2011 - Day 107

[debris4spike]

Not the traditional English Sunday Lunch ... but I was at work this afternoon, so, as you can see, had to buy something before I went to the wards.   (The bottle of squash was one I had brought in with me ... staff are allowed to do that.)

Comments

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I've never seen bottled squash - is that a brand name or really a bottle of squash? The lunch looks pretty yummy...

[debris4spike]

Oh, maybe you don't call it squash - it is blackcurrant and apple flavour that's diluted by water. I am using an old bottled water bottle as it has a drinking nozzle on it.

Yes, lunch was yummy.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

Yeah, squash here is a vegetable related to gourds - lots of different kinds, but none of them drinkable. :) We'd just call mixed fruits and water "juice" if it didn't have a specific name attached to it. "Cranapple" for instance.

[debris4spike]

As I read your question it reminded me that we were given squash when we were in the USA in 1994 ... you can now buy it in England as well.

Fruit squash has always been popular in England - when I was a kid it was either Orange or Blackcurrant, now you can get assorted varities - this was, as I said blacurrant & apple, I also like peach.

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

When you were given it, was it called "squash"? I've never heard that anywhere. Fruit juices, plain and mixed, have always been available, but I've never heard them referred to as "fruit squash" Just looked it up in Wiki and found (among other things, like the definition) is this Squash is popular in the United Kingdom, France, Malta, Pakistan, Ireland, India, Scandinavia, South Africa, Kenya, Australia, Israel, New Zealand and Hong Kong. - So it seems to be more of a British/European thing. Not sure what we would call the concentrate here (orange juice that needs to be mixed is call "concentrate"), but now I'm going to take a look when I'm in the grocery store. :)

[debris4spike]

yes, the phrase has always been "squash" (as you can see here (if the link works in USA) So we were stunned when our friends started talking about squash, and then not getting out glasses and a jug of water!

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

I was going to ask the same question. LOL. Squash isn't something we drink here in the USA. We do have dry powders that we mix into a bottle of water. Lots are just favors, but many have all kinds of good things for you as well.

Is that a baked potato in your lunch? With a salad on the side?

[debris4spike]

As I read the question from slaymesoftly it reminded me that we were given squash when we were in the USA in 1994 ... you can now buy it in England as well.

Fruit squash has always been popular in England - when I was a kid it was either Orange or Blackcurrant, now you can get assorted varities - this was, as I said blacurrant & apple, I also like peach.

Yes, that's a Baked Potato with cheese and a side salad ... quite a common meal (or snack) over here.

[louise39.livejournal.com]

Looks very nutritional. You had to work a Sunday?

[debris4spike]

It was a very healthy lunch - and good basis to start work on!

Yes, I didn't ask for it, but they phoned up short of staff ... infact I'm working later today, as they've just phoned me up again.