+1. :eek: :D

Treacle?

There is a BBQ rivalry in my family. In Georgia it can only be made with pulled pork. In Texas BBQ is a transitive verb and you can BBQ anything, e.g. armadillo. In North Carolina it is pork as in Georgia, but it is served on a sandwich with cole slaw which is called slaw there.

Upper Michigan is a great place to get meat pies -- pasties -- in the U.S. The tradition was brought over with miners who moved there from Cornwall (England) to work in the copper mines. My wife's grandmother, whose husband worked in those mines in the early 1900s, used to make them for us all the time from a recipe that unfortunately died with her. :(

But, IMHO, blueberry pie can be narrowly beaten by a good rhubarb pie -- if you can find one!

Doug,

A good Rhubarb Pie is a very close substitute for a fresh Gooseberry Pie. Either, when done right, should be tart and fresh with the necessary sweetness provided by fresh handcranked homemade vanilla ice cream. These pies are rarely found outside the hinderlands.

Tyson

Mmmmmmmmmm..... rhubarb pie.... :) :) :)

And don't even get people started on what goes into good Brunswick Stew. I know, but if I tell you I'll have to kill you. ;)

Puffing a *** has a whole different conontation in the states also.

Having grown up in Georgia, I concur on the "pig" for barbeque. There was a little place near the Atlanta airport called "The Flying Pig". We ate there all the time. It also reminds me of my high school classmate, Jeff Foxworthy. In one of his comedy routines about the Atlanta Olympics, he tells of the guy who climbed all the way to the top of the stadium to get close to the Olympic flame. The guy figured with a fire that large someone had to be bbqing a pig!

No, thanks, to the rhubarb pie. I grew up on a rhubarb farm, and can't stand it.
+1 to the huckleberry comments. They are, indeed, ripe just now, and we recently returned from Olallie Lake (Olallie is local native American for huckleberry) and they were wild all over the place.
Many of the differences between spellings in US and UK can be attributed to Noah Webster, who stumped for and won many changes (colour to color, favour to favor, etc.), but was unsuccessful in his attempt at a radical transformation of spelling to eliminate letters that are not pronounced, hoping to achieve a more nearly phonetic spelling: thru for through, brot for brought, eliminating final silent e's, etc. Would have helped a lot of CEO-types if he had succeeded.

:roflmao: :beer:

North Carolina is probably too far north to find good bar-b-que.:p Any sandwich with cole slaw on it is a Reuben.;)

Tyson
Cushing, Oklahoma

It is even different where you live in the States. There is the controversy over the word Soda and Pop. Growing up in the Midwest it was Pop, my son grew up in CA and it was Soda and if you are from Georgia its always Coke. Then there is tea, in the States usually it is consumed iced although in the south it will be sweet and its almost never combined with milk whether hot or cold.

If you ever visit the southern US, for your own safety do not use the words "Yanks" when referring to Americans. You might just get some good ole boy in your face.