Bye Bye Bye .......... Delilah

[Markymark]

That's 'cos you're a fakenger Hoxton twat who's been conned by fairly middling marketing...








A reference to your earlier aspirations.

 

[Markymark]

The shop keeper is great. He only charges me £5 a loaf more for my special top/bottom loaves than the ordinary loaves everyone else buys.

 

[ufkacbln]

I think we're all in agreement regarding the ingredients. With the addition of just one more item you could call it a sandwich.

Which is exactly why I and so many others call it an OPEN sandwich?

 

[theclaud]

Which is exactly why I and so many others call it an OPEN sandwich?

My mother puts things on bread and refers to the result as 'open sandwiches'. It's an affectation - what it tells us is not that sandwichiness is an inherent property of the thing she is describing, but that telling it that way makes the stuff on the bread, and by implication her, appear more genteel. Think of it as analogous to the way that one person will refer to something that is clearly a sordid, ego-driven, controlling and misogynistic murder as a 'crime of passion' in order to dignify it as the tragedy of the teller.

 

[Markymark]

My mother puts things on bread and refers to the result as 'open sandwiches'. It's an affectation - what it tells us is not that sandwichiness is an inherent property of the thing she is describing, but that telling it that way makes the stuff on the bread, and by implication her, appear more genteel. Think of it as analogous to the way that one person will refer to something that is clearly a sordid, ego-driven, controlling and misogynistic murder as a 'crime of passion' in order to dignify it as the tragedy of the teller.

It's vegetarian chilli con carne all over again.

 

[theclaud]

It's vegetarian chilli con carne all over again.

I'm surprised no-one has started on Casseroles With Lids Masquerading As Pies.

 

[ufkacbln]

My mother puts things on bread and refers to the result as 'open sandwiches'. It's an affectation - what it tells us is not that sandwichiness is an inherent property of the thing she is describing, but that telling it that way makes the stuff on the bread, and by implication her, appear more genteel. Think of it as analogous to the way that one person will refer to something that is clearly a sordid, ego-driven, controlling and misogynistic murder as a 'crime of passion' in order to dignify it as the tragedy of the teller.

Now that has confused the Danes

They thought that denying open sandwiches was eccentric, but comparing a national dish to a murder has them totally perplexed

 

[ufkacbln]

My mother puts things on bread and refers to the result as 'open sandwiches'. It's an affectation - what it tells us is not that sandwichiness is an inherent property of the thing she is describing, but that telling it that way makes the stuff on the bread, and by implication her, appear more genteel. Think of it as analogous to the way that one person will refer to something that is clearly a sordid, ego-driven, controlling and misogynistic murder as a 'crime of passion' in order to dignify it as the tragedy of the teller.

The only way this could work is if your mother was a man!

Who did she / he murder?

 

[theclaud]

Now that has confused the Danes

They thought that denying open sandwiches was eccentric, but comparing a national dish to a murder has them totally perplexed

A nation whose national dish is The Open Sandwich is bound to be easily confused.

 

[Markymark]

The things that are not other things thread is >

This is not one of those threads?

 

[theclaud]

The only way this could work is if your mother was a man!

Who did she / he murder?

I'm afraid you've lost me!

 

[slowmotion]

A nation whose national dish is The Open Sandwich is bound to be easily confused.

Does pumpernickel still exist? I remember it as having the texture of almost-set tarmac when I went to Copenhagen aged ten.

 

[theclaud]

Does pumpernickel still exist? I remember it as having the texture of almost-set tarmac when I went to Copenhagen aged ten.

Yebbut I thought it was more German? It's pretty good cycling food, if a bit on the dull side on its own.

 

[slowmotion]

Yebbut I thought it was more German? It's pretty good cycling food, if a bit on the dull side on its own.

You're right. The Danish stuff is rugbrod. I think the reason they have open sandwiches is that two slices of this strange indigestible substance would be cruel and unnatural.

 

[theclaud]

You're right. The Danish stuff is rugbrod. I think the reason they have open sandwiches is that two slices of this strange indigestible substance would be cruel and unnatural.

Rug Bread? The case against them reclines...