Comments on: What’s the last thing you’d want to find on your beach?

By: stefficus

stefficus — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:03:03 +0000

*GRIN*

whaaaaaaaaat?? it’s all gone now. i won’t be tormenting you with it again.

there’s a fudge shop in estes park, colorado, that makes key lime fudge. i never tried it. (yep. that’s where that rip in the space-time continuum came from. sorry ’bout that.) i think that either see’s or kilwin’s also makes one, but i only ever recall seeing it in one of their catalogs.

By: stefficus

stefficus — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:00:47 +0000

i? would kick chicken-boy outta bed.

i do love it, though, that this is the first place people haven’t looked at me oddly when i start in on how hot i think CE is. and the dorkiness (and, yeah, the bitchiness) of doctor9 definitely contributes.

now, mr. tennant… once, when they let him be all mussed up AND wearing little geek glasses AND using his (real) scottish accent, i almost got what everyone sees in him.

but then i got better.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:25:48 +0000

Dammit! I know… I thought of that after I made the post. Sincerest apologies.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:25:12 +0000

I was just about to start writing a tarot article, but got distracted by the fudge site.

Mojo… you really shouldn’t show that to someone who JUST TOLD YOU she’s craving fudge.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:23:21 +0000

OH MY GOD, they have maple walnut fudge.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:19:54 +0000

Wow, that’s crazy they use blackcurrants so much over there! Well, I guess we use grapes in everything. We would grow and use blackcurrents here except they were outlawed plants until recently. Now, they can be bought, grown, and harvested as needed… IF you get a particular species that is resistant to a disease that killed pine trees. We wouldn’t want to kill a cash crop like that, now would we?

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:17:34 +0000

If I get fudge, I tend to like the peanut butter fudge, but sometimes you have to clarify with the confectioner that you also want it have chocolate in. Otherwise you get a peanut butter only fudge which is good, but not quite what I want. Once I had some orange-colored pumpkin pie fudge (sans chocolate), however, which was surprisingly good (as a rare treat, I am guessing). Key lime fudge I haven’t had but I wonder… In fact, here is where I got that fudge. Mmmm…. delicious.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:06:48 +0000

And blackcurrants are in everything in England. Including the skittles.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:51:46 +0000

I don’t crave fudge often but I’m craving it now. Peanut-butter fudge, to be specific. But around here, fudge is more a christmassy thing (or for us, a Tahitimassy thing). And when I do have some, a little bit tends to go a long way. I can’t gorge myself on fudge, I’d be sick.

But right now, really want some fudge.

I also wouldn’t mind some key-lime pie, since a certain SP newcomer has been eating it in front of me lately, arousing my lust for pie.

Hmm… key-lime fudge. Wonder how that would taste.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:44:01 +0000

Don’t know much about Manchester, but at least I’ve heard of Manchester United. And Manchester University. And now, Eccles cakes!

I just got caught in a Wikihole and the ‘debate’ about the use of the word currant when referring to raisins versus the completely different genus and species called the blackcurrant or redcurrant. Good gods, who knew? I suppose Eccles cakes are made with raisins, not the tart blackcurrant?

I almost never crave fudge itself, for some reason. Loved it as a kid, though. It was my favorite! Fudge brownies, however, LOVE those! Plus, they come in a box mix, so no need to understand particle physics, as you must do to make good homemade fudge. Or perhaps I just never had a good, easy recipe.

By: Che

Che — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:28:25 +0000

Yeah, I doubt I’d kick either one out of bed either.

In England you can get the pre-packaged Eccles cakes, but I don’t have to tell you they aren’t near as good as freshly baked ones. I love the “pride of Manchester” website. Manchester has so little to be proud of - Manchester United and Eccles cakes. And the former is debatable.

I’ve been craving fudge lately.

By: Mojo

Mojo — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:25:55 +0000

Seems that recipe wasn’t as traditional as one may expect. Here is a more traditional recipe with a little history. Niiiiiice.