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RainbowNerdAlix said:
Pink Panther wafers for me and a very warm welcome to you.
And I'm more than happy to pop the kettle on for us all or I have a pantry full of prosecco :)
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Oh well you can have all the pink wafers then, Alix. I bet you like the coffee-flavoured Rose's chocolates, too, that always get left in the box. It's good to be different. Speaking of coffee, if you are putting the kettle on, I have mine black, no sugar. Very kind, cheers. Although, who has a pantry these days? Have you time-travelled from the 1800s? Do you know Lewis Carroll? "Alice in Wonderland" remains one of my favourite books even though I'm now 37.
 
I just have a old victorian house, with its pantry still intact. It used to be a B & B :)
 
Zclesa said:
Haha, do we have another Brit here?
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Spot on. Just a few miles down the road in Royal Berkshire.
I'm with you on the wafers, pink or otherwise, only useful in ice-cream.
My personal favourite is milk chocolate digestive, or maybe garibaldi (or dead fly biscuit, as we used to call it.)
 
Tim James said:
Spot on. Just a few miles down the road in Royal Berkshire.
I'm with you on the wafers, pink or otherwise, only useful in ice-cream.
My personal favourite is milk chocolate digestive, or maybe garibaldi (or dead fly biscuit, as we used to call it.)
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Cool! Yes, I should have specified, the milk chocolate digestives. My other half does insist on buying the plain chocolate ones. Why? Probably because he knows they won't tempt me. The choccy digestives are ideal for dunking, too. As long as you get the timing right. Otherwise, we all know what happens - lost biscuit. Until you get to the end of your cuppa of course, and then it's just a yucky, grainy mess at the bottom. Tragedy.
 
AngryPI said:
Welcome to the Colony!
Still learning. Nothing to teach, so far.

Mine's a Hobnob...
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Thanks for the welcome :) Hobnobs, really? They're like health food aren't they? No wonder you're angry. Has no-one ever introduced you to the wonders of decadent refreshments?
 
Zclesa said:
Thanks for the welcome :) Hobnobs, really? They're like health food aren't they? No wonder you're angry. Has no-one ever introduced you to the wonders of decadent refreshments?
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How dare you?!
I have never ever heard of hobnobs ever be described as "healthy". If they are, I really need to reevaluate my life choices--I don't want to be associated with biscuits marketed that way. Unless they do non-chocolate covered ones? Because it's chocolate or no dice.
 
AngryPI said:
How dare you?!
I have never ever heard of hobnobs ever be described as "healthy". If they are, I really need to reevaluate my life choices--I don't want to be associated with biscuits marketed that way. Unless they do non-chocolate covered ones? Because it's chocolate or no dice.
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Ah, this is where we got mixed up. They do indeed do non-choccy Hobnobs, which I assume were invented for people who drink wheatgrass juice for their main meal and then perhaps have a quarter of a Hobnob for dessert. I'm sorry that I defamed you by not realising that you were referring to the chocolate Hobnob, which is, of course, a completely different category of biscuit. And it holds up well after a good dunking, too. No need to be as precise with timing, which can't be said for the digestive, of course. Good choice. My apologies, again.
 
Zclesa said:
Ah, this is where we got mixed up. They do indeed do non-choccy Hobnobs, which I assume were invented for people who drink wheatgrass juice for their main meal and then perhaps have a quarter of a Hobnob for dessert. I'm sorry that I defamed you by not realising that you were referring to the chocolate Hobnob, which is, of course, a completely different category of biscuit. And it holds up well after a good dunking, too. No need to be as precise with timing, which can't be said for the digestive, of course. Good choice. My apologies, again.
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No, no. Not at all. I did a little bit of research and there IS apparently a choc-less version of the hobnob that scores well on "health" tests. Such pageantry...

Do people eat a quarter of a hobnob at a time?
They should know that the reason for the non-resealable packaging of all biscuit types is that you are SUPPOSED to eat the whole packet in one sitting.

As long as my good name is untarnished with wheatgrass associations, then my welcome still stands.
 
AngryPI said:
No, no. Not at all. I did a little bit of research and there IS apparently a choc-less version of the hobnob that scores well on "health" tests. Such pageantry...

Do people eat a quarter of a hobnob at a time?
They should know that the reason for the non-resealable packaging of all biscuit types is that you are SUPPOSED to eat the whole packet in one sitting.

