Happy Fat Thursday, y'all

[bwinter]

When you're on a diet, Fat Thursday sucks. So I coped by switching my allotted two 200-300 calorie meals to two rose-jam filling donuts and eating a faworek instead of the protein bar :>

I really don't understand how people can eat donuts that don't have rose-jam filling and candied orange peel on top, you know

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[fyrie]

I offer my deep sympathies. You'd think one would be able to control one's own muses, but it's never as easy as it sounds. Fortunately, my pushiest of muses tend to get restrained by the ones who have been around longer, which certainly goes a long way to explaining why there isn't pages of Marquis De Sade fic on my harddrive.

[bwinter]

I think the trouble with Gerald is that he's just my type, right down to his geeky computer-chip-collecting core. And the very end of the books mistreated him so woefully (all being his own fault, of course) that he just has to beckon and I'll come running to fix it.

Honestly. It's like Dracula and Dooku and Anakin and Boromir and Lucius and Alucard and Kraven and Lucifer all rolled into one, with an extra helping of hubris and stand-offishness. What can I do but push his boyfriend at him to make it all better?

(And the boyfriend is part Van Helsing, part Han Solo and most of the time a paladin. Does not help things.)

[fyrie]

...

Curses.

*buys all three books for 15 quid*

*waves a fist* I will get you for this, evil wench!

[bwinter]

>:D >:D >:D

You'll thank me yet. Or, you know, money back. After the Female Parental Unit is done with them, my editions might not hold together anymore - she keeps clutching them because she does not like Gerald and yet she has to love him because he's her type, too :>

[kaikias]

Mm, rose-jam-filled doughnuts.

[bwinter]

Best thing ever. Once I'm off the diet, I need to remember and buy one from Blikle - they're the best there are, but today it's nearly impossible to get any...

[muzivitch]

I really don't understand how people can eat donuts that don't have rose-jam filling and candied orange peel on top, you know.

I don't know, there's something to be said for Bavarian cream and chocolate. Or raspberry. Yum.

Although the cinnamon confectioner's sugar donut will also always remain a favorite. :) That and my initial reaction was ROSE-jam?!

[bwinter]

Eek, blasphemy :P The One True Polish Doughnut is the Blikle doughnut (at least in Warsaw - I expect other cities have their own famous bakeries), which according to today's newspaper should be large enough for three bits, have a walnut-sized dollop of rose jam in it, be fried in really hot lard so that it doesn't absorb it but instead goes all fluffy and brown-skinned, and then iced and sprinkled with candied orange peel. Mmmm. That's the reason Dunkin' Donuts went out of business in Poland.

And rose jam's one of the most decadent things on earth. Actual rose petals and rosewater... damn, why am I on a diet again? :S :S :S

[artela]

Fat Thursday?
Is that like the UK's Shrove Tuesday?

[bwinter]

Yeah, mostly. Only we eat doughnuts (pączki) and faworki instead of pancakes. It's a good day if you're looking for a good bakery/patisserie in the area, since it's bound to have a queue several dozens of metres long outside its doors. We even got doughnuts at work today; cheap ones though - oil-fried, pudding-filled and with far, far too much icing.

Shrove Tuesday, on the other hand, is called "Ostatki" (roughly, Last Day or Remains) and is the last occasion to party before Ash Wednesday.

[astarise]

Well I'd say I don't understand how people can eat donuts at all o_O The stuff looks uneatable for me...

But nonetheless a happy Thursday to you! I shall now celebrate it by eating a teaspoon of rose marmalade, yup :D
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[bwinter]

Most of them are. But Blikle ones, and to some extent Grycan, Fort Wola and stuff from this one teensy-tiny bakery in Wisla are gorgeous. It's just far too easy to ruin them.

...damn, I miss rose marmalade :S :S :S