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rubato wrote:Accents, cheeses and dog breeds are the three great contributions of the UK to world culture.


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Top 10 Contributions of Britain to the World

10. Luxury cars:

Some of the very first engines, including automobiles were first invented in Britain. Centuries ago, only Britain could possibly fund the research and development required for producing working models of automobiles and other mechanical systems. Some of the world’s best luxury cars including Rolls Royce, Jaguar, Aston Martin and Bentley were given to the world by Britain’s engineers.

9. Economic reforms:

A number of economic reforms that transformed the millions of lives on the planet were first conceptualized and implemented by Britain. Notable among these are the ideas of free trade, liberalism, capitalism and mercantilism. These economic reforms may have had adverse effects on some communities or countries in the world at some point in time but they’ve largely contributed in shaping the economic development of the world.

8. Constitutional monarchy:

Constitutional monarchy that later evolved into the present form of democracy – a government of the people, by the people and for the people – was a system of governance that Britain gave to the world. In a constitutional monarchy, a king or queen is not in the absolute control of the state of its people. It is the constitution which actually outlines the rules and regulations that have to be followed by everyone, including the head of the state.

7. Music revolution:

Pop music and other derivative genres magically took the world by storm over the last many decades. Music bands that formed in Britain grew up to become household names in dozens of countries in the world. Pink Floyd, Beatles and Rolling Stones are few names that would perhaps be remembered for generations to come. These bands laid the foundation of both cultural and anti-cultural revolutions in the world. [I have to say that I question this one getting a higher ranking then modern economics and representative government; those two seem just a tad more significant to me.]

6. Literary revolution:

Some of the legends in the world of literature and poetry were Britons. Shakespeare, Kipling, Dickens and Milton are few great literary geniuses that Britain gave to the world. Till this day, even the most talented writers, poets and novelists are compelled to wonder if some of these people, Shakespeare for instance, were actually real and not mythical personalities created by combining works of many.

5. Strengthened the foundation of science:

Britain gave some of the best scientists and philosophers to the world. Newton, a British scientist postulated gravitational laws and invented Calculus that laid the foundation of several branches of Physics and Mathematics. Darwin, a British biologist who gave the theory of Evolution, influenced the opinions of billions of people on the planet.[real scientists are probably familiar with this.]

4. Machine tools:

Machine tools are now used by millions of manufacturers all over the world. These tools are used to carry out mass production of prototypes or models. The concept of producing an object repeatedly by designing a machine tool was first conceived in Britain. It was the British Navy that first designed machine tools to create various components for their rigging in large quantities.

3. Industrial revolution:

It was due to industrial revolution in Great Britain powered by several scientific discoveries and inventions that the state looked forward to serious economic expansion in 16th and 17th centuries. While the state ended up enslaving many poorly run states and kingdoms across the world, it did carry forward the spark of industrial revolution in all countries it ruled, including America. True to the popular belief, Britain contributed a lot to the world at large, but the way it did so, remains questionable till date.

2. Mechanical inventions:

It is impossible to imagine a world without mechanical inventions such as railway, automobiles, gas turbines etc. We’d suddenly find ourselves in the 15th century if all modern day systems based on these inventions are taken away. All these mechanical systems were invented by researchers, engineers and scientists in Britain.

1. The English language:

The English language has played a big role in uniting the world. Today, ideas get communicated so easily from one country to the other only because billions of people on the planet can speak and understand English. Had there been no ‘Global Language’, acceptable to all countries in the world, many developing nations would have been unable to profit from the boons of industrialization, scientific advancements & technological innovations.

http://topyaps.com/top-10-contributions ... -the-world

England

Airedale Terrier

Beagle

Bearded Collie

Bedlington Terrier

Border Collie

Border Terrier

Bull Dog

Bullmastiff
Bull Terrier

Cardigan Welsh Corgi

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

Clumber Spaniel

Collie

Curly-Coated Retriever

English Cocker Spaniel

English Foxhound

English Pointer

English Setter

English Springer Spaniel

English Toy Spaniel

Field spaniel

Flat-Coated Retriever

Golden Retriever

Harrier

Lakeland Terrier

Manchester Terrier

Miniature Bull Terrier

Norfolk Terrier

Norwich Terrier

Old English Sheepdog

Otterhound

Parson Russell Terrier

Pembroke Welsh Corgi

Sealyham Terrier

Shetland Sheepdog

Smooth Fox Terrier

Staffordshire Bull Terrier

Sussex Spaniel

Welsh Springer Spaniel

Welsh Terrier

Whippet

Wire Fox Terrier

Yorkshire Terrier

List of British cheeses
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A wedge of unpasteurised West Country Cheddar cheese, made in Somerset (with Protected Designation of Origin.)

