Yorkshire Pudding: and other Brit Food

[or.phan_ann]

> Mrs. Lee Storm wrote:
> [Ann]:
> | P.S.: Do Americans break the wishbone in a chicken? 
> 
> [Lee]:
> Absolutely!  And it gets really fun when you break it with 
someone   > and the top goes flying off and you're both left with two 
shortish   > pieces.  So, you've got to measure to see who really has 
the longer  > one. 

Ann:
Really? I hadn't heard that one; to the best of my knowledge, both 
parties get a wish over here. (Thanks to everyone for answering, btw!)

> Carol:
> My family has British (mostly English, some Irish) roots
> but far back. I have a Mayflower ancestor and another who was hanged
> at the Salem witch trials on my father's side. I'm not sure when my
> mother's ancestors came over from Britain, but certainly no later  
> than the nineteenth century. American through and through, as I    
> realized when I went to England and found it to be a "foreign      
> country" (though, of course, I was the foreigner). :-)

Ann:
Well, the past is a different country, you see... we do things 
differently here (unless it's wishbones.)

Ann