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24 minutes ago, luv2fly said:

I and my wife love TimTams.  Best COOKIE on the planet! :nyah:

nice try!

they are australian. you do not get to define them!

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I would never use tomate sauce with French Fries or on a burger nor would I put ketchup on pasta or pizza. Two totally different things.

Tomato sauce... What a ridiculous name for a condiment... Tomato sauce belongs on pizza. What kind of third world country is Australia????

is ketchup even english? as i have said before, there are two types of people in the world. australians, and those who want to be (and if i may add a little local dig, two types of aussies -

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no idea.

Found it - Wikipedia quote:

On April 4, 1991, former U.S. Senator Henry John Heinz III, the third-generation successor to the Heinz fortune, and six other people were killed when a Bell 412 helicopter and a Piper Aerostar with Heinz aboard collided in mid-air above Merion Elementary School in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania.[22] His fortune passed on to his wife, Teresa Heinz.
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44 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

they are australian. you do not get to define them!

Ok Ken, I will let you have that one.  They are quite good.  Not sure what it is but I just cant have one or five or ten......:drool:

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8 minutes ago, luv2fly said:

Ok Ken, I will let you have that one.  They are quite good.  Not sure what it is but I just cant have one or five or ten......:drool:

to be honest, don't care what they are called. great bikkies. good straight from the freezer as well.

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1 hour ago, Lotusguy said:


Found it - Wikipedia quote:

On April 4, 1991, former U.S. Senator Henry John Heinz III, the third-generation successor to the Heinz fortune, and six other people were killed when a Bell 412 helicopter and a Piper Aerostar with Heinz aboard collided in mid-air above Merion Elementary School in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania.[22] His fortune passed on to his wife, Teresa Heinz.

She is married to former secretary of state John Kerry, FWIW

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2 hours ago, Lotusguy said:


Big fan of Andechser here. And any of the Bavarian or Swabian Hefeweizen.

Can't stand anything IPA.

Augustiner Edelstoff.  Best lager in Munich (and possibly Bavaria).  

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Augustiner Edelstoff.  Best lager in Munich (and possibly Bavaria).  

I raise you Ayinger :)
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32 minutes ago, Lotusguy said:


I raise you Ayinger :)

Not a great fan of Weissbier, sorry.  But the village is always worth a trip!

What about a Tegernseer Blauer Page?  

I am also a big fan of a local Munich brewery: Giesinger.  Their Sternhagel and WInterbock are exceptional, IMNSHO.  

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5 hours ago, prodigy said:

My wife grabbed these today. She said she loved them when she did a 3 month internship in kairns many years ago. Figured this would be a good place to post. Biscuits vs cookies! Battle commence. 1ed886ade9f2d53bd326e53a31d4ac37.jpg

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A friend in Florida asks me to send her Tims Tams from Australia every so often. She says they taste different, plus you don't get all the different varieties or special releases.

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2 hours ago, JamesKPolkEsq said:

Is this true? Can you get in legal trouble for calling it an ANZAC cookie?

Small aside: In AZ, are homemade chocolate chip cookies referred to as biscuits? 

first, you get shot for calling them cookies. biscuits only.

ANZAC is the term for aussie and kiwi military forces and can't be used without permission from the govt. so yes, definitely. it is a big deal in Australia.

i'd guess that if someone started making "Marine" kettles, for example, some may not take it well.

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American Cookie = British/Australian Biscuit

American Biscuit = British/Australian Scone

British/Australian Cookie (softer and larger than a biscuit) =  American Cookie

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13 hours ago, Lotusguy said:


Big fan of Andechser here. And any of the Bavarian or Swabian Hefeweizen.

Can't stand anything IPA.

Same here. And Kloster Andechs is well worth a visit.

Nothing like a late breakfast of Weißwurst, Bretzln and a good Andechser beer before noon ....
.................. of course with sweet brown MUSTARD :)

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On 06/01/2018 at 8:33 PM, OB1 said:

Was thinking of u guys as I pigged out on some eggs, fries and ketchup this morning. 

Is it safe to assume everyone calls eggs eggs?

 

 

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On 09/01/2018 at 9:46 PM, Fuzz said:

American Cookie = British/Australian Biscuit

American Biscuit = British/Australian Scone

British/Australian Cookie (softer and larger than a biscuit) =  American Cookie

But Jaffas are cakes, at least in the UK.

 

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3 hours ago, gweilgi said:

But Jaffas are cakes, at least in the UK.

 

Hmmm!? The only reason a "Jaffa Cake" is called a cake in the UK, is that it has a cake base.  If it was called a "Jaffa Biscuit"......well that would just be stupid

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It seems the origin of the word biscuit is 'cooked twice'. The 'Bis' part means twice, and suggests the item is dry and would be a crunchy, dry item.

If the word cookie derived from the Dutch "Koekje" of 'little cake', this sort of makes sense as they are soft.   But a cookie can never be a biscuit, as they cookie's, and biscuits are biscuits.

The true test is when you dunk them in your tea.

 

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Hmmm!? The only reason a "Jaffa Cake" is called a cake in the UK, is that it has a cake base.  If it was called a "Jaffa Biscuit"......well that would just be stupid
And they took it to court to prove it was a cake and not a biscuit, and won. This was done for tax reasons as in the UK cakes are not liable for Value Added Tax but biscuits are.

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The mem and I watched an episode of the latest series of the Great British Bake Off last night and had the same debate: is a teacake a cake?  Is it a muffin, a bun?  

Turns out the answer is easy.  In the US, a teacake is a biscuit.  In Australia, a teacake is a cake.  And in the UK, a teacake is a bun of sorts.  Although the strange folk in Yorkshire apparently use the term to denote a sandwich roll.

Next question: how did we get here from ketchup?  What epicurean madman puts tomato sauce on their cake/biscuit/bun???

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2 minutes ago, gweilgi said:

The mem and I watched an episode of the latest series of the Great British Bake Off last night and had the same debate: is a teacake a cake?  Is it a muffin, a bun?  

Turns out the answer is easy.  In the US, a teacake is a biscuit.  In Australia, a teacake is a cake.  And in the UK, a teacake is a bun of sorts.  Although the strange folk in Yorkshire apparently use the term to denote a sandwich roll.

Next question: how did we get here from ketchup?  What epicurean madman puts tomato sauce on their cake/biscuit/cake???

Bap, Barm cake, stottie cake..........it's endless I'd say the UK has about 50 different terms for a bread roll. It's a bit OTT.    Londoners call them Panini's apparently HA!

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6 minutes ago, 99call said:

Bap, Barm cake, stottie cake..........it's endless I'd say the UK has about 50 different terms for a bread roll. It's a bit OTT.    Londoners call them Panini's apparently HA!

 

Panini ... would that be ciabatta or focaccia?

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If it were possible to bet on whether a ketchup debate on a cigar forum would make it past 100 replies, I would have lost A LOT of money :lol:

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1 hour ago, Nekhyludov said:

If it were possible to bet on whether a ketchup debate on a cigar forum would make it past 100 replies, I would have lost A LOT of money :lol:

never in doubt!!

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