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Erik_Kowal wrote: ↑Mon Dec 14, 2020 11:20 pm The description is only an approximation description of the shape, and not to be taken too literally.

I would also think so!
Exactly!

Good to see that you also like raisins!

Good for him!

Who goes to hell - as far as those pious Bible Christians are concerned?

I suspect: EVERYBODY - except those maga-super-over-ÜBER-pious Bible Christians.

Am I right?

Phil White wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:49 am Do keep well, everyone!

Thank you - and same to you!

Stay in good health - or: Bleib gesund!

gdwdwrkr wrote: ↑Thu Feb 27, 2020 4:56 pm It has a Yiddish sound but may be ersatz.

I also thought it was Yiddish, but it isn't.

Do you wear daffodils or leek?

When reading a title like "taking the high road" I always think of the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond.

I was a baker in my early career. There is a lot of cross-over and some confusing definitions regarding different types of baked goods and many differing opinions about exactly what these different terms mean. I apprenticed under an Englishman and here's how it broke down in our little bakery.... P...

And: Thank you for your answers in this thread!

I have also posted my question there:

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads ... t-18701700

Now I see that some awful type of narrow-minded killjoy Mod has deleted half of my postings there.

I hope and a trust you are more open-minded here.

Phil White wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 6:44 pm I am probably the worlds least qualified person to answer this, as I rarely, if ever, eat pastries, buns or cakes - apart from a very occasional croissant, although the last one would have been about twelve years ago.

So maybe some-one else could help us both?

Danish pastry - and Rosinenschnecke Danish pastry Danish pastry with apricots and cinnamon Presuming that it is like a Rosinenschnecke. Most of these Teilchen are called "Danish" or "Danish pastry" in GB. Why Danish I have no idea, but that's what my parents always order when we're in a German café ...

Jonathon Green wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 1996 7:00 am
If slang lexicograopher Eric Partridge is correct, then so too is the suggestion that brass tacks is indeed rhyming slang for 'facts'.

Let us not forget:

On the first day of Christmas,
my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

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