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[dakegra]

I'm back home.

Well, I got back home yesterday after a five hour drive. But I've just about recovered from my week away.

So. What happened whilst I was gone? Did I miss anything exciting?

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[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

...hellziggy started it.


Oddly, candy was never much of an incentive for me. I'm probably the only kid on the block who wanted semisweet chocolate in their Easter basket. And I HATE most "holiday" candy.

Does "sweets" mean only "candy" over there, or does it include pastries and cupcakes? I can be bought with those, providing there's some semisweet chocolate involved.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I'm intrigued by the phrase 'semisweet chocolate'

sweets here could refer to chocolate as well as candy (hard or soft, jelly type), though if you offered me sweets, I'd assume you meant candy rather than chocolate. After all, if you had chocolate, surely you'd offer me chocolate rather than sweets.

You can also have a sweet after a meal, which would be a sweet course, or pudding. Mmmm, pudding.

Now, I'm not sure what you'd refer to the bit after your savoury meal as - could be cake/trifle/cheescake/etc

pastries and cupcakes are just called pastries and cupcakes over here, though we may refer to pastries as 'Danish pastries'.

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

Anything served after a savory meal is "dessert", no matter what it is. It could be pie, cake, pudding, chocolate, a sweet alcoholic concoction (hot or cold) or, God help me, fruit.

When we say "a Danish" we refer to a very specific type of pastry. I think it's a rolled dealie with fruit rolled into the layers, but not to be confused with a fruit roll.

Speaking of desert, I just had a lovely slice of strawberry rhubarb pie, heated up and served with vanilla ice cream. Yumm!