Fuckin Gonuts. n/t

[LeftyFingerPop]

[tango-tee]

1. Go nuts for donuts or just go nuts, dear lefty?

It's too early in the day to ponder these deep philosophical questions.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Are you in the UK?

It is a play on the US chain "Dunkin' Donuts". Do you have those?

[tango-tee]

3. Worse. Germany.

[tango-tee]

5. No Dunkin Donuts here,

but I remember them from the time I lived in America. There was one kind with sort of a squishy, creamy white filling, I think? Those were good.

But my all-time favorite has always been the plain old cake donut, with a dusting of cinnamon and sugar. Oh, I miss those! And there was a bakery close to where I lived at one time with the best-ever-known-to-mankind cinnamon rolls. You are causing me to take a serious trip down memory lane, lefty.

Donuts. I want donuts.

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. I got to Germany in the Summer of 1973...

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...and at the time, I think there was ONE Pizza Hut and ONE KFC "somewhere"
in the whole country. McDonald's had hit Nurnberg sometime in 1976 before
I left (maybe even late 1975) and there was a line two-three blocks long
for MONTHS (at least that's how I remember it).
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The German culture (in MY experience) is LIGHT YEARS ahead of ours in their
healthy attitudes toward much of the physical side of the human experience...
and I was blessed by some very enthusiastic, um... amateur therapists who took
me a LONG way toward a healthy attitude and perspective. And the opportunities
for physical experience were legion.
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All this leads up to what we all discovered one quiet, reflective night out in the
field sitting around a campfire -- very few of us had powerful sexual dreams as
we were LIVING those dreams for the most part.
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We all eventually and sheepishly admitted that our most "exciting" dreams were
about fast food -- THAT WHICH WE COULD NOT HAVE!!!!
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Very funny. Very revealing.
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My own culinary "wet dream"?
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The Whopper.
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No, I don't think that was Freudian at all. It was Flamebroiledian.
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And tango-tee, I would trade all the donuts in town for some plain old German
cheesecake with raisins. When we lived near the American hospital, there were
two bakeries and two florists within a block of us -- we had cheesecake and
fresh flowers once or twice a week.
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[tango-tee]

7. Isn't it odd how often it's particular foods

that we miss when we're away from home? Or from a place that we learned to love and then left? From what you have written, you seemed to have been a happy man when you lived here.

What I miss, besides cake donuts, is Texas BBQ. Have you ever had hot links they way they're made in Southeast Texas? With a helping of dirty rice and fried okra? I'm trying to keep from drooling as I'm typing this.

Oh, MFM, I can understand what you're saying.

About the cheesecake with raisins: It is so easy to make, but the one essential ingredient which distinguishes German from American cheesecake isn't readily found in America. It's Quark (no, nothing to do with James Joyce) instead of cream cheese. When I was in the States, I experimented with various combinations of cream cheese, sour cream and yogurt to replicate the texture of Quark. Some were pretty good, actually, but never the *real* thing. And only recently, 16 years too late, I found out that Quark can be easily made at home. I could kick myself.

The big hit over here now is - guess what - American cheesecake made with cream cheese! Go figure.

[S n o w b a l l]

4. Krispy Creme!!

No, Gonuts.