Yup, definitely not from around here

[hbevert]

This week's example: I don't know what a Texas sheetcake is. I also don't know how it's different from a sheetcake when I'm talking to a customer at work who wants to make a special order of salads and cake for a party. My locally-raised co-worker insists that all sheetcakes are Texas sheetcakes, but I know that the sheetcakes on our price list are

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[mrissa]

I was in Nanaimo an hour ago.

I did not eat a bar.

[arebekah]

Nanaimo bars are a holiday treat in my family - Mom used to send them out, along with other goodies that don't belong to my family's geographic or ethnic heritage: baklava, turtles and rum cake. She picked the things she liked best and shipped well and then always made enough for the local family members to have some, too.

Texas sheetcakes

[smuzikant]

I never heard of either Texas or non-Texas sheetcakes and I was born 'n' bred in Illinois.