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So true, so true!

Submitted by lakshmi_mama on Fri, 01/27/2006 - 6:25am.

We have been living in the UK for 6 months now. The language is quite different here. And it goes both ways - there are plenty of things I say normally that they look at me with blank stares.

The other day I got quite the odd response from a shop assistant in a bakery. I asked if they had jelly donuts. She looked at me like I had 3 heads, and said they had jam donunts. It was only later that I realized jelly is what they call jell-o here. As is gelatin. Which baked in a pastry would just be wrong.

Katie
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