So you THOUGHT you knew the best way to peel a potatoe?

[Stan]

[Gerr]

Potatoe? Quayle?

[Stan]

IN pretty much every English country except, one and the countries it dominates it is spelled that way.

[Gerr]

You taught me something. Thank you.

[Outta Here]

Per Oxford,singular: potato; plural: potatoes.

[Outta Here]

Just for fun, You write potato, I write ghoughpteighbteau

[Stan]

Reminds me of ghoti, or something similar to that can be prounced Fish..

When I type Potato in several programs with the British Canada dictionary it comes up with an error. Going to the Oxford American English dictionary. is well.... hmmm

Reminds me of something I learned a couple of years ago

1,000,000,000,000 is a Trillion in North America but it is a Billion in England and Europe, which has a significant difference if you say there are Billionaires..

What we call a Billion they call a Hundred Thousand Million... a phrase we do not use

Here is something from yahoo answers on this

[Stan]

I took the wrong screen shot.. sorry

[Gail]

Dawn Wells! It's MaryAnne from Gilligan's Island!

[phkrause]

That's awesome

pk

[Outta Here]

Quote:

What we call a Billion they call a Hundred Thousand Million... a phrase we do not use

Now there's something I never knew! Cool. Stan, can you point me to a good British dictionary online? All I can find are the ones where the phrases are slang and not always appropriate. I'd really like to have a link to a good site (for personal uses).

The whole potato peeling thing would never have worked on Gilligan's Island. They didn't have an ice-chest!

[phkrause]

Yeah it took me a few minutes to figure out who she was. hahaha

pk

[phkrause]

Yeah I did dgrimm, I sat down. hahahahaha

pk

[carolaa]

Yeah it took me a few minutes to figure out who she was. hahaha

pk

LOL. She said it right in the beginning.

[phkrause]

I know but I had to look at her for awhile before I could actually say to myself, yeah that's her. But it did take me awhile to figure it out. lol

pk

[carolaa]

If you want the potatoes cooked anyway, then that's a great way to do it. I'm embarrassed to say that I never thought of putting them in ice before I peeled them. It would go a lot faster that way than the way I do it - let them sit for 20-30 minutes. Or just go ouch, ouch, ouch! LOL

But if you don't need them cooked, I think she could have had them peeled faster with a peeler.

[carolaa]

On the other hand, if you hate peeling potatoes as much as I do, the extra time it takes is probably well worth it. And, I s'pose most of the time when we eat potatoes, we want them cooked. So - wow - a great tip! I may actually eat more potatoes now.

[GreatLakesGramma]

I eat the peels. Even when I make mashed potatoes, I mash the peels right in.

[Gerr]

That's English for you. Very confusing for someone brought up in another language. Grammar rules have so many exceptions.

And their wts and measure and monetary units! Ay yay yay!!!

[carolaa]

I eat the peels. Even when I make mashed potatoes, I mash the peels right in.

Yeah, that's probably the best idea.

[Gerr]

Too much nutritional value is thrown away with the peel.

[GreatLakesGramma]

The peels themselves are indigestible. But I've read that the most nutritious part is just under the peel. When you peel before cooking, you remove that part, but when you cook and then peel, you keep it. But just eating the peels is easier.

[Cosmin M.]

I knew this for a long time. But I never put it in water. I just took it out with my tongs and peeled the skin off. No, I did not get burned.

[Gerr]

Used your tongs? Hmmmmmmmm. I wonder what your tongs look like!

[carolaa]

Tongs are a common kitchen utensil.