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I have just been reading a list of suggested home-made Christmas culinary presents (which is here, if you're curious). And, since it's American, doing the usual of wondering "what is corn syrup and where do I get it? what is the English equivalent of unsulfered molasses, anyway?".
Anyway, here is a poll, prompted by one of the items on the list:
[Poll #1775159]
[*] For some reason, always known in my family as suggestive biscuits.
Irrelevant question: on t'tinternet, lyrics sites give my subject line as "and I need all the love that I can't get to". Which, while being technically ungrammatical, might be what was meant. I'd always assumed it should be heard as "and I also need all the love that I can't get".
Anyway, here is a poll, prompted by one of the items on the list:
[Poll #1775159]
[*] For some reason, always known in my family as suggestive biscuits.
Irrelevant question: on t'tinternet, lyrics sites give my subject line as "and I need all the love that I can't get to". Which, while being technically ungrammatical, might be what was meant. I'd always assumed it should be heard as "and I also need all the love that I can't get".
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-02 12:29 pm (UTC)There is a theory that Hershey's chocolate uses butyric acid to stabilise the milk. Butyric acid is found in butter, parmesan cheese, and vomit. Sounds about right to me...
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:32 pm (UTC)The tour guide laughed when all the Americans gobbled down their free samples and we Brits ummed and ahhed and discreetly binned our half-bitten squares. Apparently it happens on any tour when there are Europeans present. (But the S'mores thing was really rather good. I think the marshmallow counteracts the parmesanness, or something.)
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:38 pm (UTC)There is nice American chocolate, but Hershey's ain't it.
(Though oddly I do admit to liking those Reese's peanut cup thingies, which are made from Hershey's chocolate and peanut butter, both of which are independently disgusting.)
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:40 pm (UTC)Yes, we've just finished a bag of peanut butter cup things which
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:44 pm (UTC)Maybe that's why I like it.
I like peanuts. I really do. About once a year I convince myself that, logically, I must like peanut butter, and so I try it.
And you know what? It's always unspeakably vile.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-02 12:21 pm (UTC)I only know this from trying to make fake blood.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:40 pm (UTC)Gah. Earwormed. Cueing up Vision Thing, stat.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:42 pm (UTC)Idiots.
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Date: 2011-09-02 03:44 pm (UTC)"And I need all the love that I can't get to" is grammatically bad. It should be "And I need all the love to which I can't get", or something. Which would be a bit of a crap lyric, I concede :) That's why I described is being only technically ungrammatical, because it's the kind of thing people say all the time and only pendants object to.
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with "And I need all the love that I can't get, too".
I'm not sure what you mean by the 'chant' bit. I think the lines:
"And I need all the love I can get,
And I need all the love that I can't get, too."
Are fairly sensible. Just (according to the sleevenotes) not what was intended :)
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Date: 2011-09-03 11:44 pm (UTC)Whoops! :-) I miss-read, when you said "Which, while being technically ungrammatical,..." was in reference to "...too", when you were actually referring to the use of "...to". Yes, I totally agree with your "And I need all the love to which I can't get" restructuring of the line. I'm far to poor with grammar and spelling to notice such things; I'll gladly take your literacy skills above mine any day!
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Date: 2011-09-02 03:50 pm (UTC)Aha! I think I've just understood. Perhaps you heard the two lines as identical excepting the to/too on the end? I hear them as one saying "can" and one saying "can't"... and on that point at least lyrics sites seem to agree.
So the two things in relation are all the love you can get and all the love you can't get.
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Date: 2011-09-03 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-09-03 11:55 pm (UTC)The first time that string of lines is sung, the longer "...can't...to" version is the first one heard. So, if it was intended to be "...too" (as in "aswell"), what would it be comparing against?
i.e:
I like milk.
I like cream, too.
makes sense. The second line is referring to the first line. Both are read in order.
Where-as:
I like cream, too.
I like Milk.
doesn't make great sense, as the first line is referring to the second line which had been read yet.
I'm not sure if I'm explaining my point coherently enough. It's really hard to try to lay my mind out in text form... :'-(
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Date: 2011-09-05 09:56 am (UTC)Your cream/milk example makes sense. I just don't think that the "...can't ... to" line is the first line heard in the song! Will have to go and check when I have a spare minute.
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:53 pm (UTC)I suppose it's molasses with no sulphur added. Accordingly: Why would one want to put sulphur in molasses anyway?
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Date: 2011-09-02 01:00 pm (UTC)The source should be obvious :)
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Date: 2011-09-05 10:10 am (UTC)Whether or not it's got sulphur in it is to do with whether it was made from mature or immature sugar cane.
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Date: 2011-09-02 07:03 pm (UTC)Did I promise videos of Judith dancing? I forget. I shall try, anyway.
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Date: 2011-09-04 10:24 am (UTC)The dislike of marshmallows has led to the discovery that toasted Haribo is very nice, if occasionally volcanic.
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Date: 2011-09-02 10:07 pm (UTC)(Let me know if you want to try corn syrup. We have a shop here selling US imports and they often have a few odd ingredients in. Also lots of Reeses stuff. I can bring some to Whitby if needed)
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Date: 2011-09-21 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-21 05:44 pm (UTC)http://www.americansweets.co.uk/
Our local people are
http://www.4thofjuly.co.uk/
These are the ones with the shop in Coventry :) so I use them now. They don't have an ordering stuff bit of the website yet, but will do mail order if phoned.
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