Canon Attempts New Supertele Patents

[Loswr]

Boiled in hog's lard, yummy and so healthy.

Maybe that's what Dunkies uses, too?

 

[Del Paso]

Similar but different...
When I last was in Scotland, I needed fuel for my little camping burner. Since I didn't know the precise English word for a product named "petrole" in French, I just asked for "petroleum".
All wrong...the salesman didn't understand me.
Using my hands and feet, I tried to explain what I meant. Reaction: "Oh, you mean pink paraffin"...which in French means a kind of solid grease.
Other stores sold it as "blue paraffin", "lamp oil"etc...
In the US, it's named "kerosine", the French "kerosene" being exclusively an aviation fuel...
"Petrol" in the UK is "essence" in France, "gasoline" in the US, and the French "petrole" stands for crude oil...
And, if I'm not mistaken, "petroleum" in the UK is crude oil, in Germany it means "petrole, kerosine, pink paraffin".
What a mess!

 

[AlanF]

Similar but different...
When I last was in Scotland, I needed fuel for my little camping burner. Since I didn't know the precise English word for a product named "petrole" in French, I just asked for "petroleum".
All wrong...the salesman didn't understand me.
Using my hands and feet, I tried to explain what I meant. Reaction: "Oh, you mean pink paraffin"...which in French means a kind of solid grease.
Other stores sold it as "blue paraffin", "lamp oil"etc...
In the US, it's named "kerosine", the French "kerosene" being exclusively an aviation fuel...
"Petrol" in the UK is "essence" in France, "gasoline" in the US, and the French "petrole" stands for crude oil...
And, if I'm not mistaken, "petroleum" in the UK is crude oil, in Germany it means "petrole, kerosine, pink paraffin".
What a mess!

Let's settle on British English and all will be clear.

 

[takesome1]

Maybe that's what Dunkies uses, too?

Makes sense, they use Munchkins and lard from Hogs flown in from Kansas.

(In actuality, Dunkies uses Palm Oil, the impact of deforestation is another issue entirely. It has almost no nutritional value and as you eat your favorite variety enjoy as you contribute to destroying the forests of the world. We could get another thread derailed with this issue.)

 

[takesome1]

Let's settle on British English and all will be clear.

In the US lorry is a girl who I used to date who spelled her name with one to many R's. I used to pick her up in my truck to take her to the movies.

 

[Del Paso]

Let's settle on British English and all will be clear.

Pink paraffin or blue paraffin or lamp-oil?

 

[Loswr]

Pink paraffin or blue paraffin or lamp-oil?

Wood.

 

[AlanF]

Makes sense, they use Munchkins and lard from Hogs flown in from Kansas.

(In actuality, Dunkies uses Palm Oil, the impact of deforestation is another issue entirely. It has almost no nutritional value and as you eat your favorite variety enjoy as you contribute to destroying the forests of the world. We could get another thread derailed with this issue.)

Had you noticed that the increase in the frequency of Doughnut and Donut parallels the increase in obesity? Doughnuts are off-topic but what else can we talk about when the Nikonistas are penis-a-hoop over the first YouTubes of the Z 800mm f/6.3?

 

[takesome1]

Had you noticed that the increase in the frequency of Doughnut and Donut parallels the increase in obesity? Doughnuts are off-topic but what else can we talk about when the Nikonistas are penis-a-hoop over the first YouTubes of the Z 800mm f/6.3?

Doing a quick Yahoo search of "are doughnuts fattening" provided the answer:
"Hell no, donuts aren't fattening. The secret is to eat only one per day, and nothing else. Just the one donut."
Of course this is one reason I do not get my news from Yahoo news anymore.

Google provided a less pleasant answer:
"Eating too many of them may lead to weight gain and increase your risk of diabetes and heart disease over time."
By my personal observations I think this answer is accurate.

 

[Loswr]

Doing a quick Yahoo search of "are doughnuts fattening" provided the answer:
"Hell no, donuts aren't fattening. The secret is to eat only one per day, and nothing else. Just the one donut."
Of course this is one reason I do not get my news from Yahoo news anymore.

Google provided a less pleasant answer:
"Eating too many of them may lead to weight gain and increase your risk of diabetes and heart disease over time."
By my personal observations I think this answer is accurate.

Thus munchkins. You can eat more of them because they’re smaller.

 

[AlanF]

Thus munchkins. You can eat more of them because they’re smaller.

Eating the holes left behind by the munchkins is better still.

 

[cayenne]

Here in New England they're called Munchkins, at least at Dunkin'. The first time I want into a DD after relocating to MA, I asked for a box of donut holes and the guy behind the counter looked at me like I was ordering foie gras. I pointed at the racks behind him, and he said, "Oh, you mean munchkins." I wondered why he expected me to eat little people from Oz.

Damned yankees.....
Got a different word for everything.

 

[SteveC]

Wait, I thought all the calories ended up in the punched out part of the donut (the hole or munchkin or whateverthebloodyhell).