Whats for dinner ?

[love being a mummy]

Blue swayers what are you having for dinner tonight.
I need some suggestions some good blue swaying food.

[Cinss]

Bangers and mash

[TTC5]

We are having home made fries, with peas and corn and steak cooked on the bbq.

[Plum3]

Well I'm being lazy tonight and having nachos!

[CapricornAquarius]

I had, crumbed chicken, mash potato & some vegies, very nice but simple.

[CapricornAquarius]

We are having home made fries, with peas and corn and steak cooked on the bbq.
Yummo!

[love being a mummy]

we had bbq last night.
too hot to cook we had pizza

[gizmo77]

Bangers and mash

whats bangers?

[gizmo77]

taco salads tonite (with crumbled taco shells)

[TTC5]

whats bangers?

LOL bangers are sausages ;)

[TTC5]

Last night we had take away from the local store they make the best, freshest homemade burgers with tomato, cheese, onion, sauce, egg, lettuce and a homemade meat burger/patty in a fresh bread roll. Also had chips with it.

Tonight I have chicken out so will do a butter chicken with mushroom and rice.

[gizmo77]

as in a penis bangs you ? is that why its called banger? bc it looks like something that can bang you?
;-)

[atomic sagebrush]

LOL gizmo!!!!!

[zanacal]

BANGERS AND MASH
A British staple, the ‘mash’ part of the name is easy to work out, but where do ‘bangers’ come from?
The sausage, one of the oldest types of processed food in history, can be traced back to ancient times. British pork sausages have been mass produced since the 19th century.

The Victorians, sceptical of what was actually in a sausage and suspecting the presence of rather a lot of horsemeat, nicknamed them ‘Little Bags of Mystery’.

After the outbreak of World War I, food shortages led to a dramatic reduction of meat, of any sort, in sausages.
Instead, producers packed them out with scraps, cereal and water, which caused them to pop and hiss when cooked on shovels over open fires in the trenches of northern Europe - hence, bangers.

[LolaInLove]

as in a penis bangs you ? is that why its called banger? bc it looks like something that can bang you?
;-)

:rofl:

[LolaInLove]

My children are convinced from some kid at school that hot dogs and sausages are made from the buttholes of the animals, and will not touch them with a ten-foot pole!

Last night, I made vegetarian burritos with wheat tortillas, black beans, brown rice, roasted veggies, guacamole, a little cheese, salsa, and sour cream.

[Hobbermittens]

Zanacal, Thanks for explaining the bangers and mash! I have always wondered about that. Gizmo's analysis was pretty funny too. :)

We eat a LOT of tacos (we add tomatoes into the meat) or spaghetti with meaty red sauce on this diet. Last night I made shephard's pie.

[rainbowflower]

lol Zana I didn't know that reason


we've actually got bangers and mash for tea today too! (with peas + sweetcorn, baked beans, and onion gravy)

[LolaInLove]

OK, I sound very uncultured, but someone explain this tea thing to me. (I am a stupid American, LOL.) I think I need to start doing this. It sounds awesome! Do you just drink tea or get to have a whole meal? Do you get to leave work? WANT TO DO IT.

[Lavenderlime]

Tea is just another word for dinner in England but to me tea time is earlier than say dinner so I might say i'm just making the kids some tea but i'd say i'm making dp's dinner. I think it's also regional in England if you use tea or dinner to describe your evening meal some people only use the word tea. If your really posh and from the south you say supper!

But tea, dinner and supper are all just evening meals.

[Lavenderlime]

Just to make things more confusing :) you can have an English tea,

which is cucumber sandwiches and small cakes drank with cups of tea.

Or a cream tea which is scones, jam and cream drank with tea.

I think the origin of the word tea was from the days when people would drink tea and eat dainty sanwiches and cakes at around 4pm and have a much later evening meal.

So one of these would be the exciting one that you want to try at the Ritz Hotel preferably :D

[gizmo77]

huh! very interesting, thanks for the explanation guys! interesting about "bangers." i also thought when ppl from "across the pond" said "tea" it meant a late afternoon snack, bc that s what ppl do in more laid back countries, they take an afternoon siesta (nap) or tea break (in india there are a LOT of tea breaks hahah!)

had no idea it meant dinner!
thanks for clarifying, i love this! (learning little tid bits of cultural information along the way)

[gizmo77]

Just to make things more confusing :) you can have an English tea,

which is cucumber sandwiches and small cakes drank with cups of tea.

Or a cream tea which is scones, jam and cream drank with tea.

I think the origin of the word tea was from the days when people would drink tea and eat dainty sanwiches and cakes at around 4pm and have a much later evening meal.

So one of these would be the exciting one that you want to try at the Ritz Hotel preferably :D

yes this is what i always imagined "tea" to be. mmm..small cakes. i could eat a whole one tho. (can you tell im american) ;-)

[zanacal]

I interchange tea and dinner - they both mean the same thing to me, but supper is an extra meal to eat during the evening!!

I'll think of this every time I eat a sausage (and I always say they're made from eye holes and arse holes too!).

[atomic sagebrush]

Tea is just another word for dinner in England but to me tea time is earlier than say dinner so I might say i'm just making the kids some tea but i'd say i'm making dp's dinner. I think it's also regional in England if you use tea or dinner to describe your evening meal some people only use the word tea. If your really posh and from the south you say supper!

But tea, dinner and supper are all just evening meals.

Wow thank you!