As someone who has always been hesitant to get involved in discussions, I would just like to comment that if I had joined the lyst in the last couple of weeks I would have immediately fled in terror! The worry that remarks might result in a personal attack does not encourage new members to participate.
I attended Redemption, which was my first convention, and although I recognised some of the badge names as members of this lyst I was too shy to come and introduce myself! I did talk briefly to Judith Proctor however, who I found to be friendly and helpful. I hope to go to the next Redemption - by which time, I may have been brave enough to share my opinions with you all!
Hev
Hev wrote:
To be honest, I'm now convinced I've wandered into some sort of bizarre alternate universe, like the crossover episodes in DS9, or those episodes from Buffy. It's gone just freaky round here.
Oh please do - share opinions and come and say hello next time! The more the merrier, and many Lyst members were meeting face-to-face for the first time.
Una
Iain Coleman wrote:
If anyone thinks there is some item of take-away food that the Scots would never dream of frying... they're wrong. It's our national sport.
Which leads me back to the question I meant to ask the last time you brought up snack foods - and I know it sounds off-topic, but it's for a fanfic, so it's not really - will someone tell me whether there are Twinkies in the U.K., or what the equivalent might be? (Twinkies over here are little (4") mass-produced fingers of sponge cake with fluffy cream filling inside, said to have a shelf life as enduring as cockroaches.) I keep thinking a certain Scottish-y character might be rather fond of them, though I don't think they'd be much good batter-fried.
Mistral
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mistral wrote:
We don't really do Twinkies here, I don't think. One could doubtless find a similar product on the supermarket shelf, but it wouldn't be anything well-known, I don't think.
I keep thinking a certain Scottish-y character might be
rather fond of them, though I don't think they'd be much good batter-fried.
You might want to go with Cadbury's Creme Eggs. Chocolate eggs, about 4cm long, hollow, and filled with an extremely sticky and sweet creamy goo. Popular, unhealthy, and apparently rather good covered in batter and deep-fried.
Iain
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Bernard Hunt wrote:
Oh, that's a pretty long-standing one. A friend of mine was particularly keen on pizza deep-fried and then folded in half and filled with chips, forming a kind of starch and lard sandwich. Skinny as a rake, so he was -- mind you, that'll be the amphetamine sulphate.
Iain
Mistral said:
There is no Twinkie equivalent in terms of flavour, texture, and chemical composition, however, there is a thing called "Tunnock's Caramel Wafer" which has abominably high sales volume.
It's basically a caramel wafer thingy covered in chocolate. The most harmful thing in it is sugar, and it's very tasty and goes well dunked in tea - or anything else hot.
Check out http://www.tunnocks.co.uk
Tunnock's have been going for ever, and are actually of Scottish origin.
They also have such marvellous products as the "tea cake", "mallow" and "Caramel Gold".
I have to say, my favourite is by far and away the Caramel Gold, although in their absence the good old Tunnock's Caramel wafer is just as welcome.
Peter.
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Peter Borg (Lysator) wrote:
Perfect! Thank you, Peter. I sensed my Creme Egg suggestion was a bit wide of the mark, but now I know why.
Mistral, the Tunnock's Caramel Wafer is the way to go. I bet they'd deep-fry marvelously, too.
They are a true cultrual icon, and a Scottish institution.
Iain
Iain Coleman wrote:
I wish to say thanks to everyone who's contributed to this thread. My Dumpling now has lots of choices to gratify his sweet tooth. With regards to Tunnock's products, two questions: do their Snowballs have a high enough visibility to be recognizable? (because we have a product called Snowballs here, so that might work well on both sides of the Atlantic); and do I need to specify Tunnock's, or will 'Caramel Wafer' or 'Snowball' get the idea across?
Mistral
Una said:
To be honest, I'm now convinced I've wandered into some sort of bizarre alternate universe, like the crossover episodes in DS9, or those
episodes from
Buffy. It's gone just freaky round here.
Hear, hear! If someone disagrees with you about the backstory, actions, or motivations of a fictional character, there is no reason to insult her or him on that account.
-(Y)
From: Iain Coleman ijc@bas.ac.uk
I can understand that. If I had a beard like yours, it would make me want to shout.
Don't have a name for mine. Can I call it Iain?
Neil
From: heather wheeler hev@wheelers00.freeserve.co.uk
I attended Redemption, which was my first convention, and although I recognised some of the badge names as members of this lyst I was too shy
to
come and introduce myself!
Actually I did notice you several times at the bar, but I could have sworn I'd seen you at earlier cons. You seemed to be in one of those subgroups that inhabit every convention. (You go around thinking, 'Oh yes, here's that bunch again, all together as usual. And that lot, same table as last time.' It's quite interesting the way people socialise at cons, core nuclei of old friends that stick together whilst others drift around like an electron cloud.)
Feel free to come up and say hello.
Neil
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