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2013-05-01 Thread Jean Nathan
Being diabetic, it's fortunate that I'm not that keen on sweet stuff. I enjoted seeing the nurse squirm at my last check-up when we discussed diet and I told her that my diet is well-controlled - I eat a cream doughnut with a pill! Took her a few seonds to realise I wasnlt serious. Jean in

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2013-05-01 Thread Jean Nathan
So now what's Ding Dongs? My, you do have some strange food. I do know what a weaner is - we had a TV programme laughing at US public information films for teenagers. One was going for a weaner roast on the beach so they didn't get up to any mischief! I gather is some kind of sausage. Our

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2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
On 5/1/13 2:19 PM, Jean Nathan wrote: Now you can laugh at us. I wouldn't dare -- you might dig up one of *our* bomb-shelter designs. I don't recall any details, but I do recall my parents' derision -- fall-out shelter designs claimed to be good for two weeks of nuclear war, but none

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2013-04-30 Thread Jean Nathan
When you say filled with cream, do you mean real dairy cream made from real milk or that yuckie, synthetic, tasteless white stuff that confectioners misname cream. I love cream (real cream) and jam (jelly to those in the US) filled long doughnuts (donuts in the US). Making my mouth water just

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2013-04-30 Thread Adele Shaak
No, no, it's the yucky stuff. I have to admit I **loved** that white stuff when I was a teenager. It was just the right fluffiness, just the right amount of artificial flavouring and just the right amount of sugar. A perfect foodstuff! Real dairy cream would spoil, of course, and you'd lose the

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2013-04-30 Thread Jean Nathan
If it's that foul synthetic cream then, I wouldn't like them at all. Fresh cream or no cream for me. Don't like marshmallows either. Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat y...@address.here. For help, write to