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You're so cool, BIWI! 🤩

Yes, cultural preferences for different foods are interesting. The idea that, had I by a twist of fate been born Australian, I'd have favoured "their" (no doubt wholly inferior to ours 😅) chocolate is seriously disorientating. But I probably would have!

It is not as good as British Dairy Milk, for sure. But it is heaps better than Herschey's chocolate with butyric acid.

I'm not sure where I sit ['Sit!']

This made me laugh. Thank you, Marie. Raisins aside...

(and there's an unexpected bonus - this thread's made spelling that come more naturally! - it was always a rare sticking point for me, with an unwanted "o" occassionaly creeping in before I recoiled in horror on seeing it written each time)

...I so enjoy your posts.

Marmite on toast made with thick white bread and real butter is the food of the gods.

Back in the 1970s, space rock band Hawkwind made a record about how Einstein's romantic disappointments were due to him not being down with subatomic physics.

Did none of those astronomers discover
While they were staring out into the dark
That what a lady looks for in her lover
Is charm, strangeness and quark

You don't get that kind of quality songwriting from Ed Sheeran or similar current year artists.

@lcakethereforeIam

What was the nature of a Cadbury Stroller?

Individual raisin, biscuit and toffee, covered in chocolate. A higher class Revel, if you will!

Yep - I did quite a bit of work in Oz for Cadbury back in the day and really didn't like the taste of their Cadbury Dairy Milk. But for Australians, that's 'their' Cadbury taste!

Dunno about mint, but I quite fancy the charm flavoured ones.

'There are six types, known as flavors, of quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom.[4] Up and down quarks have the lowest masses of all quarks. The heavier quarks rapidly change into up and down quarks through a process of particle decay: the transformation from a higher mass state to a lower mass state. Because of this, up and down quarks are generally stable and the most common in the universe, whereas strange, charm, bottom, and top quarks can only be produced in high energy collisions (such as those involving cosmic rays and in particle accelerators). For every quark flavor there is a corresponding type of antiparticle, known as an antiquark'

Antiquarkers gonna antiquark.

"Turtles"

Eventually we'll hit the turtles, then it's turtles all the way down.

Quirks were supposed to be the smallest particles, but by now we all know they'll come up with another one with an even sillier name in about five minutes.

Raisins soaked in tea reminds me I have nascent plans to try making bara brith. I've got a recipe bookmarked for dark chocolate and ginger bara birth but I feel I should make the original first before going all heretical. Do you think it could be made using sultanas instead of raisins. Only I've already got a bag of the former.

What was the nature of a Cadbury Stroller?

Does anyone else remember Quirks? They were like pastel smarties with a mint flavour. I bloody loved them.

Haha yes, that's true.

Thank you @BambooLampshade I've really enjoyed this thread. For various reasons. Weetabix really is the most versatile of breakfast options but I've currently banned it as my four year old drips it everywhere and it has dried into my table legs like cement that I can't seem to get off, despite using scrubbers and even (gulp) a flat cake knife.

I have also yet to find a dessert wine I like. And I want to find one as I love blue cheese and apparently it goes well with that. I'm off to a wine tasting event this year (Tom Gilbey, highly recommend his very funny YouTube videos btw), and I'm going to ask him what he recommends.

And to the actual point of the thread, I hope Mumsnet delivers the same warning to that unstable Aida they did to Aston uni. At least Eden was attempting a PhD, although with a flawed, biased premise. Aida appears to just be doing this for "fun"?

Ah good, I got it right. Thank you for reminding me of that extraordinary poem, I'm going to read it in full now
I'm not sure where I sit ['Sit!'] in the world of Irish doggyhood, but before my hair was grey it had a bit of a Red Setter tinge to it, so maybe that?

After I read The Hound of Heaven I really must go and do some important things, but I'm loathe to leave, you are all such good company, so funny and so erudite.

I'll draw a discreet veil over the dried fruits thing...😝
L8r, 🐊s

Yes, it is. Though I can’t see you as that kind of hound. Vacillating between Irish Setter and one of the less loopy spaniels.

Aha! the old 'keep my raisin-fanciers close but my raisin-haters closer still cos that way I'll get more raisins' ploy, eh Deano?

Everything is available there, and it is magically devoid of anything problematic like calories or gluten or the kind of alcohol that might get you in trouble with the rozzers while driving home. But still tastes lovely.

Managing to get Bolly on tap to still taste perfect involved a lorra lorra magic!😄
Pop in any time to test all these claims for yourself!

I'm much more likely to shun someone I suspect will try to steal my favourite foods than someone who'll leave them for me.

Not with boiled cake you're not. Totally oldfangled.

Thank you BPIs.. RegimentalSturgeon obvs likes it too.
Is that 'The Hound of Heaven', Mmmnotsure?

It's very admirable of you and Arabella and Deano to still give me the time of day, despite my unacceptable attitude to raisins

I did not know that Bolly was on tap at the bluestocking. Fuck, that is paradise!

Genuinely fascinating. Had never thought of the heat factor! Thank you. :)

Raisins soaked in rum added to banana bread is nice.

Someone please tell me that is not a real frog!

I hope we're not getting into any newfangleness.

Or put your raisins in tea, bring it to the boil, cool and sweeten the mix and proceed to make a tea brack / boiled cake.