Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024
Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024
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I think the man and I have kept the economy going with a consumption of pies and coffee. Oh and beer.
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A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. It's a mince pie.
A vanilla slice is not called a vanilla slice custard square thingo. You will be met with confusion, recognition then a smirk all within seconds. Coconut maybe included. A nice surprise.
A large coffee is in fact a medium. An extra large is a large and rarer to find so will elicit a very eager YES PLEASE.
I think NZ is sponsored by Speight's. It's everywhere. On tap, at the bottle-o, 2nd aisle of every supermarket. Milk, bread, eggs, a six pack.
I really miss my little dog and doona covers.
A plain pie, beef pie or beef mince pie is wrong. It's a mince pie.
Don't the poms eat a fruit pie thing they call a "mince pie"? It's like a Christmas thing I think
A lot of places just call basic mince pies "plain pie" or similar which I don't mind all too much
They do indeed. So do Australians - check out colesworth. The original 'mince pie' would have had beef or pork mince in it. It was a protein/sugar/vitamin blast reserved for celebrating the 12 days of Christmas (which go from Christmas Eve to 6th January) before the peasants went back to eating pottage only until Easter. Its a small pie that can be made in quantity and handed out to all an sundry to celebrate the holy season. Which was a thin Christian layer over a much older tradition of celebrating the darkest coldest time of the year with fire and good food and good company.