[lace-chat] Twinkees

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

[lace-chat] Re Twinkies

2013-05-01 Thread Shirley Meier
Or real cream slices - two slabs of flaky pastry, each about a quarter of an inch thick with icing (frosting in the US) on the top layer, and sandwiched together with with an inch thick of real cream between the slabs. We have them too but they also have strawberry jam in with the cream, we

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Sue Duckles
Ok I give in what are S'mores??? Sue in East Yorkshire where it's cloudy. On 1 May 2013, at 01:48, Witchy Woman wrote: Enjoying the posts about Peeps and Twinkies. One of my friends buys up a bunch of Peeps after Easter and puts them away until the summer. Her favorite thing

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Jazmin
S'mores are a camping/bonfire sort of treat, at least that's how I remember them! You roast a marshmallow over a fire, until its all nice and gooey and toasty and then you sandwich it and a bit of chocolate between two graham crackers and enjoy. Sugar rush extraordinaire. :) Take care, Heather

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
On 5/1/13 9:10 AM, Sue Duckles wrote: Ok I give in what are S'mores??? A rather silly thing to do with a toasted marshmallow. When I go to that much trouble, I want to eat the marshmallow *plain*. (Not that I've toasted a marshmallow since before s'mores changed from cutesy to de

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Lesley Blackshaw
On 01/05/2013 13:42, Jazmin wrote: S'mores are a camping/bonfire sort of treat, at least that's how I remember them! You roast a marshmallow over a fire, until its all nice and gooey and toasty and then you sandwich it and a bit of chocolate between two graham crackers and enjoy. and

[lace-chat] S'mores

2013-05-01 Thread lacelady
- Original Message - From: Sue Duckles s...@duckles.co.uk Ok I give in what are S'mores??? Oh, my You *have* been deprived.G Toast a marshmallow on the end of a stick over a fire, put warm soft golden brown (burned?) marshmallow on a square of graham cracker, put half a

Re: [lace-chat] Peeps

2013-05-01 Thread Joy Beeson
On 5/1/13 11:18 AM, Lesley Blackshaw wrote: and again . graham crackers? A graham cracker is a cookie passing itself off as health food. Dr. Graham promoted the idea of faking whole-grain flour by adding wheat germ and wheat bran to unbleached flour, and invented a cracker that

[lace-chat] Twinkees

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

Re: [lace-chat] Wieners, Ding Dongs, and Shelters

2013-05-01 Thread Vicki Bradford
Hi Jean, Actually, they are not weaners but wienersas in Wien aka Vienna. They are also known as frankfurters as in from Frankfurt, or hot dogs (at least here in the US). My understanding is that these sausage-like meats originated in Vienna and/or Frankfurt (think wurst) and in the old

Re: [lace-chat] Twinkees

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