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Brits/Stoners

My husband loves to watch BBC America (and I do too). He really likes watching, “Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares” both to see the outcome and what the unpredictable, irascible Ramsey will do next. While I was working away on my last post, the TV was playing in the background and I heard an elderly lady say this:

“At home, you know, you never have a big joint. And it’s really lovely to have something of a really nice, big joint.”

What in the…? Wow. The sixties really took hold there. “Are they in Amsterdam?” I asked.

My husband got a big laugh and then explained that a “joint” is a piece of beef. Good thing he didn’t ask for a joint on his first few trips out to a restaurant in the States. It could have been an interesting outcome, one perhaps involving bail and negating any possibility of citizenship.

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