The Drifting Argument Thread

[Gerry Seymour]

Biscuits just can't contain potato of any description, that's against all laws of man, beast and nature.

Potatoes are for making crisps:

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or maybe for making chips:

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Or at a push, boiled (and possibly mashed).

Sweet potatoes aren't even potatoes (on either side of the Pond, I think). And they make a very nice muffin or bread (tea cake and cake respectively, I think, over there).

 

[Buka]

God, I love this place.

 

[pdg]

Based on the link, I think she's making sweet potato scones. I'm not sure what the hell my amaretto scones are, man.

You'd only put anything with 'potato' in the name in scones if you're scottish.

It'd completely ruin the clotted cream and jam otherwise.

 

[pdg]

Sweet potatoes aren't even potatoes (on either side of the Pond, I think). And they make a very nice muffin or bread (tea cake and cake respectively, I think, over there).

Well, they're 'potato' in being an edible tuber, but I think that's as close as they get.

We have muffins, but they're probably different to your muffins judging by how this is going



Oh, teacakes are something else



Sometimes, more than one something else



(biscuit base, marshmallow filling, chocolate coating)

 

[pdg]

We do have another muffin actually:



Not sure about sticking sweet potatoes in it though...

 

[Xue Sheng]

I hate to be stubborn as a mule but the topic appears to have drifted off drifting...

 

[CB Jones]

I hate to be stubborn as a mule but the topic appears to have drifted off drifting...

There is no place for stubbornness within the drifting thread.....dont be obtuse....or are you being acute...I dunno I never was good at geometry...

 

[Gerry Seymour]

You'd only put anything with 'potato' in the name in scones if you're scottish.

It'd completely ruin the clotted cream and jam otherwise.

I don't know. I think clotted cream would work quite nicely on those sweet potato muffin scone things.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Well, they're 'potato' in being an edible tuber, but I think that's as close as they get.

We have muffins, but they're probably different to your muffins judging by how this is going

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Oh, teacakes are something else

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Sometimes, more than one something else

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(biscuit base, marshmallow filling, chocolate coating)

So those two pictures would be different things here. The first would probably be a coffee cake (so, close enough). The other we might even call a cookie, for reasons I do not comprehend.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

We do have another muffin actually:

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Not sure about sticking sweet potatoes in it though...

There's no way that ends well.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

I hate to be stubborn as a mule but the topic appears to have drifted off drifting...

Ironically (again) as soon as I mentioned that it hadn't.

 

[pdg]

There's no way that ends well.

Excuse any odd notifications about this post - apparently I can't aim at the rating buttons on my phone screen today...

My finger kept drifting off track...

 

[Xue Sheng]

There is no place for stubbornness within the drifting thread.....dont be obtuse....or are you being acute...I dunno I never was good at geometry...

HEY!!! no reason to go all tetrahedron...for crying out loud can't you ever keep it equilateral

 

[Xue Sheng]

Ironically (again) as soon as I mentioned that it hadn't.

drifting irony......now you're being stubborn as a mule....what do you have against conversation.....and geometry

 

[Gerry Seymour]

drifting irony......now you're being stubborn as a mule....what do you have against conversation.....and geometry

Listen, you know I'm a stickler for staying on-topic. I just can't abide with folks introducing side-topics in a perfectly well-defined thread. Some people.........

 

[pdg]

you know I'm a stickler

(Best I could do with that one...)

 

[CB Jones]

you know I'm a stickler

You are a wood splitting tool?

And when it come to splitting firewood I prefer a 6 lb maul.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

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(Best I could do with that one...)

At least your drifting is staying on-topic. Or something like that.

 

[Xue Sheng]

At least your drifting is staying on-topic. Or something like that.

I'm staying on topic....topic is defined as "a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation; a subject.".... I can't help it if you have no idea what the subject is....now I have to tell you what it is don't I........ and I am pretty sure I was talking about triangles...Scalene, Isosceles. equilateral

 

[Gerry Seymour]

I'm staying on topic....topic is defined as "a matter dealt with in a text, discourse, or conversation; a subject.".... I can't help it if you have no idea what the subject is....now I have to tell you what it is don't I........ and I am pretty sure I was talking about triangles...Scalene, Isosceles. equilateral

Scalene always sounded like a skin disorder to me.