veecee wrote:

...you've actually gotten your husband to the point where he complimented you on your PDoS.

Please enlighten me - what's a PDoS as opposed to a PSoS?

ancientsgate wrote:

Mattlocked wrote:

... when you go to town, searching for nothing but a scratchpad... and finally end up with this:

Why do they sell such things in Germany? They look like something foreign tourists in London would pick up as a memento of their trip. No? Love them, though-- do. A lot. Hooray for the red, white and blue, as we say here in the States.  heh

We don't have much interesting in our little town - BUT we have a small British Shop! 
I also found 'William & Kate' mugs there and the salesgirl told me that people here acutally buy them.

http://www.der-englische-laden.de/

Last edited by Mattlocked (September 19, 2012 8:35 am)

We have one to. Must be a German passion. 

Fudge is delicious, do you have it north of Boston as well? As for the pillow I'll go and have a look these days. A pillow would be nice. Or a skull. I know for sure they have these English breakfast sausages in the freezer. So maybe there'll be body parts as well. 

SusiGo wrote:

Fudge is delicious, do you have it north of Boston as well?

Yes. Yum.

I was just surprised to see a British shop in Germany with a name that includes the fudge word. Are the Brits famous for their fudge? Or is that just a name Germans would recognize as meaning "sweets" (what we call candy)? Like a candy shop? Just curious.

As for the pillow I'll go and have a look these days. A pillow would be nice. Or a skull. I know for sure they have these English breakfast sausages in the freezer. So maybe there'll be body parts as well. 

lol

tobeornot221b wrote:

I think only few Germans know what "fudge" is. We'd call fudge "Weichkaramellen" (soft caramels) - the hard type is called "Sahnebonbon" (cream candy). "Sweets" in general are "Suessigkeiten".

We just call fudge fudge, unless we want to say it's chewy fudge (the softer kind) or hard fudge (the kind you need your teeth to bite into). Americans don't use the sweets word, although we certainly would know what someone meant, if they called candy sweets.

Sometimes here we see or use the word confection for candy-- a confections shop, and the candy-maker could be a confectioner. But usually it's just a candy shop, and the people are candy-makers, and it'd be a place that sold everything from fudge, to bon bons and truffles, to candied fruit slices, candy corn, chocolate covered strawberries, you name it. Yum.

Sweet, to Americans, is more a word that means something has a lot of sugar in it-- sometimes it's a complaint, "That's too sweet!" Cookies, cake, donuts, brownies, cupcakes, candy are all sweet. But we don't call them sweets. Baked sweet foods are sold in a bakery, and the guys who make them are bakers. Which reminds me of Baker Street, and so see? We are on topic after all!

How does anyone learn to speak English?  heh

Candy is also a slang word though for certain illicit substances isn't it? Gives a whole different meaning to The Candy Man and the lyrics. This is on topic too for the 7% solution.

ancientsgate wrote:

tobeornot221b wrote:

I think only few Germans know what "fudge" is. We'd call fudge "Weichkaramellen" (soft caramels) - the hard type is called "Sahnebonbon" (cream candy). "Sweets" in general are "Suessigkeiten".

We just call fudge fudge, unless we want to say it's chewy fudge (the softer kind) or hard fudge (the kind you need your teeth to bite into). Americans don't use the sweets word, although we certainly would know what someone meant, if they called candy sweets.

Sometimes here we see or use the word confection for candy-- a confections shop, and the candy-maker could be a confectioner. But usually it's just a candy shop, and the people are candy-makers, and it'd be a place that sold everything from fudge, to bon bons and truffles, to candied fruit slices, candy corn, chocolate covered strawberries, you name it. Yum.

Sweet, to Americans, is more a word that means something has a lot of sugar in it-- sometimes it's a complaint, "That's too sweet!" Cookies, cake, donuts, brownies, cupcakes, candy are all sweet. But we don't call them sweets. Baked sweet foods are sold in a bakery, and the guys who make them are bakers. Which reminds me of Baker Street, and so see? We are on topic after all!

How does anyone learn to speak English?  heh

I think we do use "sweets" to refer to all those things at once, as in "I  like sweets," meaning "I like anything sweet." And someone who likes/eats a lot of sweets is said to have a "sweet tooth."

I've never heard of chewy fudge vs hard fudge. Just fudge. Northern Michigan is supposed to be famous for fudge. You see Mackinac Island fudge  all the time here. (I live in southern Michigan.) I used to work with a guy whose family had a well-known fudge business up North, so he literally grew up in a candy store.

As for being on topic, we could agree that Sherlock is eye candy, no?

Tobe, you always find an opportunity to post a nice photo, don't you? 

veecee wrote:

As for being on topic, we could agree that Sherlock is eye candy, no?

Mmmm.