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fresco_le_raye
2007-09-24 08:31 pm UTC (link)

It's not just butter icing that doesn't exist in Britain! In a thread further down

oncelikeshari states with equal vehemence "White Christmases don't happen in real life here".

Obviously I've been imagining them all these years. And that time my mother* couldn't get home on Boxing day because we were snowed in... it didn't happen! Good to know.

*who used to put lemon juice in the butter icing, thus making it ~~inedible~~ Lemon Butter Icing

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fides
2007-09-24 08:53 pm UTC (link)

I believe, in terms of betting, it is only officially a White Christmas in the UK if snow falls on the roof of the Met Office in London. Since London is in the south, and has its own micro-climate, an official 'bookies must pay out on all the people who bet we would have bet we would have a White Christmas this year' White Christmas is very rare - and often accompanied by three feet up snow 'up north' ;-)

That was hedging towards the serious wasn't it. Sorry. Have cake. *passes over slice of lemon drizzle cake*

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	fresco_le_raye 2007-09-24 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	London doesn't exist as far as we Up North are concerned ;-) sees your lemon drizzle cake and raises you a Bakewell Tart with little wavy lines on the icing (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	papervolcano 2007-09-24 09:47 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, but as far as London is concerned, everything north of the Watford gap is a vague, unsettling nightmare. We're not actually certain of the existence of things outside the M25, unless we need somewhere to commute from. misses Newcastle wants a Bakewell tart with a Cherry on top, or possibly a slice of victoria sponge (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fresco_le_raye 2007-09-24 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	But Victoria sponge only has cream and jam, no icing!! Perhaps a little sprinkle of icing sugar counts as a type of minimalist, post-modern icing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darthfi 2007-10-01 12:15 am UTC (link)
	And then you get people like my husband who, as I merrily belted up the M1 away from London, looked up from his map and said: "I had no idea that the Watford Gap was up here. I thought it was at Watford!" Of course, he'm be a Wurzel and everyone's a damn vurriner to him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	doire 2007-09-25 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Bakewell tarts with icing are for southern sissies; Bakwell pudding is the real thing! <Goes off to pine for proper Bakewell pudding.> (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sheep 2007-09-24 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	For London it's the met. Each city has it's own building, apparently. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aaron_agonistes 2007-09-24 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	White Christmases don't happen! She couldn't afford them as a kid, so they don't exist. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fresco_le_raye 2007-09-24 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	We were posh, and got our White Christmases from Marks & Spencer. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sheep 2007-09-24 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	I'm getting one of those non-extistent buttercream topped birthday cakes from Marks and Spencer for my birthday next week! Mmmmmmm!!! Obviously, this means I'm a Dursley and not a Weasley, never mind that the cake isn't even that expensive. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2007-09-24 10:44 pm UTC (link)

Honestly, seriously, I just cannot get over the "Only Dursleys eat buttercream! Weasleys would never OMG!" thing. Because nothing screams "homemade cake" to me like buttercream frosting (icing, whatever) and the Dursleys would want fancy, right? Buttercream is so not fancy.

Also, I would like to lick buttercream icing off Ron Weasley's abs. Or most any of the other Weasley boys. Or Ginny. I'm not all that picky, so long as they're legal. THAT IS ALL.

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	sheep 2007-09-24 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	Well, you can't have the butter-cream on top of any of them, far to posh, you have to sandwich it between two of them ;p I just realised in that comment I said my birthday was next week when it's this week. One day closer to being a year older :( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

puipui
2007-09-24 11:01 pm UTC (link)

My god, it would be like an Oreo made of Weasleys. And then you twist it apart and lick the cream parts out first and then scrape at the chocolatey Weasley bits with your teeth and then eat them! Wow, I never realized how much eating an Oreo sounds like porn.

Actually, no, that's a lie, I totally realized that eating an Oreo is just like porn. XD

My birthday is Wednesday! Get off my lawn! *shakes cane*

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	dez_chan 2007-09-26 06:23 am UTC (link)
	White Christmases are such a working class thing, apparently. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2007-09-24 09:46 pm UTC (link)
	I will gladly take your lemon icing off your hands, er, cake. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fresco_le_raye 2007-09-24 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	You can also add coco powder to it and make it chocolate butter icing! (nice, but tends to leave brown stains around the mouth) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tangentialone 2007-09-25 03:06 am UTC (link)
	OOoooo. makes a note (Reply to this)(Parent)

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