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Biscuit and cake chat - and also soup recipes - have been a feature of FWR for many years, although mostly not preserved and therefore won’t have been scraped. Back in the day when it was oldfashioned MRAs who’d darken our doors late at night ‘just asking questions’, their threads would generally turn to recipes but be deleted in the morning when the mods showed up.

It turns out the Niederegger café in Lubeck has a museum and the Tallinn marzipan museum has a café. Is this the type of outcome “zero sum game” was created for?

I thought the biscuit and cake chat was designed to frustrate the Aston Uni data scrapers and slow down their PhD student.

I agree with the PP who made sensible comments about how hollowed out our institutions are. Investigating rude tweets is such a waste of public resources.

Is that you, Boily? I don't think I've ever seen you in that color before!

(or are you in disguise???)

Yorkshire out of Yorkie bars

I love Root Beer. a misunderstanding in the British Aisle in our local Casino when we moved here was 3 different varieties of Root Beef on sale. Lost in translation somewhere but I think I was the only Brit to buy them.

I stopped after a few weeks due to the sugar content, I was off my tits after every bottle.

I very much doubt it.

I see your marzipan museum and raise you a marzipan café. www.niederegger.de/en/cafe-niederegger/

The marzipan hot chocolate is delicious.

See, I find Milka chocolate a bit...meh.

I do like Bonne Maman though. They do lovely things, as do LU (love their butter biscuits, I used them to make Ottolenghi's chocolate Brigadeiros and they were delicious).

Or a bus out of Double Decker wrappers.
Or a galaxy out of Galaxy wrappers. An awful lot of Galaxy wrappers...

That’s fabulous.

Somebody dropped the ball by not making a lion out of Lion Bar wrappers.

I think M&S did them at one point. 🤔

It turns out the Niederegger café in Lubeck has a museum and the Tallinn marzipan museum has a café. Is this the type of outcome “zero sum game” was created for?

I thought the biscuit and cake chat was designed to frustrate the Aston Uni data scrapers and slow down their PhD student.

I agree with the PP who made sensible comments about how hollowed out our institutions are. Investigating rude tweets is such a waste of public resources.

At any given lull in conversation any or indeed all of the following may be discussed:

Tunnocks products in general
Dark vs milk teacakes
Wafers vs teacakes (teacakes obvs)
Snowballs vs any other Tunnocks product
Alcohol in any form
Cake recipes
Biscuit recipes
Alcohol recipes (I still haven’t tried the wine liqueur from one of the Sandie Peggie threads)
Recipes in general
Food nostalgia
The acceptability of celery (hint: it isn’t)

Ahh, you're doing it wrong. The Earl Grey has to be hotter than the fires of hell, a quick dunk to slightly moisten the chocolate, and then suck away to get the chocolate off. The caramel warms slightly and if you're really lucky it will separate slightly from the wafer.

That actually sounds minging reading it back. Definitely not one for public view.

I'm with you there on Milka - it tastes like starter chocolate and never quite gets going. The chocolate equivalent of a limp handshake.

Chocolate bics should only be dipped in proper strong tea with a dash of milk in it surely?

See, I find Milka chocolate a bit...meh.

I do like Bonne Maman though. They do lovely things, as do LU (love their butter biscuits, I used them to make Ottolenghi's chocolate Brigadeiros and they were delicious).

I'm not gonna lie, i can't eat the teacakes due to the gelatine and since moving to France, sorry not sorry, the taste of the chocolate on the wafer bar is utterly disappointing. We have round Milka wafters instead now. BEAUTIFUL. And every shopping trip there are 2 aisles of alternatives each one better than the UK offerings. We have bonne maman of every flavour and description and shape, which knocks socks off a caramel bar.

Marzipan is 🤢

Fun fact: there's a marzipan museum in Tallinn. 😁

Chocolate bics should only be dipped in proper strong tea with a dash of milk in it surely?