This is a list of cheese from the United Kingdom. The British Cheese Board states that "there are over 700 named British cheeses produced in the UK."[1]

Contents

1 Blue cheeses
2 Hard cheeses
3 Semi-hard cheeses
4 Soft and semi-soft cheeses
5 Other
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading

Blue cheeses

Blue cheese is a general classification of cow's milk, sheep's milk, or goat's milk cheeses that have had cultures of the mold Penicillium added so that the final product is spotted or veined throughout with blue, blue-gray or blue-green mold, and carries a distinct smell, either from that or various specially cultivated bacteria.
Dorset Blue Vinney
Shropshire Blue: the orange colour comes from the addition of annatto, a natural food colouring.

Bath Blue
Barkham Blue – a creamy and rich blue cheese with a moldy rind.[2]
Beenleigh Blue – a thin-rinded, unpressed soft blue cheese made from organic unpasteurized ewe's milk produced in Ashprington, Devon County, England.[3][4]
Birdwood Blue Heaven [2]
Blacksticks Blue [2]
Blissful Blue Buffalo [2]
Blue Monday – named after the song by New Order, it is a cube-shaped cheese.[5]
Brighton Blue
Buxton Blue (Protected Designation of Origin, currently not produced[6])
Cheshire Blue [7]
Cornish Blue – from Cornwall in the United Kingdom, and is made by the Cornish Cheese Company at Upton Cross.
Devon Blue – a creamy blue cheese made by the Ticklemore Cheese Company using pasteurised cows milk, it is aged for four months.[8]
Dorset Blue Vinney (Protected Geographical Indication)[9] – a traditional blue cheese made near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk. It is a hard, crumbly cheese.
Dovedale (Protected Designation of Origin) – a full-fat semi-soft blue-veined cheese made from cow's milk. It is from the Peak District of Great Britain.
Dunsyre Blue [10]
Exmoor Blue (Protected Geographical Indication)[2]
Garstang Blue, made by Dewlay of Garstang.Cows milk pastuerised Veg.Soft creamy lancashire texture with smooth blue flavour.
Harbourne Blue has a crumby, dense and firm texture with 48% fat content.[11] It's is a goat's cheese produced by Robin Congdon at Ticklemore Cheese Company in Devon,[12] near Totnes. It is made by hand by using local milk.[13]
Isle of Wight Blue [14]
Lanark Blue – a Scottish blue cheese made from unpasteurised sheep milk.[15]
Lymeswold was an English cheese variety that is no longer produced. The cheese was a soft, mild blue cheese with an edible white rind,[16] much like Brie, and was inspired by French cheeses. Production ceased in 1992.
Oxford Blue [17]
Ribblesdale Blue Goat [10]
Radden Blue [10]
Shropshire Blue – a blue cheese made from pasteurised cows' milk that is prepared using vegetable rennet.
Stichelton – an English blue cheese similar to Blue Stilton cheese, except that it does not use pasteurised milk or factory-produced rennet.[18]
Stilton (Protected Designation of Origin) – an English cheese, produced in two varieties: the blue variety is known for its characteristic strong smell and taste. The lesser-known white Stilton cheese is a milder, semi-soft cheese.
Blue Wensleydale – a crumbly, moist cheese produced in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England.
Yorkshire Blue [19]

Blue Stilton cheese

Stichelton

Hard cheeses

Granular cheese, also referred to as hard cheese, is a type of cheese produced by repeatedly stirring and draining a mixture of curd and whey. It can refer to a wide variety of cheeses. Some hard cheeses are aged for years.
Caerphilly cheese
Swaledale cheese

