OT, from Gillian

What's wrong with cereal? I've been a cereal addict since I was a young girl!

Dipped in chocolate, of course!

Pat

Oh, but of *course*! LOL!

Joan

Yeeuuucchhh!!! This must be like the Marmite thing - love it or hate it!

I love both of them - but not both together! Now crisps (potato chips) covered in chocolate are gorgeous, oddly enough!

Pat

I must confess to being fond of kippers with marmalade (don't ask!)

I like chocolate covered pretzels!

Cheryl

Okaayyyy..... Salty, sweet, fish, fruit.....I'll take your word for it.

Cheryl

I once had dark chocolate covered little squares of cream cheese. It sounds yucky but it's really very good.

And something new to entice me are dark chocolate covered Raisinettes. I haven't yet seen them in the store, but I did see an ad so I'm impatiently waiting for them to appear on the shelves.

Lucille

Trader Joe's dark chocolate covered anything are heaven! Cheryl

Me too! Joan has been leading me astray! Still not too sure about chocolate covered dill pickles though! I suppose I COULD suck the chocolate off and give the dill to DH, who is a pickle freak! LOL!

Pat

What on earth posessed you to try THAT combination, Bruce? I AM asking? I like both - but not together!

Pat

When in the RAF and on exercise with the army in Northern Europe the vagaries of the rationing system often produced shortages and surpluses that gave rise to strange combinations of food. Some were better than others! One popular technique was to open all the tins regardless of the contents, empty them into a pot and heat it thus producing an amazing variety of nutritious (but not necessarily tasty) stews.

Shudder!

Though, in Cambridgeshire, I was introduced to buttered white toast with sharp cheddar and orange marmalade. It is good! Cheryl

Kippers with marmalade don't entice me at all, but buttered toast with cheddar and orange marmalade sounds wonderful.

I love both the cheddar and the marmalade, but I've never thought of them together. Now all I need to do is pick up a good loaf of white bread and I'm definitely going to try it.

Lucille

One tasty Yorkshire tradition (and maybe elsewhere in the more civilised bits of Britain) is to serve a slice of Christmas cake or any rich fruit cake with an accompanying hunk of Wensleydale cheese. My grandmother's favourite was two slices of buttered bread with a filling comprising a slice of rich fruit cake - an acquired taste!

Use butter, not a "spread". The taste is all wrong! My first thought was YUCK, but I learned better. I guess the Swedes that stayed in the B&B we stayed in introduced DH and others to this treat at the breakfast table. They had moved on, but the sharp cheddar stayed on the table. Cheryl

I have heartburn just thinking about it! I've had some really good fruitcakes and more really bad ones.

I have favorite snack, a few almonds, some really good sharp cheese and a few small squares of dark chocolate. Maybe some dried apricots in the mix or dried sour cherries. All told, maybe a little more than a 1/3 cup in volume, but so good. The mix of flavors and textures really makes it seem like I have more than I do. Cheryl

Really good, sharp cheese is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Most cheese seems to be of the "processed" variety which looks like and often tastes like putty. Fortunately there is a good deli in Kirkwall that has a good selection of "real cheese".