Cornflour
My mother was a traditional English cook, so when she made a sauce, she didn’t use flour. She used cornflour. Often it was Brown and Polson. As it was gluten-free, this was actually good for me and probably helps to prove the theory I have that good proper cooking is actually better for you. Flour is a cheap way of putting bulk into ready made and processed food.
There has been a discussion on the UK-Coeliac group about cornflour and corn in general.
This illustrates the differences between English all over the world.
Farmers in the UK and probably a lot of other places, use corn as a general term for any cereal, including wheat and barley. They call maize, maize. Whereas in the US, maize is corn.
All confusing. Truly we’re all dvided by a common language.
To make matters worse, according Wikipedia, cornflour in Australia is made from wheat. The article also talks about cornstarch, the name used for cornflour in the US.
It all makes me, want to do more cooking from scratch.
The Anonymous Widower 
Did you know that this entry appears at another site, verbatim? It’s address is here:
http://liliveev.com/page/3
I know this because this site is also copying my stuff.
Comment by Arsen Darnay | September 14, 2009 |
I’ve found this before. That makes three of my pages today that they’ve copied today alone. Not quite sure what they’re upto, but I suspect it’s to do with spam, generating traffic for their web site or some criminal activity.
You won’t stop it, but what I think you should do, is always put a link in the text of your blog to another topic in the blog. That way you may actually generate traffic. I’m on WordPress and I can spot these type of people because it shows I’ve been referred.
As to stopping them, I doubt whether you’d be able to and any effort put in will be wasted. So just look at the possibility that they might be getting you more traffic.
After all there are many more important things in life!
Comment by AnonW | September 14, 2009 |
I’d come to the same conclusions that you state in your reply–for which I’m grateful, by the way. The initial shock is great. I’m used to the spamming; the wholesale copying, without attribution, was something else. But, as you say, more important things to do in life…
Comment by Arsen Darnay | September 14, 2009 |
I think actually they don’t get any benefit, as Google knows the sort of companies they are and drops them down the list. Some of my posts rate very highly in Google and that surprises me given the few numbers of hits they get.
I’ve had four referrals from his blog today already and it is my top post at the moment. Which is surprisingly!
Comment by AnonW | September 14, 2009 |
Yeah, about four of my posts appear here as well. What the hell, write you own damn work! Sheesh.
I’ll be thinking about liking back to my own pages from now on…
Comment by lucasharper | September 15, 2009 |
I think we keep cool on all this. The only problem is that if Google and the others assume we are part of it. Perhaps what we should do is write a few posts about it and link to each other. Obviously, we don’t link to the idiots.
I’ll write one today. I just have.
Comment by AnonW | September 16, 2009 |
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Notice that you get ping-backs if you put a link to another of your posts in the post that is copied. So you can at least know how often it happens.
It’s this Finance Blog that seems to copy me most. Why? The blog isn’t even finished.
Comment by AnonW | September 26, 2009 |