They're doing it backwards; walking up the down slide.

River ,'Ariel'


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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Zenkitty - Mar 02, 2015 6:03:39 pm PST #21115 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Thanks, all! I'm off to bed now (in the bedroom overlooking MY pine trees, muahaha).

Suddenly I'm more interested in finishing the two rooms that still haven't been painted. Hm.


Steph L. - Mar 02, 2015 6:06:47 pm PST #21116 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

There are cookies called spritz cookies, a sugar type cookie generally extruded from a device that makes shapes.

Oh yeah, my mom always made those at Christmas! I just remembered. She called the device a "cookie press."


amych - Mar 02, 2015 6:13:31 pm PST #21117 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

She called them spritzles but I think she made that up.

If she made it up, so did all my elderly german ladies.


sarameg - Mar 02, 2015 6:20:09 pm PST #21118 of 30000

Swedish variation on it, I guess. But hers were definitely coconut. Which strikes me odd.


meara - Mar 02, 2015 6:34:14 pm PST #21119 of 30000

Why is coconut odd?

I do notice that the Brits seem to (noticeably in the baking show, but I've seen others) all about passion fruit, which is something I feel you never see in the US.


sarameg - Mar 02, 2015 6:39:47 pm PST #21120 of 30000

Immigrant swedes and coconut in midcentury? My grandma was not normally adventurous with food. She boiled veggies to death. And lutefisk.


DebetEsse - Mar 02, 2015 6:46:23 pm PST #21121 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Our family spritz cookie recipe features almond extract...and not a whole lot else of note.


Connie Neil - Mar 02, 2015 6:51:02 pm PST #21122 of 30000
brillig

(noticeably in the baking show

The finale of which just finished airing here! Yay, Nancy !


Hil R. - Mar 02, 2015 7:15:37 pm PST #21123 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh yeah, my mom always made those at Christmas! I just remembered. She called the device a "cookie press."

I have a cookie press. I bought it and then used it once, and it's been sitting on the top shelf of my cupboard ever since.


DebetEsse - Mar 02, 2015 7:24:54 pm PST #21124 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

The 21st century fondue pot