IIRC from a Jeremy Clarkson programme the Dutch spend their entire summer holidays living in caravans with choco-sprinkles on everything.
It may not have been a completely unbiased representation.
Owain
How have the mighty fallen? OT.
Jun 24, 2006
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Oh that's an old one, I prefer white pepper. It's almost the only time I use white pepper.
Mary
What's wrong with them. I /like/ beetroot sandwiches, either on its own or with cheese.
Me too. I didn't know they were unusual.
Mary
As I detest beetroot, the thought of them in sandwiches ...........................yuck! Graham
Why do they bother with the bread?
Alan
You have a long way to go to catch up with me!
Alan
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:03:51 +0100, Alan Holmes wrote (in article ):
How else could they dip it in their coffee?
Because they can't get Pot Noodles?
Owain
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Stops it melting all over your hands. On the beach you take the bar of chocolate out of the coolbag, snap a bit of and shove it into the bread. You can now eat it at a reasonable pace without it melting all over your fingers.
Try mashing a couple of bananas then mixing in half a tin of condensed milk. Spread thickly on bread.
"Alan Holmes" typed
To 'stretch' the chocolate, like a pie crust may stretch meat.
I think you'll find a pair of Parker retractors will do a better job of stretching meat.
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I'd never have thought of using a couple of ballpens to do that with.
Excuse me, I feel si ....
So do I, but often the beetroot doesn't get as far as the bread and butter!
But it HAS to be pickled!
Alan
Who on earth holds chocolate in their fingers long enough for it to melt, mine goes straight into my mouth!
Alan
Make sure you use the chrome plated ones.
Did she introduce the other bread sprinkles (maybe more Dutch than Flemish) such as Gestampte Muisjes (Stamped on little mice),
A confection made to resemble mouse feaces !
And Rose en Witte Muisjes
Ditto but coloured pink and white, specially for christenings !
Both flavoured with aniseed.
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your Gran might not have known about was Hopjesvla. A mousse type pudding with a curiously familiar flavour you can't quite identify.
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out Hopjes is a haunting coffee/caramel candy (boiled sweet) . The flavour of which was used a lot to flavour ice lollies in the UK in the '60s when I was at school. None of us knew what it was or was supposed to be that we were eating..
DG
Derek ^ typed
No.
I had (Raadmakkers sp) Hopjes as sweets, which I loved...
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