Why yes, I am easily bribed

[sparkindarkness]

Beloved: *laden with much shopping* Dig through that bag will you?
Brother mine: *rifles* you’re going to bake a cake? *with the smug smirk of those who can cook to those who can’t.*
Beloved: Nope
Brother: You’ve got 3 huge slabs of marzipan here, enough for a dozen cakes.
Beloved: Yes, my secret weapon. SPARKY?!
Me: Yes, oh Breaker of Plates? *graciously NOT holding a grudge*
Beloved: Peace offering. The plates will never be mentioned again.
Me: Marzipan! *leap*
Brother: He can’t bake either...
Me: I have no intentions of baking *opens packet*
Brother: You can’t eat pure marzipan.
Me: watch me *chomp*
Brother: Ewww, that’s awful.
Me: *nom nom nom*


Being bought of with marzipan doesn’t make me easy. No, not at all. It just means Beloved knows all the secret deals. Yes, yes it does.

Comments

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Why would you not be able to eat pure marzipan?

Marzipan, coloured with various food colorings and then shaped into fanciful shapes (often slices of sausage, or various fruits or vegetables, or wooden shoes, or whatever a confectioner's dirty mind can think up), is sold in great quantities here in .nl, particularly around Sinterklaas (December 5). Many of them just have colour around the outside, with plain white inside, and it's usually just colouring without flavouring anyway.

Then there's 'marzipan balls', which involves, unsurprisingly, balls of marzipan which are dusted in (Dutch process, obviously) cocoa powder for flavour and unstickyness. And the marzipan bars, which involve (again, unsurprisingly) a bar shape in marxipan, but this time coated simply in chocolate.

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

In Germany, those balls are called marzipan potatoes. I used to make them as christmas presents together with marzipan fruit. The best edible playdough ever.

The reason why you wouldn't want to eat pure marzipan in Britain is because British marzipan is icky. Way too sweet and kinda gritty, even if you buy the extra good stuff. You can get good marzipan from Lübeck, but only if you know where to shop.

[zero_pixel_count]

...marzipan's great.

Although I have to say you haven't lived until you realise as you're walking through NEC security that you've still got half a pound wrapped in clingfilm in your bag...

At least it wasn't an airport? An airport might actually have noticed...

[yuuago]

"Breaker of plates" ... xD Ah, that part amused me. And I certainly can't blame ye for holding a grudge (I would've been SO pissed too)

I can't say I know much about marzipan. I think I tried it once, but it was in a chocolate bar type thing, and wasn't very memorable. Perhaps I need to do some research. Seek some out, in the name of Science of course.

[mauracelt.livejournal.com]

One more reason to think we are actually related! I love marzipan myself and of course it can be eaten plain and simple, who would not just love it right out of the package? *sweets envy* You are one lucky fella, ya know that, right? ;)

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

After hearing the word casually referred to in various places for years, I finally looked up what "marzipan" was.

And now I want giant slabs of it too, dammit.

[allthepettylies.livejournal.com]

For some reason I was thinking Matzo (like, the stuff people eat for Communion and stuff) and my expression was: D:

[logophilos.livejournal.com]

You realise that's too adorable for words, right?

And marzipan, mmmm.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Right, yes, they might be called Marsepeinen aardappelen here too. I'm not too sure since I rarely buy them, and besides, they're quite clearly (along with the bars) just German imports with a multi-lingual sticker, rather than something locally traditional.

If I buy Marzipan, it's usually either the bars-coated-in-chocolate, or simple 500g bricks for cooking (which may or may not make it to such a purpose).

[xarra.livejournal.com]

I used to eat raw cookie dough - the stuff you buy in tubs. Oh, and raw buttercream icing in tubs... Aged 20+...

Erm... Wonder if that's why the dentist scares me...

[jrho.livejournal.com]

When I want to bake cookies, I do it from scratch. When I want to eat cookie dough, I buy it from the store. I will also consume any frosting left in unsupervised tubs while other people are baking cakes.

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Wow..in this I am completely the opposite. I dislike marzipan, and have gone so far as to scoop it out of the chocolates that remained in the box. (I ate all the non-marzipan pieces first, of course..then I was desperate.)

You can certainly have all my marzipan. I bequeath it to you with utmost relief, knowing that it will all go to a good home.

;-)

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

mmmmm. marzipan. further evidence of your good taste :D

[wonapalei.livejournal.com]

You know he loves you when he knows exactly what and how much he needs to bribe you...and then gets you an extra slab anyway. :D

BTW, whatever happened with the plates? Did you defraud the company out of a replacement or what?

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

I just had serious mental images of all involved in chibi forms, Beloved in the background breaking plates while Sparky gorges himself on marzipan and Brother stands to the side looking mortified and a bit ill.

