"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> Tiger Lily wrote:
>> On 3/17/2011 4:15 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 18/03/2011 7:14 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>>> Ozgirl wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is very little sugar in cinnamon sugar compared to
>>>>>> cinnamon.
>>>>>> And I don't put much on. Lucky if 1/8 teaspoon is sugar. But we
>>>>>> didn't invent this. It became popular here after the introduction
>>>>>> of American style steakhouses.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's weird because our steakhouses don't serve sweet potatoes at
>>>>> all. They serve French fries, steak fries and baked potatoes.
>>>>>
>>>>> We also have Outback Steakhouse, purportedly an Austrailian style
>>>>> place with
>>>>> Bloomin' Onions. This is an onion cut to look like a flower,
>>>>> battered and
>>>>> deep fried. Quite nasty and greasy it is.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have heard about that place I don't think there is too many
>>>> Aussies involved with it, I haven't heard an Aussie say "blooming"
>>>> since umm ummm *ever* :-) Now if they were Bloody onions, that
>>>> would show an Aussie involved in it somewhere.
>>>
>>> Ewww.
>>>
>>>
>> Julie, read 'damned' instead of Bloody, you will get a better
>> interpretation
>> i await further clarification from "countries divided by a common
>> language"
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> I don't know. I worked with a woman from England. Her husband was
> from Australian. One of them gave me a different definition of the
> word. Not one I could say with little children around.

Its a very benign word. On a scale of 1 to 10, the F bomb being 10 it is
a 1.
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