As long as my good name is untarnished with wheatgrass associations, then my welcome still stands.
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Thank you. Clearly your eyes are excellently trained to bypass the non-chocolate versions of biscuits on display in the supermarket. That's almost a superpower. Well done.

I believe some people do the "twist the end of the packet round" as a sort of resealing method. I have always found it highly unreliable. As we all know, biscuits have a voice that beseeches you to untwist the package and dip in again. I suppose it's a bit like a dog whistle that only the true biscuit devotee can hear. They clearly want to to be eaten as soon as possible, otherwise they haven't fulfilled their purpose in life. It would just be cruel to deny them their destiny.
 
Zclesa said:
Thank you. Clearly your eyes are excellently trained to bypass the non-chocolate versions of biscuits on display in the supermarket. That's almost a superpower. Well done.

I believe some people do the "twist the end of the packet round" as a sort of resealing method. I have always found it highly unreliable. As we all know, biscuits have a voice that beseeches you to untwist the package and dip in again. I suppose it's a bit like a dog whistle that only the true biscuit devotee can hear. They clearly want to to be eaten as soon as possible, otherwise they haven't fulfilled their purpose in life. It would just be cruel to deny them their destiny.
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Did you just give biscuits, character and a purpose? I think you're in the right place!
 
Amber said:
Carol Rose is from Iowa? Indiana? She's from a very wholesome, friendly place in the United States.
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Ohio, actually. :) I live in Indiana now though. :) I wouldn't call either of those friendly, wholesome places (maybe in the rural parts but not so much in the cities!) but at least here up north, when we say "bless your heart" we mean bless your heart. Now in Tennessee, however... LOL! :)
 
AgentPete said:
I've known a few pigs, and they've all been quite amenable. Goats, however... now there's stubborn...

And welcome, Zclesa!
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Thank you for the welcome, Pete. I know what you're saying about goats. However surely the most stubborn creature of all has to be the cat. Just try and move one when it's made a nice warm spot on your bed, which you now want to get into. I have nearly lost fingers trying to remove cats from bedding.
 
AngryPI said:
How dare you?!
I have never ever heard of hobnobs ever be described as "healthy". If they are, I really need to reevaluate my life choices--I don't want to be associated with biscuits marketed that way. Unless they do non-chocolate covered ones? Because it's chocolate or no dice.
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Ahem! I hope we're talking dark chocolate hobnobs here - none of that wishy washy milk chocolate variety!!! And no - you're not fobbing me off with one of those pink wafer biscuits cos you've just scoffed the whole packet!!!!
 
Kitty said:
Ahem! I hope we're talking dark chocolate hobnobs here - none of that wishy washy milk chocolate variety!!! And no - you're not fobbing me off with one of those pink wafer biscuits cos you've just scoffed the whole packet!!!!
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Wishy washy milk chocolate VARIETY? That is the only choice! Dark chocolate is just too bitter for something that is supposed to be delicious-anyone will tell you that. Those pink wafer things are for the kids that don't know pink isn't a flavour. Scoffed? Scoffed! I scoff nothing, I elegantly devour in record time so that no-one gets their dirty germs all over 'em.

Dark chocolate indeed. Hrum!
 
AngryPI said:
Wishy washy milk chocolate VARIETY? That is the only choice! Dark chocolate is just too bitter for something that is supposed to be delicious-anyone will tell you that. Those pink wafer things are for the kids that don't know pink isn't a flavour. Scoffed? Scoffed! I scoff nothing, I elegantly devour in record time so that no-one gets their dirty germs all over 'em.

Dark chocolate indeed. Hrum!
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WHAT!!! How can you say that!!! Dark chocolate is the only way to fly!
 
Zclesa said:
Thank you for the welcome, Pete. I know what you're saying about goats. However surely the most stubborn creature of all has to be the cat. Just try and move one when it's made a nice warm spot on your bed, which you now want to get into. I have nearly lost fingers trying to remove cats from bedding.
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My parent's cat Moth loves to sleep on my mother's head at night, above her on the pillow. Nice and warm, the rising heat. Like a gigantic Russian hat and of course, she overheats. Speaking of which, one of my sisters had to go to Moscow today on business. Should be interesting.
 
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My mum's cat does that to her as well. It would be alright except he's a huuuuugggggeeee cat. In fact, he's so big, that they had to install a small dog-flap instead of a cat-flap in the door, as he kept getting himself stuck in the old cat flap. So I imagine my mum wakes up with neckache a lot of the time.
 
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