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obviously Rhuby's tomgue was occupied seeking cream in a hole...
Ooooerrr..... I think this belongs over on the double entendre thread in Today's word of the day
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Bean says: we were served similar things known as (a) elephant ears, or (b) beaver tails
I know an elephant ear as a baked rather than a fried goodie. It's roughly heart-shaped, kind of like the shape of two elephant ears laid against each other (guess they'd have to be severed from the elephant's head, but let's just skim over that part) and glazed with a bit of sugar syrup. I've heard them called palmiers as well, but I think that's a slightly different shape of the same thing.
I wonder if the elephant ear Bean refers to is what I call fried dough, and what my Midwest-raised sweetheart calls a funnel cake - a flat piece of dough fried in hot oil and sprinkled with powdered/confectioner's/10x sugar and cinnamon. (could this be Bill's spider cake as well?)
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How many AWAdtalkers know what "spider cake" refers to?
Is it merchandise to accompany a recent movie blockbuster?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a spider cake. Eat it and you too can experience spidey's powers.
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FF, as you probably know, I can drive a couple of miles and watch Krispy Kremes being made; row after row of them, sliding warm and steaming off the conveyor belt...
I could watch (and have watched) for hours on end, cup after cup, byte after byte.
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fried dough
Your description sounds right, Hyla. So now we have
elephant ears (farmers of German descent in Saskatchewan) = beaver tails (Manitoba) = fried dough (self-descriptive) = funnel cake (US Midwest)
The toutons to which I referred are much less flat, more like a donut in size, but not so puffy. Crunchier and denser than a donut.
Serendipitously, I was reading a 25-year-old book about Canadian English today at lunch, and in discussing words peculiar to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, they mention fosnoh, fosnut, fassnack, from Fast nacht "fast night" or "night of fasting" as a word for donut. BUT, they add that the German vocabulary features which include this word are also found in German-settled areas of the US, esp. Pennsylvania, and parts of western Ontario.
Anyone here know/use any of those three words for donut, and if so - where are you from?
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All this torus-related discussion brings to mind a couple of things:
While on a work trip to Dallas some years ago, I came across a diner that served something called a "spudnut" - a donut made from potato flour, rather than wheat. They declared it to be much lighter and tastier than a typical donut - but it seemed like just a donut to me.
Topologically, we're all donuts.
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Topologically, we're all donuts.
Huh?? This begs further discussion.
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I got that one, Hyla, verlanden, if you took donut, made say of clay, and in the center hole, inserted a curved, shaped straw (something the silly drinking straw they have for children,) then squished the clay aound the straw, and shaped it like a mannikin.. from a mathematical point of view, you would still have a donut, or torus. if you could gently remove the straw, with out damaging the mannikin shape, it would be even more donut like.. even though, you could no longer see through the hole, as you can on a donut..
and aren't humans really shapeded like that? don't we really have an opening, that starts in our mouth, and ends and the other end of our body? Our arms and legs, simple bumbs from the outer ring.. and the inner ring? the alimentary canal from one end to the other-- a bit bent and twisted, like the straw, but really a hollow tube that runs through the middle. So topologically, we are all donuts..
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Perzackly, dearest Helen.
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