Vile sandwiches

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> Barb admitted:
> 
> << ...I briefly was into making peanut butter, pickle, olive and 
baloney sandwiches.  The peanut butter mainly functioned as mortar.  
>>
> 
> Why anyone would want to work peanut butter around their mouth and 
pass it through their digestive system, I have no idea.  However, 
thanks for the DIY tip: one jar of the stuff will probably spread far 
enough to tile my bathroom walls from floor to ceiling.  <g>
> 
> Neil

Funny, I've often found when reading UK shelter magazines (as a 
student of architecture I think I subscribe to about two dozen of 
them--from the US and UK) that there are many things which go by 
different names.  "Valance," for instance means a piece of fabric 
hung at the top of a window which is not long enough to obscure the 
entire aperture (in the US), whereas in the UK this is used to refer 
to the fabric hanging down between a bed's mattress and the floor (in 
US it's a dust ruffle or bed skirt).  So I don't know 
whether "mortar" is used in the UK to refer to both the material that 
binds masonry together AND glues tiles to a wall, but it could be.  
In the US, the tile stuff is called mastic and the stuff we actually 
see between the tiles is grout.  I think that as foods go, cream 
cheese (does THAT exist in the UK?) would make better mastic than 
peanut butter and mayonnaise would do well as grout. <vbg>  Can you 
tell I'm feeling silly and giddy because I finished my fic?

--Barb