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Chat => General => Topic started by: on October 13, 2004, 10:00:55 pm

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 13, 2004, 10:00:55 pm

I know it isn't choc, but I see we can discuss other things on here now.

I bought some from an old fashioned sweet shop today, out of a jar.

I had forgotten how addictive this stuff is. Do they lace it with drugs?????

To those unfamiliar with it, it is strands of coconut with a "brown" sugar sprinkled over it.

RIGHT THAT'S IT, I AM AWAY FOR SOME MORE!

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 13, 2004, 11:58:48 pm

I haven't seen spanish gold in a long time but i remember it was addictive. How much have you ate?

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 14, 2004, 09:30:19 am

3/4 of just over a quarter pound bag of it.

Yes Bounty, I know *sigh*. That is what the man in the shop described it as when he weighed it out. Strictly speaking it must be around 550 grams.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 14, 2004, 09:30:54 am

There is loads of the sugar at the base of the bag as well, yum!

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: chocolate chick on October 14, 2004, 10:06:18 am

Mmm yum!

Does anyone remember chocolate crumble? I think it was called that? It was like chocolate, toffee and biscuit all squashed together.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 14, 2004, 09:03:06 pm

Took some to work today.

What a bunch of miserable bastards!

Those that had heard of it said "I don't like it"

Those who hadn't either took one look, a quick sniff or a little taste and said "Oooh, that's horrible"

Free sweets? THEY CAN STICK IT UP THEIR ASS!

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 14, 2004, 09:04:08 pm

I do apologise for the language. I get easily upset!

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 14, 2004, 10:21:46 pm

paulham don't offer to share with them anymore...very ungrateful some people are.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 15, 2004, 09:26:45 am

I don't like metric when it comes to weights.  Ask for a 1/3 of a kg and see what you get.  It's impossible to have exactly 1/3 in metric.

 

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 15, 2004, 01:34:18 pm

why?

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: chocolate chick on October 15, 2004, 02:35:01 pm

I usually say can I have a £1 worth of that please.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 15, 2004, 05:11:56 pm

I do that too. I never ask for anything in weights .I always say how much i want to spend. Easier that way and when i go to the butcher i do the same, i will ask for 6 sausages and 8 rashers of bacon.so much easier.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 15, 2004, 07:44:58 pm

Because 1/3 is a repeating decimal number.  It's not like 1/2 = 0.5 but is 0.33333333333333333333333333333333333333 etc forever, so it's impossible to be sure you've got 0.3333333 and not 0.333333334 or 0.3333333332.

However it's understood that 1/3 is just that - one third, so imperial doesn't have the implicit accuracy of it's decimal equivalent and doesn't have the associated anamoly.

 

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: goldencup on October 15, 2004, 07:46:30 pm

So now we know!

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: marble on October 15, 2004, 08:45:36 pm

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 15, 2004, 10:51:24 pm

bounty you are too clever.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: oldspice on October 15, 2004, 11:01:44 pm

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: chocolate chick on October 16, 2004, 12:37:41 pm

wow...thats a bit much for a saturday morning!

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: aveit101 on October 19, 2004, 12:16:26 pm

u should have offered me some i would quite like to try it

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: on October 19, 2004, 02:13:31 pm

Try your Olde sweet Shoppe.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 19, 2004, 05:52:18 pm

That's polite for buy your own.

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: aveit101 on October 19, 2004, 07:40:44 pm

O.k den i will     i report bk 2 u wit my opinion

Title: Spanish Gold
Post by: loulou on October 19, 2004, 09:24:06 pm

looking forward to that.