More damning lies

[meridian]

Edit to correct myself: USA doesn’t recognise PGIs anyway, so if they wanted to make their own version of a cold pork pie they’d be doing it already by now.

Oh look, they already are:

1 lb. Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
| Parker's

[WTFH]

It's a bit desperate when Boris's industrial strategy focuses on a single pork pie manufacturer exporting a tiny amount of pies.

The difference is between “exporting” and “selling”

A manufacturer might export to one or two expats/immigrants living in that country, but they are not selling through retail in the country.

It’s all the semantics of how to spin a lie into truth as perfected by Johnson, Gove, a big red bus, et al.

[meridian]

The interesting facet about all of this isn’t whether or not Bozo lied, but more the sheer amount of discussion that a single product generates.

If we want the USA to open up their markets to pork pies, then what do they want us to open up in return? What is the cost / benefit of what we’re opening up, compared to the cost / benefit of gaining access for this product into their market?

Multiply this analysis across every other good, and across services, and it becomes easier to understand why trade deals take years and are not done quickly.

Doing a “quick” trade deal might be ideal politically, but without the analysis done for each product and each giveaway to gain access, the U.K. risks undervaluing itself to gain fewer benefits.

[Zigenare]

If the only thing you’re triggered about is an ‘e’ in whiskey, better put the foot down on your outrage bus.

Scotch whisky - Wikipedia

Don't confuse "triggered" with someone illustrating your ignorance - again. Getting to be quite a common occurrence, isn't it?

[meridian]

Don't confuse "triggered" with someone illustrating your ignorance - again. Getting to be quite a common occurrence, isn't it?

Don’t go overboard with your outrage there.

It’s a simple spelling mistake of a word that is spelled differently but still means pretty much the same thing. Just to outrage you even more, I also frequently use American spellings (mainly because I deal with an international clientele - they also care less).

How about engaging on the actual point, instead of simply popping in to be a grammar Nazi? Is the point too difficult for you?

[Zigenare]

Don’t go overboard with your outrage there.

It’s a simple spelling mistake of a word that is spelled differently but still means pretty much the same thing. Just to outrage you even more, I also frequently use American spellings (mainly because I deal with an international clientele - they also care less).

How about engaging on the actual point, instead of simply popping in to be a grammar Nazi? Is the point too difficult for you?

The point is as follows, the Scots produce "Whisky". The Irish produce "Whiskey". And you spout copious amounts of tulipe.

Are you going to compound your mistake further by suggesting that they are the same thing?

[darmstadt]

The point is as follows, the Scots produce "Whisky". The Irish produce "Whiskey". And you spout copious amounts of tulipe.

Are you going to compound your mistake further by suggesting that they are the same thing?

So tell us the difference then oh wise one? What do the Japanese and Indians produce, Whiskiy and Wiskie?

This difference in the spelling comes from the translations of the word from the Scottish and Irish Gaelic forms.

[Zigenare]

So tell us the difference then oh wise one? What do the Japanese and Indians produce, Whiskiy and Wiskie?

tulip and tulipe.

Hth.

[WTFH]

So tell us the difference then oh wise one? What do the Japanese and Indians produce, Whiskiy and Wiskie?

Suntory (the people behind Chita, Hibiki and Yamazaki) spell it Whisky. Yamazaki 18 is one of the finest whiskies I have ever tasted.
Nikka also spell theirs the Scottish way.

USA choose the Irish spelling.

[darmstadt]

Well, Scotland and Ireland aren't doing too well at the moment, even Germany and Denmark won an award:

World Whiskies Awards 2019 - Winners