[Coco] Louisiana

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Roger Taylor

> A Kiwi is a small fruit here in the U.S. :)  What's a Kiwi?

A kiwifruit was previously known as a chinese gooseberry. The name
was changed when the big exports started.

"The kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) is a large, woody, deciduous
vine native to the Yangtze Valley of China. Seeds from China were
taken to New Zealand and planted in 1906. Plants developing from
these seeds first fruited in 1910. ... In 1974 kiwifruit became the
internationally accepted name, replacing Chinese gooseberry and
kiwi."

>> Now you try, "Garndarnthupitchesthusarvo?"

> I have no clue, honestly.  Please translate that for me.  :)

"Garndarnthupitchesthusarvo?" (all said as one word).

"Garn darn thu pitches thu sarvo?"

"Going down the pictures this afternoon?"

"Going to the movies this afternoon?"

> Also, U.S. folks can mimick any other country as well and can even
fool somebody from that country.  Oh, and we have the Outback
Steakhouse here in Monroe which is Aussie-based.  The commercials are
spoken in Australian with Aussie jingles and they say the atmosphere
is Aussie.  It's a very nice and popular restaurant.  We even have
some Australians living in our city.

Actually the Outback Steakhouse has noting whatsoever to do with
Australia except as a theme. Even the company itself says it has "a
casual atmosphere suggestive of the Australian Outback". See
http://www.aussieinamerica.com/food/outback.htm for a real Aussie's
view of it. Amongst his comments: "Aussies, you have been warned.
The Outback Steakhouse is in the business of selling American food to
Americans, and not Australian food to homesick Aussies.  To complain
that it doesn't offer authentic Australian food is to miss the point,
akin to complaining that the Rainforest Cafe is nothing like a jaunt
through the Amazon."

I've never heard their commercials but I suspect they're enough to
make a wallaby laugh, unless of course they hire real Aussies - and
let then write the stuff. BTW, FWIW, no Aussie would say, "Throw
another shrimp on the barbie". The term there is prawn, not shrimp.

Neil