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Why is it when I suck a boiled sweet (sugar free of course), I cannot suck it for longer than 5 minutes as I feel an extremely strong urge to crunch it in my teeth, and hey presto, its gone.

Lack of patience? I don't know - I find the same thing. (Except I generally don't have sugar-free ones )

I think so! Although I managed to suck one until it was very tiny today. Besides, I know that if I don't crunch them, then they'll last for longer.

From context I'm guessing a boiled sweet is what's called a hard candy here in the states. Like a peppermint or a Life Saver? I gotta admit that this is a British-ism I haven't heard before. (Not that I have an answer to the question, mind you. I just like collecting odd slang.)

Haha. I don't eat very English (I hate English food i.e. well done beef, full English breakfast etc), but I talk very English!

Could be worse, you could have to eat Scottish food. (And I say that as someone who had an ancestor pretending to be part of Birnham Wood while marching on Glaims and who's family was on the loosing side at Culloden)

Ooo tell me about Scottish food!

Um, it's sort of the Vogon poetry of the culinary world? I mean when the item that you're best known for it haggis, it's time to just give up and get a nice vindiloo from the nearest take-away shop... (If you're unfamiliar, haggis is random sheep organs with oatmeal boiled in a sheep's stomach.)

That's interesting. I wonder how hungry they were when they invented that one!

My dad's side of the family has lots of Norwegian and English in it; Norwegian food tastes really good. Like futtimon, meaning "poor man's treat" is a good fried cookie that has cardemom, flour, and eggs in it; my grandma and I usually make for Chrismas. Then there's kompe, a dish where there are shredded potato balls and you pour a little bacon grease on it (I don't eat too much of it, otherwise I be a little horizantally bigger than I am now). I haven't eaten English food before, but I've heard some things about it (most people that I heard didn't like it very much). Of course, lots of the world probably views American food weird if they think that all we eat is McDonalds and drink Coke, and that we're all fat and all we drive are big Chevy trucks (that's what a German exchange student said that she thought before coming to school; and she said that most people believed that from TV! lol)

excuse me????

Careful, it's a good way to break a tooth. I had this happen and it really hurt.

Less hungry than the first person to eat an oyster. (shudder) Assuming, of course, that the first person to do that wasn't simply the cave-man version of a frat-boy during pledge week... "Ok, next Thag have to eat slimy thing we just crack out of weird flat rock!"

Don't worry, I know what haggis is. It sounds nice. I ought to try it. But EEK, its terribly unhealthy! ( http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/item/74464.html ) I would have to eat a little bit of it, perhaps 50g.