At least it’s got me blogging after a very long absence.
The cheese making guru instructor, Tracey, is a lovely human being. She’s a funny down to earth character with a fantastic British accent. She has only been in Canada eleven years.
Towards the end of the session, she was laughing about the differences in words and pronunciations between England and Canada. She told the story of her teenage daughter rightly being horrified after they had been in Canada for a while when she referred to eating faggots. Which I think are meatballs made with pig guts or something. And of course she can no long call cigarettes fags, as they do in England.
Tracey commented about having to think about the word oregano every time she says it. She had said it a few times throughout the day and I noticed that in the course of conversation she sometimes said it “Oh raygun oh” like a Canadian and other times she pronounced it her native way of “Or a ganno.”
My favourite word to hear someone with a British accent say is “aluminum.”
So I smirked as I pointed to the stock pots we were making our cheese in, and said to Tracey, “Just humour me and say what these pots are made of.”
She looked me right in the eye and said, “Stainless steel.”
If you want to check out Tracey's cheese making page you can CLICK HERE
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