This is the only place I've seen Rx in the UK:
https://i.imgur.com/YaH6h6p.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 16 February 2024 21:16 (seven months ago) link
Indeed... I was gonna say that the Royal Trux logo makes less sense to those unfamilar with the comman usage of Rx in the US.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 16 February 2024 21:18 (seven months ago) link
"ketchup"
― Bellend Sebastian (S-), Friday, 26 April 2024 02:56 (five months ago) link
big tough dudes who are scared to be naked or see others naked
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:00 (five months ago) link
_*Rx* is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive"._Is this used anywhere outside of the US?
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:19 (five months ago) link
fuckin right
take your catsup bullshit elsewhere
― mookieproof, Friday, 26 April 2024 03:41 (five months ago) link
I regret to inform you that the catsup bullshit is even more American than ketchup
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 08:02 (five months ago) link
yeah ketchup is tbh widespread
catsup is American and only american that ive ever seen
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 08:06 (five months ago) link
Except that "ketchup" derives from Dutch/Malay "ketjap." But hey let's not let anything like facts get in the way of cheap anti-US zings
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 April 2024 09:09 (five months ago) link
The etymology of the word ketchup is unclear and has multiple competing theories:
also im not seeing the vicious anti yank zing here but hey
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 09:26 (five months ago) link
_"ketchup"_fuckin righttake your catsup bullshit elsewhere
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:37 (five months ago) link
"Catsup" is about as American a word as it's possible to be.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:38 (five months ago) link
i think you meant to quote/link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup#Etymology .... and, dang!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:42 (five months ago) link
"Fancy" ketchupSome ketchup in the U.S. is labeled "Fancy". This is a USDA grade, relating to specific gravity. Fancy ketchup has a higher tomato solid concentration than other USDA grades.
Some ketchup in the U.S. is labeled "Fancy". This is a USDA grade, relating to specific gravity. Fancy ketchup has a higher tomato solid concentration than other USDA grades.
ain't that America!
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 12:43 (five months ago) link
Said here's your ketchup, fancy don't let me down!
― pplains, Friday, 26 April 2024 13:45 (five months ago) link
"i think you meant to quote/link"
well how very presumptuous
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:49 (five months ago) link
sure the difference in use of the word "fancy" between USA/UK has led to some hilarious misunderstandings re:costumes at "fancy dress" parties.
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:52 (five months ago) link
cmon you even pasted the colon
like so much digital catsup
xp
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 13:52 (five months ago) link
i post precisely what i mean to say, nothing more, nothing less!
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:05 (five months ago) link
the Heinz squeeze nozzle of posters
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:20 (five months ago) link
I think the only American I’ve ever heard say “catsup” was Porky Pig
― brimstead, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:22 (five months ago) link
That's one more cartoon pig than anywhere outside the US tbf
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:39 (five months ago) link
I always thought it was pronounced like "ketchup" regardless of how it was spelled.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2024 14:39 (five months ago) link
_*Rx* is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions derived from the Latin verb recipere, "take / receive"._
Is this used anywhere outside of the US?