Ashdown Foresters – is a cow's milk hard cheese made in England with a sweet, nutty flavor.
Caerphilly – a light-coloured (almost white), crumbly cheese made from cow's milk, and generally has a fat content of around 48%. It has a mild taste, with its most noticeable feature being a not unpleasant slightly sour tang.
Cheddar – a relatively hard, pale yellow to off-white (unless artificially coloured), and sometimes sharp-tasting, cheese. Originating in the English village of Cheddar in Somerset,[20] cheeses of this style are produced beyond this region and in several countries around the world.
Cathedral City Cheddar
Davidstow Cheddar
West Country Farmhouse Cheddar (Protected Designation of Origin)
Applewood
Appleby Cheshire
Cheshire – a dense and crumbly cheese produced in the English county of Cheshire, and four neighbouring counties, two in Wales (Denbighshire and Flintshire) and two in England (Shropshire and Staffordshire).
Duddleswell – a hard creamy cheese with a nutty flavor.[2]
Dunlop cheese – a mild cheese or 'sweet-milk cheese' from Dunlop in East Ayrshire, Scotland.[21] It resembles a soft Cheddar cheese in texture.
Hereford Hop – a firm cheese that has a rind of toasted hops.[15]
Lancashire – there are three distinct varieties of Lancashire cheese. Young Creamy Lancashire and mature Tasty Lancashire are produced by a traditional method, whereas Crumbly Lancashire (more commonly known as Lancashire Crumbly within Lancashire) is a more recent creation suitable for mass production. It is a cow's-milk cheese from the county of Lancashire.
Beacon Fell Traditional Lancashire Cheese – a Protected Designation of Origin name, that can be used only for cheese made in a designated area by a designated method.
Bowland cheese – a type of Lancashire cheese, with the cheese having been mixed with apple, sultana and cinnamon prior to setting. It is named after the Forest of Bowland, which is situated in the east of Lancashire in England.
Lincolnshire Poacher – a hard unpasteurised cow's milk cheese that is generally of a cylindrical shape with its rind resembling granite in appearance.[22] It is made on Ulceby Farm, in Lincolnshire, England, by craft cheesemaker Richard Tagg.
Red Leicester – an English cheese made in a similar manner to Cheddar cheese, although it is crumblier. Since the 18th century, it has been coloured orange by adding annatto extract during manufacture.
Rothbury Red [10]
Swaledale (Protected Designation of Origin) – a full fat hard cheese produced in the town of Richmond in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England.[23]
Teviotdale (Protected Geographical Indication) – produced from the milk of Jersey cattle, there are no known current producers of this cheese. It's a full fat, hard cheese produced in the area of Teviotdale on the border lands between Scotland and England, within a radius of 90 km from the summit of Peel Fell in the Cheviot Hills.[24]
Y Fenni – a variety of Welsh cheese, consisting of Cheddar cheese blended with mustard seed and ale. It has a firm texture.
Red Dragon is Y Fenni cheese that is coated in red wax.

Cheshire cheese

Dunlop cheese

Lancashire cheese

Red Leicester

Y Fenni cheese

Semi-hard cheeses

Cheeses that are classified as semi-hard to hard include Cheddar. Cheddar is one of a family of semi-hard or hard cheeses (including Cheshire and Gloucester), whose curd is cut, gently heated, piled, and stirred before being pressed into forms.
Cornish Yarg prepared with wild garlic
Sage Derby