I should try this stuff..*looks up* Never mind, would kill me. Eat some for me!

[electra310.livejournal.com]

When I got married, I went _crazy_ on the matching dishes and kitchenware. Not only did my dishes match, the cups matched the dishes, and so did the glasses, and the silverware, and the towels, the spoonrest, the colander, etc., etc. It was pretty easy, as my dish pattern was white with a dark blue stripe and a light blue stripe. Our dishes made it all of a month before my brand-new husband dropped one of the plates. I cried. He ended up buying me flowers, and I bought an entire new set of replacement dishes at the Pfaltzgraf outlet to keep in the closet and replace pieces as they break. It's so nice when the beloved understands how to get himself out of the doghouse.

[jerril]

The only reason I could think of for not eating pure marzipan would be if someone was vulnerable to sugar overload.

I can eat about a teaspoon (well, a big fat teaspoon) at a time before I get a bit overwhelmed, but DAMN it's worth it.

So very good.

[jerril]

1) I less-than-three your icon
2) My love and I have yet to go through the wedding business, but we've been living together for three years with a collection of mishmash plates. #1 on my priority list once we finally get married is matching plates/cups/mugs/glasses/everything, I swear.
But they will be a very solid chunky pattern because I don't trust myself or the cat, never mind Beloved, and I know what a dishwasher does to fragile plates (chips! chips off of everything!)

I'd go with brushed steel only I think the sound of a knife on the steel plate would be enough to send me through the roof.

[electra310.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a whole set of really lovely china that I've only used once in the three and a half years since the wedding. I keep it all in the boxes till I get a china cabinet, fearful of the carnage that would ensue if these lovely fragile plates were out where the cat or the husband could get at them. I didn't even _want_ china, but my mom said I needed to register a pattern, and now that I have it, I'm fiercely protective. I think it's some brain chemistry imbalance that starts as soon as you sit down at the registry counter at Bergners.

OMG. *Rolls eyes*

[caslayerboi.livejournal.com]

*Falls over, laughing my ass off*

Oh, lord. You guys are such a hilarious old couple.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Brother doesn't know what he's missing. Either that, or someone hasn't found the correct placative offering for him.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

See, I think there's no problem at all. Even if it is really really sweet and kinda sickly but oh-so-yummy

See, it's so much easier on the continent, they've got marzipan as a food rather than an ingredient. Here people tend to look at me as if I've decided to eat a bowl full of flour or a pat of butter

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I likkkke the sweetness :)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

sugar overload cannot touch me - or maybe I'm willing to ignore for marzipan

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

My grandmother walked through airport security with a bag of sweetner in her bag - fine white powder, what's suspicious about that? :)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Moi? a grudge? Never. I'm to kind, gentle and reasonable for that.

Indeed. Chocolate will disguise the taste too much - you need pure marzipan. In the name of research, of course

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

And I bet you are thin as a rail and don't have a single cavity, either.

One can go off people, you know.

[zero_pixel_count]

...come to think of it, Siobhan-my-mum's-colleague did the same on a flight to Ireland, with bone cement samples and no paperwork at all to prove who she worked for... They even checked her bag, but not the side pockets...

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Easten plain and simple and in vast quantities!

I am blessed. Even if he does break plates

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes you do. everyone does

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Matzo? can't say I've ever actually eaten it. For some reason it's in my head as some kind of kosher food?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Of course :) We're good at it

Double mmmmm

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I can't say i've ever seen that stuff, but I would som definitely eat it :0


My dentist pays me for my silence. I go once every 2 years (he insists it should be every 6 months but I've lengthened it) and every time he complains about my impossibly healthy teeth despite being rather lapse about the whole thing. Fear my granite teeth!

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Your marzipan quota does not belong to me

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

As if more were needed :)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It's loooove - and erring on the side of caution :)

Well, I rang them and said one was broken please re-send (which they agreed to) while beloved, in a fit of panic, rang them and ordered the whole set again. His argument is he can now break them and I can't complain

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Chibis! *runs and hides*

Everyone should try it!

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Yes, we will have pretty matching things!

I didn't cry but I did get a little.... irritable :) But he has realised he needas a complete second set for attrition purposes

Re: OMG. *Rolls eyes*

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes. yes we are:)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

He needs someone to find his bribery buttons

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

lol very veyr very lucky

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

:) :)

No filling at all. And I've been interventioned for weighing too little (silly people). But I work on it and generally eat well :)

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Matzo is an unleavened bread -- kind of like a cracker, but usually more crumbly and less tasty (although egg matzo is pretty darned good). It is eaten at Passover to commemorate the Israelites leaving Egypt so quickly they did not have time to wait for their bread to rise.