Yeah, in medicine worldwide, but it’s more like a term of trade rather than in widespread use. Also Hx, patient history, Dx, diagnosis, etc.― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, April 25, 2024 11:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Yep. I work at a hospital in the UK and we use all of these.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:40 (five months ago) link
I don't understand the original post though. What's wrong with ketchup? It's a hell of a lot better than red sauce or tomato sauce both of which I've heard here and are dumb. Tomato sauce is for pasta duh. Red sauce is just inexcusable.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Friday, 26 April 2024 14:41 (five months ago) link
^ classic American thing
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 15:37 (five months ago) link
On behalf of the culture behind salsa roja I must reluctantly fp enbb I also don’t understand the original post tho, virtually everybody says ketchup here ime (incidentally it is called catsup in Mexico but otherwise I think that is a specifically American regionalism so yeah a baffling counter to the odd original post)
― subpost master (wins), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:06 (five months ago) link
here imeis there anywhere else
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 16:55 (five months ago) link
Than the uk? Happily yes
― subpost master (wins), Friday, 26 April 2024 17:06 (five months ago) link
Using "english" when playing cue sports (= side spin)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 26 April 2024 17:17 (five months ago) link
ketchup/tomato sauce is interchangeable in my own cultural experience
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
hi sorry, what
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:11 (five months ago) link
My late Sicilian grandmother is attempting to climb out of her grave
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:21 (five months ago) link
tell her to tomato sauce
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:22 (five months ago) link
Lol
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 18:23 (five months ago) link
Happily yesI wonder if it’s possible that a poster from another place, posting on a borad historically overpopulated with people from another place, on a thread started by a person from another place to simply note “American things,” might simply be noting the existence of a sweetened American-derived product that, for eg, Heinz gave up on even manufacturing in that place after a concerted campaign of decades to increase their sales of ketchup vs their own version of the local condiment languished in single-digit percentages
― bae (sic), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:12 (five months ago) link
Baked beans?
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:13 (five months ago) link
I guess “baked beans” is probably an American thing
saying "red sauce" "brown sauce" clearly indicates that I know this is chemical shit but I'm eating it anyway. 👍
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:14 (five months ago) link
brb making brown sauce
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 19:21 (five months ago) link
sure the difference in use of the word "fancy" between USA/UK has led to some hilarious misunderstandings re:costumes at "fancy dress" parties.― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
i just use "fancy" to mean "gay"
mind you i mean every word to mean "gay"
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:56 (five months ago) link
saying "red sauce" "brown sauce" clearly indicates that I know this is chemical shit but I'm eating it anyway. 👍― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length)
see i don't read it that way, i have these arguments with my second oldest brother, who lives in cincinnati and is thus obligated to defend their disgusting idea of "chili", despite his being a chef. what he says is "as long as you think of it as a red sauce and not chili it's fine". "red sauce", "brown sauce", "white sauce", to me these are respected culinary terms.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:59 (five months ago) link
I'm pretty sure "brown sauce" in Blighty doesn't mean espagnole it means this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sauce
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:08 (five months ago) link
also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:09 (five months ago) link
_ Happily yes_I wonder if it’s possible that a poster from another place, posting on a borad historically overpopulated with people from another place, on a thread started by a person from another place to simply note “American things,” might simply be noting the existence of a sweetened American-derived product that, for eg, Heinz gave up on even manufacturing in that place after a concerted campaign of decades to increase their sales of ketchup vs their own version of the local condiment languished in single-digit percentages
― subpost master (wins), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:20 (five months ago) link
itt: brown sauce, pasted colons
― 145 feet up in a Jeffrey Pine (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 26 April 2024 21:39 (five months ago) link
I'm pretty sure "brown sauce" in Blighty doesn't mean espagnole it means this stuff
Great stuff, especially on a square sliced sausage in a roll.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:01 (five months ago) link
Brown colons are an international phenomenon
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:02 (five months ago) link
when I worked at Chevy's Fresh Mex in the early 2000s, there was a marinade for the fajitas that was called out on the menu as "Agua Negra".
one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER", and like the more he went on it didn't seem like he was kidding. I should have just told him we put feces in our food cos he seemed unwilling to believe me that we weren't poisoning the food and advertising it on the menu.
in actuality it's just a soy-sauce based marinade, something like
1 cup Soy Sauce2 cups Pineapple Juice2 tablespoons ground Cumin1 1/2 teaspoons minced Garlic1/4 cup freshly squeezed Lime Juice
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:06 (five months ago) link
also cincinnati chili is good not bad fyiyd― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)
you're wrong, silby
wrong on the internet
i'm terribly upset about this
one doofus, probably trying to brag about his very cursory knowledge of Spanish for his date, kept concern trolling me about it, saying "did you know in Spanish that means BROWN WATER?! I sure hope they're not slathering our steak in MUSTY OLD BROWN WATER"― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal)
punish him by making him listen to the doobie brothers until he learns more spanish
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:22 (five months ago) link