Love Holds the Cards
Jun. 22nd, 2012 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyToday I bought a new frying pan. It was an action-packed day.
Here, have a random word:
8. Ripple
This week I asked the random word generator for a verb and it gave me 'to ripple'. That, as I'm sure we all know, means to form or display little undulations or waves on a surface, or to cause such undulations to be formed. That derives from the Middle English 'rippelen', meaning to crease or wrinkle. Also, as I'm sure we all didn't know (I certainly didn't), it means to remove seeds from flax with a comb-like instrument (in other words, a comb). This comes from the Middle English 'ripelen', meaning to remove seeds. Aren't these random words educational?
There is a biscuit in Australia (and possibly elsewhere in the world?) called a Chocolate Ripple. Made by Arnott's, it is an honest, old-fashioned biscuit; a good dunking biscuit and a mildly flavourful treat, chocolate in the sense that it has cocoa powder in it, without going so fancy as a chocolate coating. Its great claim to fame is that it is the basis for the Chocolate Ripple cake, which involves a lot of Chocolate Ripple biscuits held together with whipped cream. Grate a Peppermint Crisp over it, and you have the very hautest of haute cuisine. I haven't seen one of them for years. Looking at the Arnott's site just now, they also have a recipe for a vanilla slice made with Sao biscuits, which would prime my tastebuds for disappointment. (A question for Australian readers: is the Sao the most boring biscuit ever devised? I think it might be.)
But this is about ripples, not biscuits. Ripple is also a charity/search engine thing, so if you google using Google, so you must ripple using Ripple.
Next week: Bopping
Here, have a random word:
8. Ripple
This week I asked the random word generator for a verb and it gave me 'to ripple'. That, as I'm sure we all know, means to form or display little undulations or waves on a surface, or to cause such undulations to be formed. That derives from the Middle English 'rippelen', meaning to crease or wrinkle. Also, as I'm sure we all didn't know (I certainly didn't), it means to remove seeds from flax with a comb-like instrument (in other words, a comb). This comes from the Middle English 'ripelen', meaning to remove seeds. Aren't these random words educational?
There is a biscuit in Australia (and possibly elsewhere in the world?) called a Chocolate Ripple. Made by Arnott's, it is an honest, old-fashioned biscuit; a good dunking biscuit and a mildly flavourful treat, chocolate in the sense that it has cocoa powder in it, without going so fancy as a chocolate coating. Its great claim to fame is that it is the basis for the Chocolate Ripple cake, which involves a lot of Chocolate Ripple biscuits held together with whipped cream. Grate a Peppermint Crisp over it, and you have the very hautest of haute cuisine. I haven't seen one of them for years. Looking at the Arnott's site just now, they also have a recipe for a vanilla slice made with Sao biscuits, which would prime my tastebuds for disappointment. (A question for Australian readers: is the Sao the most boring biscuit ever devised? I think it might be.)
But this is about ripples, not biscuits. Ripple is also a charity/search engine thing, so if you google using Google, so you must ripple using Ripple.
Next week: Bopping