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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?
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VintageFeline wrote: »
They're a cake. A really really delicious cake. This link is a good description, I did not know M&S did them, even for a while (this blog is dated 2013, I shall still look next time I'm in one just in case though!).
http://www.foodstufffinds.co.uk/2013/01/4-scottish-snowballs-marks-specncer-by.html
OMG! I think that must be the thing that us consarned murrikans corrupted into that fiber-flocked, elastic-foam-coated, denatured-shaving-cream-filled atrocity, the Hostess Sno Ball.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sno_Balls
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OMG! I think that must be the thing that us consarned murrikans corrupted into that fiber-flocked, elastic-foam-coated, denatured-shaving-cream-filled atrocity, the Hostess Sno Ball.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sno_Balls
Please tell your cake culture I'm sorry.
Oh! Oh 'murica. Maybe I'll try one next time I'm over. If for no other reason than to feel comforted by our largely good quality cake culture. Except anything covered in marzipan. That you can have to do what you want with.2 -
VintageFeline wrote: »
Oh! Oh 'murica. Maybe I'll try one next time I'm over. If for no other reason than to feel comforted by our largely good quality cake culture. Except anything covered in marzipan. That you can have to do what you want with.
Too bad, because I have the nicest recipe for a fresh red raspberry almond cake with marzipan in it. Guess I'll have to eat the whole thing myself.
Oh, and: If you can find a Sno Ball, don't eat it. Seriously. Brought to you by the same people who made Twinkies. You've been warned.6 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »
Stop teasing us, yogurt is soooooooo good! I totally had one this morning. I get so much joy from thinking about, discussing, and looking at pics of yogurt!!!!
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Too bad, because I have the nicest recipe for a fresh red raspberry almond cake with marzipan in it. Guess I'll have to eat the whole thing myself.
Oh, and: If you can find a Sno Ball, don't eat it. Seriously. Brought to you by the same people who made Twinkies. You've been warned.
In my final year of primary school I went on a trip to Amsterdam, one of the outings whilst there was to a marzipan factory. We got to taste it fresh off the..whatever it comes fresh of of. Only time I found it vaguely acceptable. But it's one of the very few things I don't eat. I'm sorry about your cake, I'm sure it's delicious to everyone else.0 -
It's a little early but can I post the cake I make once-a-year?
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Bry_Lander wrote: »
Stop teasing us, yogurt is soooooooo good! I totally had one this morning. I get so much joy from thinking about, discussing, and looking at pics of yogurt!!!!
What aspect of yogurt do you wish to discuss? I keep meaning to try making it myself.2 -
I am shocked and appalled that we have gotten this far in the cake debate without talking about the value of the cake sandwich.18
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It's a little early but can I post the cake I make once-a-year?
Yule log is one of my favourites. My prior not yet obese but definitely nearly self once bought one that was in the reduced section of one of our upmarket supermarkets. I didn't finish it (I live alone) but I gave it a damn good shot!6 -
VintageFeline wrote: »
Yule log is one of my favourites. My prior not yet obese but definitely nearly self once bought one that was in the reduced section of one of our upmarket supermarkets. I didn't finish it (I live alone) but I gave it a damn good shot!
I have mad a couple of variations (always with a chocolate sponge cake) and my family had agreed that the original is the best: chocolate sponge cake roll with mocha filling and chocolate frosting. I have done it with vanilla filling and even ice cream filling but the mocha is best.
Which reminds me . . . chocolate ice cream cake roll! Yummy and a favorite treat as a kid.2 -
The thing with cake, however, is that just the way it looks allows for discussion.
I happen to like to make pies for major holidays, and strawberry-rhubarb is my usual for Easter. Something like this:
But Easter provides for some of the most delightful cake fails and just plain horrifying cakes. I quite like this one, but they are endless:
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That guy doesn't come in here. We like it that way.sunfastrose wrote: »I am shocked and appalled that we have gotten this far in the cake debate without talking about the value of the cake sandwich.
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My unpopular opinion is the September is too *kitten* early for pumpkin spice anything.8
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My unpopular opinion is the September is too *kitten* early for pumpkin spice anything.
All the Christmas chocolate was out at the supermarket on Monday. I took an incredulous photo. We haven't even had Halloween yet people!
Well if you're Canadian, Thanksgiving is coming up very soon. And pumpkin pie. My best friend made one especially for me last year because she wasn't hosting anything as she usually does (and hasn't for three years while she retrained as a midwife, I'm not too bitter about it). So I can let the pumpkin spice slide.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »The thing with cake, however, is that just the way it looks allows for discussion.
