I'd like to leave this world eating fish&chips, or mac and cheese. What are fairy cakes?
Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: What are fairy cakes?
The key component of the Total Perspective Vortex. They are also tasty.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I prefer twinkletoe cakes...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Are they like a cup cake? Or a Twinkie? Or mini pound cakes?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Yes Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
Fairy cakes are cup cakes. Generally made with a just a little bit of icing on the top and two little extra bits of cake stuck into the icing, kinda like wings. At least, I always assumed they were supposed to be wings...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
...And Twinkletoe cakes are twinkies..... I get it. Now, what exactly is a crumpet?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: ...And Twinkletoe cakes are twinkies..... I get it. Now, what exactly is a crumpet?
You know, I've always wondered that myself, is it like a scone? Or an English Muffin?
This thread's giving me the munchies.
Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on :
Well I think a crumpet is kinda like a very thick Scotch or American pancake. Lovely when they're still warm from toasting and lathered in butter... mmmm...
*Goes to cook some crumpets*
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Are they crumbly, like a dinner biscuit?, or soft like cake. Hmmm, some flapjacks dont sound half bad right now. Maybe chocolate chip flapjacks.....slathered in butter and whipped cream..... *drooool*
Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on :
Soft and spongy like an American pancake except with holes in the top. They're normally 1/2 inch (supermarket cheap "economy" ones) to an inch thick (expensive supermarket "deluxe" ones).
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Ah, I must find a recipe for said english pastry patties, they sound delicious. Topped with butter or, what was that... clotted cream I believe it is called? Is there an International House of Crumpets?, just like there is an International House of Pancakes restaurant chain here? I personally think there is nothing like true English fish&chips.....
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Try an english muffin with melted butter and cinnamon, with just a smidge of honey. Delicious!
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
In England a crumpet is the thick, light, honeycomb-type-holes afair, best eaten lightly toasted and with a nice cup of tea. A Scotish crumpet is similar, but less holey and made with with lumps of fruit in it.
The main difference between pancakes and crumpets is that you cook a crumpet on one side, so you get bubbles rising, which make the sort of sponge like holes appear on the top. I can't remember if you turn a crumpet, because it's much easier to buy them ready made and stick them in the toaster.
Oh, and clotted cream is better on scones with a bit of red jam, and of course a nice cup of tea.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Try a brace of kipper for brea'fas'! That is some gooooood eatin. Or not.
Aren't crumpets just what we in America call "English muffins?" *calls his English mother* No, no they are not.
Also, I have croissants baking in the convection oven! They smell...so...GOOD....
Edit: Hey wait, I just read the article! Some poor bastard choked to death and we take it as a cue to talk about fucking crumpets!?!
.....
*sniff* I *love* this board.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Pillsbury, or REAL croissants? How 'bout a plate o' bangers 'n m Having Canadian/ Polish heritage, I am partial to lazy perogie, and Kraft Dinners Posted by Not Invented Here (Member # 1606) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: and Kraft Dinners
By this I assume you mean what the rest of the world calls Macaroni Cheese? Or have Kraft finally invented some other form of dinner?
I am going to have to buy myself some English Muffins at the weekend. It is a long time since I have had any.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
A kraft Dinner is what they call Kraft Mac&cheese in Canadia. It is even packaged differently,in a box that says kraft dinner. ANd Kraft makes Pasta salad mix here too, I could call that a dinner.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Yes, you could call that dinner. You would just be wrong, so very, very, very wrong.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I think Pasta Salad is a good breakfast, lunch dinner, snack, party food, date food, you name it, Pasta salad is a tasty fit for it.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I've tried that boxed pasta salad and almost died gagging, it's awful. Homemade stuff is good as a side dish for lunch or dinner.
*adds English muffins to grocery list directly beneath 'fridge magnet' and replaces the list loosely trapped between the door of the freezer and the fridge*
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Agreed, but my mother see's no reason to make home made, not with that boxed stuff floating qaround. I crave some good ol' Southern Fried chicken and rich creamy potato salad right now.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
Reese's Cups and one of those single serving 2 litre bottles of Pepsi.
a.k.a. Ambrosia and the Elixir of Life.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
3 musketeers and a bottle of loganberry. I don't know what that's called.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Reese's peanut butter really must be of the gods, Wiz. In cups, pieces, cereal, or just in a jar and eaten with a spoon - whatever the form, it is indeed the food of Olympus.
However - Beer and a Philly cheese steak or a Pizza Hut pizza is a better meal... Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Pizza hut... Yeah, I agree. Philly cheese steak... Even better. Stouffer's Macaroni and Cheese.... A meal of the gods.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Speaking of food, have you ever eaten something just because you know it is good for you, completely voluntarily? Did it taste like shit? Right now I am chomping on a bowl of "Granola with Blueberries and Flax", graced with a dash water...I mean skim milk. It tastes like tree bark.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
That sounds good, actually. I love eating granola and seeds and nuts and cereal grains and so on. Those fruit & nut bars that are absolutely *full* of what looks like birdseed? Really delicious.
My parents fed me that stuff when I was a baby and kid, though, so it might be a learned thing. We were part of a co-op and everything, people with large gardens or even orchards and farms bartering and gifting organically-grown products and food to each other. I didn't even taste sweetened-from-concentrate juice until I was like 10 years old, after the....DIVORCE!!!
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Those All-Bran bars are really good. Seriously!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I prefer Honey Bunches of Oats. Healthy, but tasty at the same time.
