

Flap Jacks are the badness what occur when are missing some key ingredients of Parkin but are all dressed up to bake this nastiness anyway.

flapjacks are what happens if the contents of a horse's nosebag get soggy and clump together

my "abouts" were lightly canadian for a week or so after my montreal trip this year

Americans call Chinese burns Indian burns

― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Monday, November 25, 2019 9:29 AM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So long as we're all resolved to refer to this particular kind of burn in quasi-racist terms.

― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Monday, November 25, 2019 3:46 PM (fifty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

unforch, I don't remember schoolkids in the 80s and 90s taking this into consideration

No, they sure didn't.

every once in a while someone references a wildly racist/sexist/homophobic thing from my childhood and I think, wow, we really did say that, huh?

my "abouts" were lightly canadian for a week or so after my montreal trip this year

There's sort of a continuum with how that diphthong gets raised in RoC ime, less "oo" and more "oh" as you go from east to west in broad terms, I think. (People in the Prairies would comment on mine.) Montreal's seem possibly the least raised to me, though.

xpost Not only that, but I occasionally think about how carefree childhood refrains of 'joy to the world, the teacher's dead' or 'on top of the schoolhouse all covered with blood' would probably get a kid expelled nowadays.

it wasn't really a "shockingly old" thing in that I don't think it'd be a thing people would learn unless they knew someone from Saskatchewan, but in that province people refer to a hooded sweatshirt as a "bunny hug"

Ha, yeah. Idk if the Mackenzie brothers used that particular one but a lot of things from the Great White North sketches never made sense to me until I lived in Regina.

I will be a little sad if kids are no longer singing "glory, glory, how peculiar! The teacher hit me with a ruler..." anymore.

what do brits call waffles

waffles

they're waffly versatile

brits call waffles "Labour Party" iirc

They're still called waffles but they differ constitutionally as they're comprised mostly of a pig's blood and bone meal batter poured onto a waffle iron. IIRC? Could be wrong. But it sounds right.

Weirdly, the hard-left faction of our left-wing party used to be called "The Waffle" so I wondered if that was serious for a split-second.xp

correct so far as it goes, except that british waffles are buttered on the left side, not the right side as in the US.

wait waffles are buttered on sides? I just drench the motherfucker

does the usa have potato waffles or are they a uk thing? because this was the only waffle I knew until adulthood.

are those like waffle fries? if so, yea

ok, searched for waffle fries, the answer is "yes, but like four times the size of those"

like this

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9PMr05j-B4k/hqdefault.jpg

what do brits call waffles

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Monday, November 25, 2019 5:23 PM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is taht what a Belgian waffle is.
I think the Birdseye variety tend to be more savoury, some of them are potato based rather than batter and what have you.
BUt the big thing about a waffle is that it is made with a waffle iron so will have the criss cross design on it.
& it might also refer to a style of trouser that had a similar look, but not seen those in a few decades.

That there's a brand of Dijon mustard called Grey Poupon that Americans consider to be quintessentially French but that is virtually unknown in France.

Ha, I just learned that Grey Poupon actually did originate in France. I had always assumed it was American.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgPk5T1xi0

I still find myself on one or the other side of this scenario like a few times a week at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6WADh8vk3A

cream of wheat isn't porridge
I'm still not sure where "grits" fits in