>>I now have the image of less than entirely worldly United Republic
>>tourists falling prey to the local version of the American Cider
>>Misconception (sorry chaps, it is mostly you)
>
>We do have fermented apple cider here; it's just that we have a
>specific term for it ("hard cider"), to differentiate it from the kind
>that's just chunky apple juice. If anybody's mislabeled the product
>here, I'd have to say it's you folks, for not bothering to indicate an
>important thing like the alcohol content anywhere in the name. :)

That's... not strictly speaking the case. Up until the '20s, there was no distinction; hard cider was cider and soft cider (for want of a better term) was just another way of making apple juice. Then Prohibition happened and, well, yeah. We never did that on our cider the pond.

Haaaaaaaaaa.

>I'm just going to pause for a moment and consider how much better TLOK
>Book 2 would have been if Unalaq had been voiced by the guy who did
>Wheatley in Portal 2. That would have been epic. (It
>also might have been less painfully obvious from Second One that he
>was the villain of the piece. It's hard to find someone with that
>accent threatening. That's why they didn't let Dave Prowse voice
>Darth Vader. Bill Bailey used to do a great little routine about what
>that would have sounded like. :)

I will now lobby extensively for an appearance in UF of a West Country-accented ciderbender. Possibly called Unayaarp.

>>I have never seen a checkout girl look more horrified than when a
>>large woman from Tennessee dragged a brace of three-litre bottles of
>>White Lightning out of her trolley and said, in a reassuring manner,
>>that it was for her kids.
>
>Hah!
>
>Conversely, I once saw an English gent utterly flummox first the
>cashier, then himself, at a Kentucky Fried Chicken in greater Boston
>by ordering a half-dozen biscuits and specifying that they were for
>dessert.

Heehee. Our nation's not good for much any more, but we can do a damned fine flummoxed. Martin Freeman's made a very profitable career out of it.

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