Coquetdale [10] – a full-fat semi-hard cheese, made from pasteurised cow's milk and vegetarian rennet.
Cornish Yarg – a semi-hard cow's milk cheese made in Cornwall, United Kingdom from the milk of Friesian cows. Before being left to mature, this cheese is wrapped in nettle leaves to form an edible, though mouldy, rind.
Wild Garlic Yarg
Cotswold – made by blending chives and spring onions into Double Gloucester. The orange cheese is coloured similarly to Cotswold stone.[25]
Derby – a mild, semi-firm British cow's milk cheese made in Derbyshire with a smooth, mellow texture and a buttery flavour.
Little Derby – a Derby-style cheese made outside Derbyshire, similar in flavour and texture to Cheddar, but without the anatto colouring used in Derby cheese.
Sage Derby – a variety of Derby cheese that is mild, mottled green and semi-hard, and has a sage flavour. The colour is from sage and sometimes other colouring added to the curds, producing a marbling effect and a subtle herb flavour.
Gloucester cheese – a traditional unpasteurised, semi-hard cheese which has been made in Gloucestershire, England, since the 16th century, at one time made only with the milk of the once nearly extinct Gloucester cattle. There are two types of Gloucester cheese: Single and Double; both are traditionally made from milk from Gloucestershire breed cows farmed within the English county of Gloucestershire.
Single Gloucester (Protected Designation of Origin)
Double Gloucester
Goosnargh Gold – a rich Double Gloucester cheese with buttery flavour.[10][26]
Keltic Gold – a Cornish semi-hard cheese dipped in cider. The milk comes from Trewithen Dairy and the cider from Cornish Orchards.
Red Windsor – a pale cream, English cheddar cheese, made using pasteurised cow's milk marbled with a wine, often a Bordeaux wine or a blend of port wine and brandy.
Wensleydale – also produced as a blue cheese, it's produced with many additives such as cranberries, ginger, etc.

Double Gloucester cheese (center)

Red Windsor

Wensleydale cheese

Wensleydale with cranberries

Soft and semi-soft cheeses

Semi-soft cheeses have a high moisture content and tend to be blander in flavour compared to harder cheeses.
Stinking Bishop cheese
Tintern cheese

Bath Soft Cheese [2]
Beacon Fell traditional Lancashire (Protected Designation of Origin) – a semi-soft cheese prepared with cow's milk that is produced in the region of Lancashire.[27]
Bonchester [10] (Protected Designation of Origin) – a Scottish soft cheese made from cow's milk, produced at Bonchester Bridge, Roxburghshire.
Brie – a soft cow's milk cheese named after Brie, the French region from which it originated.
Cornish Brie – a type of brie-style, soft, white rinded cheese from Cornwall in the United Kingdom.
Somerset Brie
Caboc – a Scottish cream cheese, made with double cream or cream-enriched milk. This rennet-free cheese is formed into a log shape and rolled in toasted pinhead oatmeal, to be served with oatcakes or dry toast.
Chevington – a cow's milk cheese, made in Northumberland, England, by the Northumberland Cheese Company. It is semi-soft and mould-ripened.
Crowdie – a low-fat Scottish cream cheese. The cheese is often eaten with oatcakes, and recommended before a ceilidh as it is said to alleviate the effects of whisky-drinking. The texture is soft and crumbly, the taste slightly sour.
Fine Fettle Yorkshire – formerly named Yorkshire Feta, it's a sheep's milk cheese.
Gevrik – a Cornish goat's milk cheese.
Parlick Fell – a white cheese made from ewe's milk with a semi-soft, crumbly texture and a tangy, nutty flavour.[28]
White Stilton – a semi-soft cheese. Some varieties are produced with additives.
Stinking Bishop [29] – a washed-rind cheese produced since 1972 by Charles Martell and Son at Laurel Farm, Dymock, Gloucestershire in the South West of England. It is made from the milk of Gloucester cattle, which in 1972 consisted of only 68 Gloucester breed heifers.
Sussex Slipcote – a fresh cheese made from ewe's milk by the High Weald Dairy in West Sussex, England.
Tesyn – a soft Cornish goat's milk cheese.
Tintern – a soft, blended mature creamy Cheddar cheese flavoured with fresh chives and shallots.
Waterloo – semi-soft, off-white British cheese originating from the Duke of Wellington's estate.[30] It's made from full-fat, unpasteurised Guernsey milk.[31][32]
Whitehaven – a white cheese made from pasteurised local goat's milk in Cheshire, it's a mold-ripened cheese.[33]

What a pathetic pair of humorless jackasses.

rubato wrote:What a pathetic pair of humorless jackasses.

rubato wrote:I guess if you're not going anywhere there is plenty of time to work on new cheeses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_cheeses

List of British cheeses
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Well I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to shoot you."

"Right-Oh, sir."

(takes out a gun and shoots)

"What a *senseless* waste of human life."