On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 08:04:35 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 22:50:49 -0700, sf > wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:03:39 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 05/08/2013 7:10 AM, Helpful person wrote:
> >> > For a group that thinks nothing in claiming shepherd's pie can be
> >> > made with beef and refuses to acknowledge the ingredients of cottage
> >> > pie you sure get bent out of shape over regional accents.
> >>
> >> My paternal grandmother was born and raised in England and she made
> >> Shepherd's pie with beef. My maternal grandmother had mostly Scottish
> >> and Irish ancestry and her Shepherds pie was made with beef. Apparently
> >> the terms Shepherds Pie and Cottage pie are interchangeable ant it is
> >> only recently that some people started differentiating it. But, I only
> >> grew up Shepherds Pie (with beef) almost every week, so what would I know.
> >
> >Heaven's, Dave. You wouldn't know, you're Canadian!
> >
> >Whoever it is that objects obviously also thinks there's only one
> >accent/dialect in the UK and everybody does everything *exactly* the
> >same way over there.
>
> Let's see, there's an objection to how Martha Stewart pronounces
> Marinade. A previous objection to how Bobby Flay pronounces chipotle
> (chi-po-t-ley), and an objection to how what's-his-name in California
> pronounces cilantro (cil-lan-thro) Oh, and, frequent objections to
> Giada de Laurentis using Italian pronunciation for Italian food items.
> Have I forgotten any?

Yes, my objection to Jamie Oliver's speech impediment. He sounds like
he has a mouth full of marbles (which some here claim is a regional
accent). It's like listening to fingernails on a blackboard (or
worse, squeaking a balloon) to me. I can't hear his message because
it's too hard to get past his mush mouthed enunciation.

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