No, Virginia, there is no Biscuit Monster

[Rilchiam]

@Bam_Boo_Gut

Woolly tights would clarify the difference. They’re both pairs of tights, stockings are the two piece jobs.

I see. Thank you.

Christmas cake and Christmas pud are not the same thing.

Uh, yeah…

[Ludovic]

Now I have a craving for a lovin’ spoonful of Christmas Cake.

[Hello_Again]

@Bam_Boo_Gut

Christmas cake and Christmas pud are not the same thing.

No one, anywhere has said they are. They have said that Christmas pudding is a form of cake which it is.

[jjimm]

I’m going to stick my oar in and say that Christmas pudding (pud for short; am aware of the obscene meaning of that word stateside - but it’s pronounced differently) is NOT a cake. If you told someone you were serving them some cake and then served up the sticky ambrosia that is steamed dried fruit and beef fat doused with alcohol with only about a 10% flour content, they’d report you to the Cake Police.

Anyway, here’s fun:

Our Mars Bar is your Milky Way
Our Milky Way is your Three Musketeers

[Count_Blucher]

@Hello_Again

I’ve made steamed puddings, and they are very much like cake

I’ll have steamed pudding the day I slice a holy-water sprinkled sword through its slimy hide.

…and you thought people never invite my to holiday dinners just because the guests tend to throw mashed potatoes…

[jjimm]

Also:

Your Mars Bar is our Topic

[WotNot]

@jjimm

Also:

Your Mars Bar is our Topic

No it isn’t. It’s more like the (rarely seen here) Snickers Almond.

[jjimm]

@WotNot

No it isn’t. It’s more like the (rarely seen here) Snickers Almond.

Oh yeah. Sorry, wrong nut - Topic is hazelnuts.

[Sorrel]

Also, persimmons are Sharon fruit in the UK.

[rekkah]

@Rilchiam

Okay, what we Yanks call pantyhose, Brits call tights. For us, tights are the legwear with the same construction as pantyhose, but thicker, heavier (although as thick as, say, long underwear or leggings), and usually with an eye-catching color or pattern. So what do the British call those? Or do both items get classified as “tights” the same way some Americans call pantyhose “stockings”? (Even though stockings are strictly the thigh-highs that usually require a garter belt, some people don’t know or care.)

What’ you’re describing sounds like what I would call leggings, except leggings don’t usually have built in feet - they finish at the ankle. There have been some very bizarre trends in the UK in the last couple of years for wet-look leggings and leggings that look like jeans (“jeggings”).

[Bam_Boo_Gut]

@jjimm

Also:

Your Mars Bar is our Topic

I don’t think they have Topic in the US. Snickers is a Marathon.

Didn’t know pud was anything other than a shortened pudding …

M&M = Smarties