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To their credit, I had sweet potato french fries with lunch yesterday... delicious!

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We'd ask you the same thing about Kawfee Krisps.

The green bean casserole is so overwhelmingly easy to make, but still has the pretense of being a substantial sidedish, that it's become an US icon.

Eh?

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low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com

He didn't just "dis" the coffee Crisp did he? oh no - OH NO HE DI'NT!

i actually found a store that carries them here in SF. (i have one freezing into a log of FLAVORGASIC joy - to have crumbled over vanilla ice cream soon)

soon my pretty - very soon!

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I haven't sampled them. Yet. And if they have chocolate in them, I'm sure I'd love em!

But then again, I was the naive one during a 1994 trip to England that bought a bunch of Toblerone (sp?) candy back, thinking it was exotic, only to find that it was a staple in the U.S.

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airporter.livejournal.com

Ingredients
SUGAR, WHEAT FLOUR, MODIFIED PALM AND VEGETABLE OILS, MODIFIED MILK INGREDIENTS,

UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER

, SOYA LECITHIN, LACTOSE, COFFEE, SODIUM BICARBONATE, POLYGLYCEROL POLYRICINOLEATE, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOUR. MAY CONTAIN SALT, COCOA POWDER AND YEAST.

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We'd ask you the same thing about Kawfee Krisps.

Coffee Crisp is a reminder sent to earth by God that He forgives our sins and there is indeed a Heaven. If I were a priest, I'd mass would be served with Coffee Crisp and Coke Classic. Our parishioners could heave each service simultaneously cleansed of their sins and with a light sugar buzz.

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Oh, and I think you meant "Why does it enthrall

allanh so much?" I just giggle when I see it at a potluck, sort of like the tortilla cream cheese green chile rollups that are so prevalent here.

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You'll have to try Paula Deen's version.

I've always made fun of green bean casseroles, but this particular recipe ...

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qnetter

We just added four kinds of fresh mushrooms, sauteed in garlic, to the plain-vanilla version this year, and put the cheesy variety of the French's onions on top... Yum. (LOMLFOML got compliments for the beans themselves, by one of the guys who made his version from scratch to somewhat less satisfying results. "Straight from the can," he replied...)

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trawnapanda.livejournal.com

you put vanilla into green bean casserole?

how very peculiar.

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qnetter

Yuk. Yuk.

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My arteries don't like Paula Deen. My taste buds aren't too thrilled with her either but are more forgiving.

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jss

Have you tried her Krispy Kreme bread pudding?

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I'll see your observation and raise you one:

What is it about Kraft Macaroni & Cheese that enthralls Canadians to the point of becoming an integral part of the Canadian lexicon? ("KD")

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brunorepublic.livejournal.com

It's cheap and filling. :)

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qnetter

So are styrofoam peanuts, but...

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Up until the currency exchange rate reversal ... so were a number of Canadians I know. :)

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airporter.livejournal.com

Pull in your claws...we're just very friendly.

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To me, KD is student food: when you have $5 to feed your self with for a semester, it's the Canuck equivalent of Ramen noodles.

By the same token, Ikea is now just studentware in my mind... I'd never have the stuff in my house now that I have a real income.

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Now you're scaring me! Danny's all hot to go to an Ikea if one ever opens here...I've never been to one. I thought I was old enough and had enough wherewithall now that we'd buy pre-assembled, but I understand you have to put all their stuff together!

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Ikea is swedish for "some assembly required." There were five in the greater Toronto area. The Ivar shelving is great for workshops and toolrooms but I'm not fond of much else.

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With careful shopping, IKEA yields some good buys on basic furniture. I think it takes at least one or two trips through the store to figure out exactly where their limitations become apparent, but what they do well, they do very well and very inexpensively.

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airporter.livejournal.com

It's called a college budget, hon.

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dakoopst.livejournal.com

I LOVE it!

Love it, love it, love it!

Love. It!

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So when one goes hunting for

dakoopstes --in the appropriate season when they're at their peak, of course-- it would be most advantageous to bait the snare traps with green bean casserole? So noted! :-)

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westwind-mv.livejournal.com

Part of the mystique is that it's a food we usually only get once a year. For good or ill, it is linked with family get-togethers and the whole holiday mishegas.

For me personally, I love the combination of the creamy mushroom soup base and the starchy fullness of the beans, with a hint of crunchiness from the onions. I didn't have any this year (we had dim sum for Thanksgiving), and I definitely missed it.

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Dim sum is ALWAYS appropriate.

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musicbearmn.livejournal.com

Keith has banned it from our Thanskgiving, so, in at least one Yankee household, it's non existent...

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dendren.livejournal.com

it's the fabulous crunchy fried onion rings. We're all about the fried. In fact, if we could make green been casserole without the annoying vegetables, that would be even better

;)

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jss

Um, you can: a bowl of cream-of-mushroom soup with a crispy fried onion topping.

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dendren.livejournal.com

grin... ok, fine, pull logic out of the can :)

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greyguy-sf.livejournal.com

Human bodies love (or crave) salt and fat, and the green bean casserole gives both in quantity. The green beans themselves are just a vehicle.

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