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
quote: crum�pet [kruhm-pit] Pronunciation Key -
–noun Chiefly British. 1. a round soft unsweetened bread resembling a muffin, cooked on a griddle or the like, and often toasted. 2. British Slang. a sexually attractive woman.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I like eating marshmelons and drinking ginger ale.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mars Needs Women: I like eating marshmelons and drinking ginger ale.
What the high holy hell is a marshmelon? I'd assume you meant marshmallow but...that's a hell of a typo Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :
He's been watching too much ST:V.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Dan, how could you have missed that. Even I GOT IT! Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
I love you guys Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yay! I'm loved and accepted! Yay!
Anyone ever had Vegimite? I think there are some Aussies out there that could elaborate.. DOes it taste good? I've always wanted to try some. I have always thought that it was like Apple Butter, but I think I'm wrong.
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
Eh. More like Yeast Butter. Eurgh.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Vegemite is hands-down, no-bullshit, the Most Vile Substance Known To Mankind.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
What is Yeast butter? Is vegimite that bad? Yet from what I gather, in Austrailia it is just like PB&J over here. Speaking of geography, I just had an arguement with someone about whether Europe is a continent or a country. Errrg...
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: Vegemite is hands-down, no-bullshit, the Most Vile Substance Known To Mankind.
I thought that honor was owned by Ritten?
Ever had to chew a Guaifen tablet? Imagine eating a mixture of aluminum, chalk, & sulpher. (Throat was too constricted to swallow the $&*()@#%_@ horse tablet for a few days and I had to chew them up to wash them down)
Posted by HopefulNebula (Member # 1933) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: What is Yeast butter? Is vegimite that bad?
Yes it is.
Yeast butter doesn't exist. If it did, it wouldn't taste as bad. You asked if it was like apple butter...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Must be some joke I'm overlooking...
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I really like Nutella. You can get it in the states now; I saw it in a store a few years ago, but when I was a kid you couldn't. Thank God for British family members ) (My aunt sent me some Aero bars! They should be here next week! *nom nom*)
Well I *still* don't get the marshmelon thing. I freely admit my thickitude and so forth...I remember the campfire scene from ST:V but not anything to do with marshMELONS...
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
SPOCK: I ampreparing to toast a marshmelon.
Nuttella is good. Aero bars are fantastic. A pure choco-gasm. I'd wait in line at the Peace Bridge for hours just to get into Canada and get some of those. THe mint is the best. There are so many good chocolates and candies that you cant get here, which sucks. I only get these delicacies once a year though, during my family vacation to ontario.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"Must be some joke I'm overlooking..."
You asked if it was like apple butter. She said it was more like "yeast butter". Which, theoretically, would be like apple butter, but made out of yeast instead of apples.
It's called an analogy.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sean: I only get these delicacies once a year though, during my family vacation to ontario.
You live in Buffalo...& your family vacations..in Ontario.
Filled with the Romany wanderlust I see your clan is.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
My dad's family has been going to that particular vacationing lodge for nearly 40 years. Once we got a boat, my dad decided that it would be a good idea to continue that tradition. I'm not complaining. The food is good, the water warm, and the waitresses are beautiful. And all around my age. Even better, you can get aero bars every where! The whole trip costs on average a little over $1000, so it fits in with my family's cheap nature.
And as for that Romany Wanderlust, the farthest my family has ever ventured from home on a vacation is to Philidelphia to visit relitives.
I will be going to New York on a school trip next month, and they will drive to Phili to visit the same realitives, and then drive up to NYC together to see my choir perform @ Lincoln Center. That is about as exiting as it gets.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Yeah, see...that's what we in IntarwebzLand refer to as sarcasm grandiosa.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Either way, my life is still pretty mundane by the standards of everyone I know.
Posted by Ritten (Member # 417) on :
Shik, he's kind of short, need to aim a little lower. Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Me? Short? Very few places in the world is 5'10" considered short for a 15 year old. Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
Looking shorter by the second
While you're in Philly, get a cheesesteak. They're so...good....when you get them from there. Also from places in NJ.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
"You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is." Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I am not going to philly. Love to though. Last time I went I was 7 or eight. I am going to NYC with the Chorus and Band, while my family gets to enjoy themselves in Philly. ANd Philly CHeesesteaks are delicious. As are the hot pretzels you can get in the Philly Zoo.
I wish I would shrink. I hate having my parents look up at me while they yell at me.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Hit the Museum of Sex. It's faboo. Also, there's this great little Chinese bakery on...St.James & Pell, I think.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
I will go where the tours go, and I don't think that includes the museum of sex, as interesting as it may sound. I doubt there will be much time for tours, as our conductor will probably work us sensless so that we actually make good on our "best Choir in the state" awards. THe chinese bakery sounds good though.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
Ugh. Forced tours.
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
Vegemite is the evil Austrailian rip off of the one true god, Marmite.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
And what may I ask, is Marmite? The favorite snack of Mermaid children everywhere?
Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on :
It is yeasty goodness. On toast!
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
What is Marmite? Impertinant devil!
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
If we're talking about uses for toast, I think that Cinnimon &Toast is nice, so is Shit on a Shingle.
Posted by OverRon (Member # 2036) on :
Ewww cinnamon and toast, when I worked in America, I had to make 1000's of slices of that crap. Toast in sugary cinnamony goop
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I rather like that sugary goop, OverRon
I like eggy in a basket, speaking of toast. Or egg in a hole or whatever you call it.
Posted by Sean (Member # 2010) on :
Yeast Butter?
Posted by The Ginger Beacon (Member # 1585) on :
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