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In Larry Niven's 'Ringworld' the explorers are always eating 'hand meals': for the longest time I resisted the obvious interpretation and imagined some unfathomable futuristic repast, but let's be honest - they're sandwiches aren't they.
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Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably. Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.
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Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
To answer your question, no, it isn’t. It’s ‘walking’ with the ‘g’ omitted, presumably as that’s how the poster would speak in person (lots of British people, myself included, would say ‘walkin’ depending on their dialect/accent). A hike is a long walk, but while you hike, you are walking.
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Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
Don't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably. Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.
In Larry Niven's 'Ringworld' the explorers are always eating 'hand meals': for the longest time I resisted the obvious interpretation and imagined some unfathomable futuristic repast, but let's be honest - they're sandwiches aren't they.
Could also be a pasty! A British meal of basically (typically meal and vegetables) wrapped in pastry, supposedly created so farm workers didn’t lose half their sandwiches when eating it.
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Don't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably. Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.
And ramblin, don't forget ramblin. eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ramblers
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Is walkin' the british slang for hiking?
Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
Downvoting you for asking was silly.
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It requires butter. A lot of butter. It's not a French delicacy but it still requires it. The butter complements the dryness and crunch of the crisps. The bread protects the mouth. One of the biggest risks to scoffing down a bag of chips is that it scratches and scrapes your mouth. So butter to complement the dryness and crunch and bread to soften the blow. It makes perfect sense.
Well if we’re on the front page of HN discussing sandwiches, bring it on. 1. Toast one side only of two slices of fresh white bread. 2. Construct a sandwich with the untoasted sides facing out. 3. Inside the sandwich place mushed banana and a sprinkle of sugar. As you bite through you get soft, crunch, soft, crunch, soft. It’s a thing of beauty. Another weird combo is crispy bacon and marmalade. In regular toasted br…
1. thickly cut doorstops of wholegrain crusty bread
2. apply very mature crunchy cheddar
3. cut banana, not mushed, is layered on top
4. a blanket of either ready-salted or salt and vinegar crips
5. and the killer blow, on the opposing slice of bread, thickly, oh so thickly spread marmite.
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Why are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
Goodness, everyone seems to be getting very worked up over my typo. I meant to type "walking". Downvoting you for asking was silly.
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You've just reminded me of a German colleague who moved to the US that was asked in his first week "How are you enjoying things? What have you found surprising?" and replied with "Shopping has been difficult because I don't recognise most of the brands or products. The supermarket has like 100 different types of bread, except as best I can tell it's actually just the 1 type of bread in 100 different shapes. Also it's…
Yes, American bread is far too sweet - mostly HFCS, but even molasses make an appearance. Let them eat cake. P.S. But I do like the sourdough and rye bread (uncommon in UK).