Re: OT: Worcestershire sauce

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Roger Mills wrote:

> Christophe wrote:
> >Not at all! Peanut butter is completely unknown in France for instance.
>
> Well, nothing surprises one about the French :-))  OTOH you/they have pain
> (au?) chocolat-- bread and butter with choc. sprinkles.  Completely unheard
> of in the US. (Oddly, chocolate sprinkles were included in "western" style
> breakfasts in Indonesia, so I suppose they got that from the Dutch.)
Really? I presume you get fairy bread* in the US? Is it such a jump from
one to the other? Very popular children's party food, along with the choc.
hail ones. (Though I guess maybe it's right to be surprising because I
think we used to call bread with chocolate hail, as we call it, by some
Dutch name which I've since forgotten, or perhaps mum described it as
Dutch or something.)

*Bread+butter/marge+hundreds and thousands, generally cut in triangles.
Neither dictionary.com nor m-w.com have a definition of hundreds and
thousands, and I can't really either, so I turn to the Macquarie which
describes them as:
        hundreds and thousands
            plural noun very small, brightly coloured sugary balls, used in
            decorating cakes, sweets etc.
And wonder what they're called in America. (You can also get softer,
cylindrical ones (abt 5 mm long and very thin), which have more
muted/pastel colors and are sold under a different name but called the
100s&1000s.)

> > And even in the Netherlands it's not that popular. Most supermarkets sell
> one brand of peanut butter only...
Oma makes these really nice peanut butter biscuits (very thin and very
sweet), though she's lived here long enough that she probably got the
recipe here.

> Oddly, again, in Indonesia I was amazed to discover two or three brands of
> PB (called of course pindakas, Du. pindakaas), and very good they were.  I
> think it is actually used in some curries.
>
> >Not all people have bad taste you know. ;)))))))
>
> Then there are the _Secret Peanut Butter Eaters_-- who pooh-pooh and disdain
> the stuff in public but.... I once had such a person for a room-mate:  it
> seemed that every time I got a midnight PB urge, the jar would be
> mysteriously empty.
>
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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still
be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
                -- Snoopy

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