Is an Aussie Crunchie like a Canadian Crunchie?
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Elena - Apr 04, 2003 12:28:35 am PST #3143 of 9843
Thanks for all the fish.
Trudy Booth - Apr 04, 2003 12:29:48 am PST #3144 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
What's a violet crumble?
I had violet pastilles as a little girl and I ADORED them. They lived in a little tin in my night stand and I'd only have one on really crappy days in order to cheer myself up.
billytea - Apr 04, 2003 12:32:39 am PST #3145 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Is an Aussie Crunchie like a Canadian Crunchie?
I think so. Chocolate-covered honeycomb? (I found them in Carmel, of all places.)
A violet crumble is notionally similar, but the honeycomb has greater structural integrity, and is therefore more likely to send shards flying across the room if you bite down vigorously.
Angus G - Apr 04, 2003 12:32:53 am PST #3146 of 9843
Roguish Laird
Yes, Crunchies are better and they used to have fantastically camp advertising too. Remember the ads where someone would take one bite of a Crunchie and suddenly a film of them doing something fun like rollerskating or disco dancing or windsurfing would be superimposed over the space where their t-shirt was? (The implication being that eating a Crunchie transports you mentally to your early 80s leisure activity of preference.)
billytea - Apr 04, 2003 12:36:03 am PST #3147 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yes, Cruchies are better and they used to have fantastically camp advertising too. Remember the ads where someone would take one bite of a Crunchie and suddenly a film of them doing something fun like rollerskating or disco dancing or windsurfing would be superimposed over the space where their t-shirt was? (The implication being that eating a Crunchie transports you mentally to your early 80s leisure activity of choice.)
Yeah, I remember those. (Always liked the ridiculously simple, but quite enthusiastic "CRUNCHIE!" vocalisation.) All I remember of violet crumble's advertising was them taking egregious liberties with Australian colonial history.
moonlit - Apr 04, 2003 12:39:41 am PST #3148 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell
For those who feel up to a little Aussie humour,
Q. When does Saddam Hussein have his dinner
A. When Tariq Aziz
Q. Have you heard about the new Iraqi air force exercise program?
A. Each morning you raise your hands above your head, and leave them there.
Q. What's the five-day forecast for Baghdad?
A. Two days.
Q. What do Miss Muffet and Saddam Hussein have in common?
A. They both have Kurds in their way.
Q. What is the best Iraqi job?
A. Foreign ambassador.
Q. Did you hear that it is twice as easy to train Iraqi fighter pilots?
A. You only have to teach them to take off.
Q. What is the Iraqi air force motto?
A. I came, I saw, Iran.
Q. Why does the Iraqi navy have glass bottom boats?
A. So they can see their air force.
Q. How do you play Iraqi bingo?
A. B-52 ... F-16 ... B-2
Q. What is Iraq's national bird?
A. Duck.
Q. What do Saddam Hussein and General Custer have in common?
A. They both want to know where the hell those Tomahawks are coming from!
For sale on Ebay: French Army rifle - Never shot. Dropped once
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." - Jacques Chirac,
"As far as France is concerned, you're right." - Rush Limbaugh
Billytea, Not sure if these will help with your homesickness!
Trudy Booth - Apr 04, 2003 12:39:41 am PST #3149 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So they don't taste like violets?
billytea - Apr 04, 2003 12:44:13 am PST #3150 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Billytea, Not sure if these will help with your homesickness!
Hee. Not yet, but I've almost finished another study unit and then sweet oblivion will do wonders.
So they don't taste like violets?
Nah. Their packaging is predominantly violet. I don't think there's any more profound connection.
Trudy Booth - Apr 04, 2003 12:47:32 am PST #3151 of 9843
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
t Trudy throws up her hands in disgust
Elena - Apr 04, 2003 12:49:10 am PST #3152 of 9843
Thanks for all the fish.
Chocolate-covered honeycomb?
By honeycomb do you mean sponge toffee? Because, then, yeah. Side note - I can make sponge toffee. It contains corn syrup and baking soda. And it's yummy.