The Great British Food & Language

So the other day we were in this one pub/ restaurant and having dinner.

Dinner...hmmmm night time food perhaps??? Will discuss about this later.... hiks...

BUT I happened to stumble across the menu on the table and so shocked to see what they called PUDDING.

For us, pudding is like dessert, cakes, ice cream or anything sweet after any main meals, right?

BUT not this one.. it's SAVOURY PUDDING according to Avang. Quite extraordinary for me... after having lived in this country for nearly 15 years, this was the first time I saw such thing!

Mrasa uols makan puding biri biri, voley???? Ingat nak makan puding jagung..tetiba jadik puding mushroom... geli mak!

Even two weeks ago, when I was with my work colleagues having office lunch at the pub/ restaurant I was shocked to realise that my pronunciation of SALMON was wrong.

I said SALMON as you spell it BUT my colleagues corrected me by saying NO, it's not pronounced SALMON, it's pronounced SAMON (with the silent L).

Quite bizarre!

I am not sure though; it's probably the slang not the Queen's English!

Like those important names like Leicester - it's pronounced with the silent ICE - thus, just "Lester". Or Edinburgh with the silent "gh" but with sort of an "a" at the back thus "EDINBARA".

I remember one Malaysian TV drama potraying this guy who had just came back from Edinburgh after finishing his degree and he was talking to his girlfriend (macam biasalah drama swasta - boipren gelpren...boipren boipren ad-dinch pulak noh??? **opss matilaa Sutun!) about Edinburgh. The director or the writer of the script failed to tell him to pronounce EDINBURGH as "EDINBARA" so instead he called Edinburgh as we spelt it bulat bulat! :P

Oh yeah, let's go back to DINNER. Some of you might think DINNER is night meal.. WRONG!

If you were invited for Sunday Roast Dinner..PLEASE, please do not arrive at 7.00pm or 8.00pm at night cuz you will be missing out big time!

Dinner in English language is lunch and as for "night time meal" itself, we called it TEA time.

Thus they'll always ask you "What would you like for tea tonight?" or "Shall we have eggs and chips for tea?"

Don't think tea is having tea and cakes cuz it's not! That'll probably be high-tea; with scones and cakes and everything **yummmy!

AND what about some of the stuff people are eating here. They might think we Asians eat funny foods like chicken bones (ohh i do love munching on crunchy chicken bones!!!!) or chicken feet BUT they eat pork scratchings i.e simply deep fried pig skins!!!!!!!!!