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This is a gag, right? What did oranges have to do with rocketry? --[[User:Gulik3|Gulik3]] 23:56, 20 May 2007 (EDT) | This is a gag, right? What did oranges have to do with rocketry? --[[User:Gulik3|Gulik3]] 23:56, 20 May 2007 (EDT) | ||
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| + | Is British marmalade different than American marmalade? [[User:HelpJazz|Help]][[User talk:HelpJazz|Jazz]] 19:52, 27 October 2008 (EDT) | ||
| + | :That entire page was obviously written by a troll. I'll see if I can get something remotely respectable up there. [[User:Samd|Samd]] 19:53, 27 October 2008 (EDT) | ||
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| + | And not one word about Paddington Bear. | ||
| + | :Actually the word comes to us from the Portuguese through French and originally had to do with quinces, not oranges. Latin is in there somewhere, and honey has had a look-in in certain references. Marmalade has a certain - um - [[complementarity]] with brown sugar. I have an indescribably moorish glaze for the Christmas ham if anyone's interested (although you'll have to wait nearly a year to try it, unless you have the good fortune to live where I live and celebrate '''''Ozmas''''' in June.} [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:24, 3 January 2015 (EST) | ||
Latest revision as of 05:24, January 3, 2015
This is a gag, right? What did oranges have to do with rocketry? --Gulik3 23:56, 20 May 2007 (EDT)
British?
Is British marmalade different than American marmalade? HelpJazz 19:52, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
- That entire page was obviously written by a troll. I'll see if I can get something remotely respectable up there. Samd 19:53, 27 October 2008 (EDT)
And not one word about Paddington Bear.
- Actually the word comes to us from the Portuguese through French and originally had to do with quinces, not oranges. Latin is in there somewhere, and honey has had a look-in in certain references. Marmalade has a certain - um - complementarity with brown sugar. I have an indescribably moorish glaze for the Christmas ham if anyone's interested (although you'll have to wait nearly a year to try it, unless you have the good fortune to live where I live and celebrate Ozmas in June.} AlanE 00:24, 3 January 2015 (EST)