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Default "Pie and chips"???!! Those *** Brits!!!


"LucasP" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in
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>>>>But what on spinning Earth does the British gecko mean in those tv
>>>>commercials when saying that insurance quotes are as popular as "pie
>>>>and chips"?!
>>>>
>>>>I have some fondness of British culture, accents and language, and
>>>>while I've heard of British cuisine as being, um, let us say ...
>>>>exotic ... I've never heard of "pie AND chips" as some kind of meal,
>>>>desert or side dish.
>>>>
>>>>Unless, does "pie" mean something different in English than it does
>>>>in American?


Umm perhaps you could be a little more careful with your attributions! I
did not write the above, I responded to it!!

Ophelia

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