Posted on 12/08/2016 2:07:09 PM PST by C19fan
Read the article, read a lot of the stupid comments ( dunking cookies in tea is DISGUSTING and that's mostly what they were all snarking on about ), and looked for you. Now I know WHY I couldn't find you! LOL
Also did first look at some of the recipes and all I can say about the ones I read is....YUCK!
Really? Oh, no! I love the Guardian food section despite the hysterically silly comments section. Felicity Cloake is great. Nigel Slater is a better writer than cook or photographer and that Otto...guy is...hopeless. Home cooks do not want to cook with 400 ingredients! But, in general, I find it brilliant.
I bought some mini-Oreos at Hobby Lobby this afternoon to celebrate America. I then did a comparison at Wegman’s: comparing the nasty ingredients of Oreos to Hob Nobs and Jammy Dodgers. Those stupid Brits don’t even realize they eat the same “crap” that we do. At least Oreos provide not only real cocoa powder but chocolate as well. Which makes the biscuit part so delicious. The white interior is simply Crisco and sugar. Big deal!
Well of course the filling of Oreos is made with Crisco! Who doesn't know that? It's the same stuff that most grocery stores ( not the ones at Citterella, whose cakes and other bakery items are out of this world! ) have on their cakes.
Hob Nobs are nasty, Jammy Dodgers are too, and this whole "dunking" thing is revolting! And it is the "dunking" thing that most of the comments were about last night.
But you're right....mostly it was pathetic anti-American crap. Which besides The Guardian's faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty leanings, is WHY I tend to not usually read it as much as I do The Daily Mail and The Telegraph. :-)
I never use Nigel Slater’s recipes but he is a wonderfully evocative writer - his book “Toast” is very good as is “Eating for England.” His cooking is too fussy and not interesting. Nigella Lawson, on the other hand is wonderful.
Jammie Dodgers are horrible cookies. Made of bamboo and stale gummie bears. And so childish!
OTOH, I'm a big fan of Nigella Lawson's recipes and I loved her old shows. :-)
Spot on...re Jammy Dodgers, except more like stale, decades old JELLY BABIES, than Gummy Bears. Sorry, I am a Whoite and even have a VERY old picture of myself, next to Tom Baker's waxwork, at Madame Tussaude's, back in the '80s. ;^)
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