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sierra_le_oli

Random Dutch Observations

Nov 10, 2009 20:50

Things that have jumped out at me while in the Netherlands for a few days recently ( Read more... )

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sollersuk November 10 2009, 20:59:15 UTC

As usual, coffee is often served with a special little biscuit, tea generally without. Discrimination!

Many decades ago, when I worked for the North Thames Gas Board (as it then was), if we had tea in the aftrnoon we got free biccies in the morning and the afternoon. This was a bribe because the tea was absolutely dire. As I didn't like tea anyway, it wasn't a big deal, so I had the evil tea in the morning and the evil coffee in the afternoon and in any case had the biscuits. I rendered it in "Cosher Bailey" style as:

"In the morning we had coffee
That was thick and dark as toffee
And was floating round with tea leaves
Where you'd never think to see leave"

sierra_le_oli November 10 2009, 21:21:42 UTC

Your pome makes it sound really horrible! If it'd been me, I would've passed on the hot drinks as I can live without biscuits. :-) But I do love the little speculaas biscuits that come with coffee and think they are good accompaniment for tea too. Though I concede that the little coffee-flavoured biscuits might not go so well...

sollersuk November 10 2009, 21:27:21 UTC

Believe me, if you were working for NTGB in the late 60s/early 70s you needed something.

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sierra_le_oli November 10 2009, 21:23:47 UTC

Cheese toastie with jam -- that's the "it's just like brie and cranberry" school of thought, isn't it? Not sure where the chilli flakes come in though, yech!

sollersuk November 10 2009, 21:28:54 UTC

Cheese toastie with jam spells yech to me; the chili flakes might make it tolerable, as in, numbs the taste buds.

liasbluestone November 11 2009, 09:48:12 UTC

The quince jelly I made the other week goes beautifully with mature cheddar on crispbreads.

moustachios November 10 2009, 22:22:23 UTC

Opa does marmite and cheese, but I wouln't put him past adding sambal.

sierra_le_oli November 11 2009, 08:01:27 UTC

Marmite and cheese is normal, at least by NZ standards. As long as he's not adding sambal to that combination...

bellinghman November 10 2009, 22:37:06 UTC

Sambal with cheese. Yum.

(I've only got half a large jar left.)

sierra_le_oli November 11 2009, 08:00:20 UTC

I should've known you'd be one of the very special snowflakes. :-)

bellinghman November 11 2009, 10:06:13 UTC

I'm a very special snowflake? Really?!

*bounce*bounce*bounce*bounce*

bellinghman November 11 2009, 10:09:13 UTC

(And it's the Sambal Oelek in my case, just in case there turns out to be some totally different type of sambal which is actually a sweet fermented fruit yeast or something.)

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