I can certainly see being sick of THINGS. These presents you've chosen sound great -- a fishing net, a pig and a sheep. I really like the fishing net. Our little town has a special statue erected for the seiners here -- he's a handsome fella... and the net is cool:
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I saw, btw, the cutest little Marzipan pigs today. They were fat and pink and the length of my little finger. Those & maple sugar Santas seemed like good stocking stuffers.
Oh yes, marzipan pigs would be terrific, wonder if I can get them here! Maple sugar I haven't seen at all in England, shame, it sounds good.
Maple sugar is good, though awfully sweet. A little goes a long way. Supposed to have lots of trace minerals and therefore, it's candy that is good for you.
Good luck finding the Marzipan pigs -- a hightone grocery is where I saw mine. (Does anybody really call it marchpane?)
There's a fabulous confectioners in Munster, Westphalia, which has wonderful marzipan figures in the window. I remember the marzipan fruit and vegetables, but I bet they could do pigs too, if they don't do them already. Walter could show you where. It's just near the statue of the little man with the rucksack.
"Ox and ass before him bow
And he is in the manger now....
Sheep and pigs stand all around
Of marzipan, as I'll be bound"
McTag wrote:"Ox and ass before him bow
And he is in the manger now....
Sheep and pigs stand all around
Of marzipan, as I'll be bound"
This is what the pigs looked like, however this one weighs 1 pound. The ones I saw weighed about an ounce.
"According to tradition
the person who who obtains the prized Marzipan Pig will be rewarded with financial prosperity and well being. Good Luck!"
Maybe I'd better buy some more?
I like your pigs more than somewhat.
The only UK pigsite has these, which are not very nice to look at though because they are gluten and GM free, may taste ravishing.
It's Café Grotemeyer, and the fruits/vegetables really are nice (they make all sortsd of marzipane things, but I can't find a photo in the moment):
My favourites are however here
Looks very tasty. But it's rather a long way to go for marzipan animals. I could probably make some myself. It has the consistency of play-doh doesn't it?
It does, Clary, almost exactly. Hah. Are you good with play-doh?
Walter -- nice marzipan fruits & vegies. Café Grotemeyer makes them seem so real. Their cakes look beautiful, too.
Since I once murmured an interest in marzipan - which is true, some marzipan, as in Sjaak's chocolates - a friend sends me these apples and banana things every so often, obtained on one of her many trips abroad. I try them hopefully, but, no, not wonderful.
I am probably, unbenownst to even me, a marzipan snob.
When I was little, the only thing I did not like to eat was marzipan.
I quite like it now, though. And everything else. No dislikes at all. Bring it on. That reminds me, it's lunchtime.
McT
I have to second the marzipan yuck factor. Play doh is exactly how I'd describe it--really really sweet Play Doh.
But in Naples and in Sicily I saw the most amazing fruits and veggies, figurines--tons of items!
It's quite the thing there, and Clary, you're so close! What's a hop to Naples :-)
Big bruhaha in Naples right now, according to today's paper -
some internecine Camorra stuff. Not that that would keep me from going...
Nothing new, really: there have been more than 120 homicides in Naples this year, compared with 64 in 2002 - but e.g. in 1982, at one peak of violence, there were 240.
That reminds me, I want a DVD boxed set of The Sopranos for Christmas. Must get before they sell out.
McTag! Funny.
I want to point out that Clary's birthday is tomorrow and it's going to be tomorrow fairly soon in Europe, I think. Happy Birthday, Clare, I wish you many more lucious years of travel & bliss.
Piffka, is yours tomorrow as well? Happy Birthday to both Clare and Piffka, and many happy returns.
Ditto! Happy Birthday; it's still yours here!
