Puddings?

[ladyofastolat]

Someone at work lent me a bizarre Wii game called Cooking Mama, in which you have to "cook" various world dishes. The game is very clearly Japanese. The first example of national British cuisine is something unhelpfully called a generic "pudding", and it consists of egg, milk, sugar, grand marnier and vanilla. It's put in small pots, then tipped out into a plate, where it keeps its shape, and is yellow, with a brown top. What on earth is this supposed to be? The second British dish is "cream puffs", which, if I remember correctly through the slightly alcoholic haze of last night, contain salt.

As you play, "cooking mama", in a very strong Japanese accent, tells you how you've done. When you do well, she says something that sounds like "good dog." If you do pathetically, she says "don't mind." Your final ratings are either "very good", "good" or "try hard." I like "try hard" as another way of saying "you're hopeless" and plan to use it.

I'm at work today, getting driven mad by the constant beeping of the events team's answer phone. Grr! Still, I've taken Monday as leave, so after today, don't need to be at work until January 2nd. Yay! We're off to The Mainland tomorrow, so if I don't post again, I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas / winter festival of their choice.

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Still mulling this over...

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about why I hate the word 'lounge'. I think it's partly because of the way it seems to want to be said, looouuuunge, all sort of louche and decadent, partly because of 'lounge lizards', and partly because I have enough trouble with being tempted to lounge around uselessly as it is, without giving it official sanction by having a whole room dedicated to the activity. (I think these reasons are all a bit connected, in my head.) Having a 'sitting room' is much safer, shades of exhortations to 'sit nicely', 'sit up straight' ;-)

Oddly enough, 'sitting room' was pretty much a conscious choice of mine (probably the only one of the ones I've mentioned, and as noted it doesn't count on the U/non-U scale anyway as it isn't given as an option); growing up, we had what was very practically called the 'front room', but I have never since then lived in a house with a front room. In our previous house the relevant room was at the back, in this one, really *everything* is a front room, so singling out just one would be silly. Skordh, I notice, tends to say 'living room' (also not a listed alternative), but I'm rather averse to that, as somehow it seems to imply other rooms aren't for living in, which feels a bit creepy.