Random Observations- Two Crotchety And One Upbeat

[poliphilo]

1. I'm never going to make one of those lists of things I'm thankful for because my mother told me when I was small that if you make too much noise about how happy and fortunate you are God will squash you like a bug.  Just look what he did to Job. Or maybe it's not God, it's the Brownies. Same difference. The point is there are powers out there that are very, very jealous of human success and only a fool would provoke them.

2.  What's this Cool Whip stuff you Americans put on your pie? It sounds disgusting. Whatever happened to cream?

3. John Howard's gone. That guy was a toad. I'm just so happy for all my Australian friends.

Comments

TransFat

[msjann65.livejournal.com]

Cream is butterfat, CoolWhip is Transfat. Both are hell on the heart muscle and the arteries. Whipped cream is preferable, but only when it can be used up quickly. I keep a container of Cool Whip on hand for those emergency desserts. The taste is creamy, not plastic like that old powdered mix. I always order whipped cream at restaurants when it is an option for a pudding or whatever. If an ice cream parlor ever serves me fake cream on a sundae or a banana split, I would send it back and demand a refund and never go there again! Some things just cannot tolerate substitutes!

Re: TransFat

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Thanks, you put it best. 'Emergency desserts'. I seldom eat anything that requires it, at home. (I have been known to get those lovely little cans of the stuff, though!)

Re: TransFat

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Now a lot of the cream we eat over here isn't whipped at all. It's more or less liquid and we just pour it on. If it's very runny it's called single cream and if it's thicker it's called double cream. I don't believe we ever had whipped cream in my childhood.