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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Sorry @Obelixx , l have to disagree   :).
    I suspect that this time next year @wild edges will be a millionaire...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's better in Belgium @wild edges, honest, especially the croissants and other Viennoiseries.

    If I do go for something sweet it's likely to be something outrageous and home made like sticky toffee pudding or a chocolate torte or a bread and butter pudding made with brioche or an Eton Mess or a pav.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Oh don't Obelixx, I'm drooling at the thought.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Obelixx said:
    No, sorry, but doughnuts and Arctic roll are both an abomination!
    That's fine ... all the more for us then eh @wild edges 🍩🍦  (mind you I dislike those ring donuts ... I like proper jammy doughnuts, or the ones with stewed apple inside)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Oh no - a good ring doughnut is a joy.
    We have a very good bakery about a mile or so away. They have the best ones. Not had one in years though.
    I wouldn't turn down a jammy one though. 
    Although I have a sweet tooth, there's very few desserts I like. Sticky toffee pudding makes me feel ill. I couldn't even eat a spoonful. I love a sharp lemon dessert - meringue pie [but only if there's really sharp lemon] lemon tart etc.

    I remember Arctic Roll being thought of as the height of sophistication, and of course - it was to save the 'housewife' making a dessert herself  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Ooh yes, love a proper lemony tart too - neat, no meringue.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I don't think I've ever had an Arctic Roll ........... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Usually nasty fake sponge cake round inferior ice cream made with palm oil.   What's to like?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sounds like a 'guilty pleasure' like Ma and her Walnut Whips  :D

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Obelixx said:
    No, sorry, but doughnuts and Arctic roll are both an abomination!
    That's fine ... all the more for us then eh @wild edges 🍩🍦  (mind you I dislike those ring donuts ... I like proper jammy doughnuts, or the ones with stewed apple inside)
    Jammy ones are fine. Apple ones I like. Vanilla ones I can't deal with. They look like someone sneezed in the bakery [green faced emoji]. I'm sure they taste alright but I can't quite get that far. Ring doughnuts are particularly good with a little cinnamon. I'd go for a cinnamon 'tear and share' if given the run of the cake stand though. And then not share it.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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