[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Gravy, milk, and Britain oh my!

[Amanda Lewanski]

pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no wrote:

> White Russians?  Some sort of cake or dessert?  The term/name is
> almost as obscure as Stewed Swedes (very popular in Norway ;-) ), a
> side-dish (made of Swedih turnips).

A White Russian is a delectable alcoholic confection, the sort that
"real" drinkers don't touch, and that gives you the worst sort of
hangover. It's white because there's cream or milk in it.

I got outta the habit during my years of pregnancy, so I don't recall
what the base drink is--vodka seems likely, but I really don't remember.

Stewed Swedes are often found late at night at our medieval recreation
events, loudly boasting and trying to walk through fires (dangerous due
to the combustible nature of the vapors that hang about them...)

>  At least Mountain Dew tastes better than Dr. Pepper (which, the one
> time I tasted it, at Regent's Palace Hotel in London, reminded me of
> Coca Cola with an added table-spoon of baking-soda).

Nothing, you uncultured heathen, tastes better than Dr. Pepper. I'll
concede that after being transported halfway around the world to places
that eat things with names like spotted dick and digestive biscuits, it
might have lost a bit in the translation.

By the way, for you young and/or foreign folk, true mountain dew is
moonshine. Home brew. White lightnin'. The stuff that had a good chance
of making you go blind or crazy. Pepsi didn't invent the name, just
saccharined it.

--Amanda, who grew up singing "That Ol' Mountain Dew" (among other
obscure folk stuff) with her family group

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