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In the south there is no need to stress the 'iced' or the 'tea'. We simply ask for 'tea'. Hot tea is practically unheard of!
We do however have to specify 'sweet' or unsweetened'. Wonder why it's not 'sweetened'?????????????????
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Continuing the "No real import" tone of this thread...
Putting icing on cake is a stingy way of making the cake last longer by preventing loss of moisture.
Alternately, it's an effective method for loading more chocolate onto your dessert.
And if you like moist cake,, Dr. Bill, and icing prevents loss of moisture, why wouldn't you want the cake iced? Seems akin to saying "I hate getting wet" and tossing out your brolly at the first sign of rain.
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Easy! Once the cake had dropped and was heavy, soggy and indigestible no one else would want it and Dr Bill could have his fill.
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In the south there is no need to stress the 'iced' or the 'tea'. We simply ask for 'tea'. Hot tea is practically unheard of!
We do however have to specify 'sweet' or unsweetened'. Wonder why it's not 'sweetened'?????????????????
Indeed, Chemeng--hot tea is positively unnatural. I'll bet waitpeople say sweet as a timesaver.
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When Louis came home to the flat,
He hung up his coat and his hat,
He gazed all around, but no wifey he found,
So he said "Where can Flossie be at?"
A note on the table he spied,
He read it just once, then he cried.
It ran, "Louis dear, it's too slow for me here,
So I think I will go for a ride."
Shouldn't this have been in the revived Limericks thread?
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You know. It's weird when you think about it. You ice a cake or you frost it. But it really doesn't look like either ice or frost. It looks more like snow.
I think we should say we're going to snow the cake. And call the icing or frosting "snow" or "snowing."
Chocolate cake with chocolate snowing. How lovely! Pretty little chocolate snow moguls [aren't 'moguls' or something like that the bumps in the snow?]--candles standing like trees in the chocolate snow...
Batter regards,
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re:But it really doesn't look like either ice or frost.
maybe not to much like ice, which during ice storms is often a clear glace, but like frost, it does too!
frost can be thick and textured, and almost pure white, and most definately on the opaque end of translucent! Lucky you if you don't often get a hard frost.. and i suspect Wow, or Bean or Bel all regualarly get thicker frosts than i do!
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With all this talk I can't decide if I want something sweet or a cold beer in a frosty mug. QUIT already! [grin]
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big glass of lemonade for me, thanks!
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The elite of troy writes: maybe not to much like ice, which during ice storms is often a clear glace, but like frost, it does too!Looks more like snow!!!  But you mentioned glazing, and that's another term that ignores snow. Snow can fall in drifts. Think about what you do with that spatula. You make madmade drifts. I'm gonna snow my cakes from now on, that is, whenever I feel like cooking again. Mama Merle won't let me into the kitchen, and even with that chicken tikka masala recipe all ready to go and the cat hiding in the corner... Batter regards, WordWhipper
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