I happen to like to make pies for major holidays, and strawberry-rhubarb is my usual for Easter. Something like this:
But Easter provides for some of the most delightful cake fails and just plain horrifying cakes. I quite like this one, but they are endless:
Would still eat. Sans 3 inch thick icing if the cake is good underneath. Something endearing about him actually.0 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »
Stop teasing us, yogurt is soooooooo good! I totally had one this morning. I get so much joy from thinking about, discussing, and looking at pics of yogurt!!!!
I like adding a little protein powder to greek yogurt to make it even thicker. YUM! don't need ice cream..0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »
All the Christmas chocolate was out at the supermarket on Monday. I took an incredulous photo. We haven't even had Halloween yet people!
Well if you're Canadian, Thanksgiving is coming up very soon. And pumpkin pie. My best friend made one especially for me last year because she wasn't hosting anything as she usually does (and hasn't for three years while she retrained as a midwife, I'm not too bitter about it). So I can let the pumpkin spice slide.
We don't have Thanksgiving, and Halloween isn't big here, so ALL the Christmas stuff went up in shops this week. I can now go buy a Christmas tree, fruit mince pies, plum puddings, tinsel, decorations, dancing f'ing reindeer... IT'S MID-SEPTEMBER!!!!
Ugh.3 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »
What aspect of yogurt do you wish to discuss? I keep meaning to try making it myself.
Yoghurt culture!! Defs try making your own. I did for awhile, but then a low fat Greek yoghurt came out here that was exactly the same, less fuss, and not that much more expensive. It seems to have gone up in price when they rebranded it a couple of months ago though (from Greek yoghurt to Protein +, cos obviously appealing to a particular market). I'm considering buying a second yoghurt maker and starting to make my own again (I go through so much that a single batch, once the whey is drained off, only lasts a couple of days, and I don't want to be making yoghurt every few days).3 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »
Snipped the other picture for space.
But Easter provides for some of the most delightful cake fails and just plain horrifying cakes. I quite like this one, but they are endless:
That poor Easter bunny looks like he's trying to poop one of his eggs out.
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Nony_Mouse wrote: »
Yoghurt culture!! Defs try making your own. I did for awhile, but then a low fat Greek yoghurt came out here that was exactly the same, less fuss, and not that much more expensive. It seems to have gone up in price when they rebranded it a couple of months ago though (from Greek yoghurt to Protein +, cos obviously appealing to a particular market). I'm considering buying a second yoghurt maker and starting to make my own again (I go through so much that a single batch, once the whey is drained off, only lasts a couple of days, and I don't want to be making yoghurt every few days).
Yoghurt culture.
I hope that was an intended pun! 
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Yep, quite deliberate.2 -
I was wondering which culture celebrates with an Easter Donkey. 6 -
Alatariel75 wrote: »
We don't have Thanksgiving, and Halloween isn't big here, so ALL the Christmas stuff went up in shops this week. I can now go buy a Christmas tree, fruit mince pies, plum puddings, tinsel, decorations, dancing f'ing reindeer... IT'S MID-SEPTEMBER!!!!
Ugh.
Halloween isn't big here either which I guess is why they whack out the Christmas stuff early. There will be mince pies and puddings etc too, I just didn't stop to look.
And I should have clarified, I'm not Canadian, my friend is and she lives here in the UK!0 -
I think it's maybe supposed to be a lamb with giant teeth wearing bunny ears.
Which doesn't answer the real question, why oh why.3 -
Here's a disturbing Easter veggie snack, should one try to change cake culture:
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lemurcat12 wrote: »
I think it's maybe supposed to be a lamb with giant teeth wearing bunny ears.
Which doesn't answer the real question, why oh why.
Totes a lamb with bunny ears.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Here's a disturbing Easter veggie snack, should one try to change cake culture:
I am weirdly drawn to that bunny.....
That said, the fact I would eat just about everything in this thread so far would indicate my "nope" food threshold is low. I'm not saying I'd like it all but I'd give it a go.6 -
annaskiski wrote: »
I like adding a little protein powder to greek yogurt to make it even thicker. YUM! don't need ice cream..
I put a half scoop of cookies and cream protein powder in my fat free Greek yougurt, delish! I will have to snap a pic of it tomorrow morning, along with a partially eaten Quest bar, a bowl of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, and a steaming cup of black coffee!2 -
Bry_Lander wrote: »
I put a half scoop of cookies and cream protein powder in my fat free Greek yougurt, delish! I will have to snap a pic of it tomorrow morning, along with a partially eaten Quest bar, a bowl of maple and brown sugar oatmeal, and a steaming cup of black coffee!
THAT'S IT, NOW I'M CALLING YOGURT CULTURE. THIS IS CAUSING ALL THE OBESITIES!!!
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