I just don't get Presbyterian food culture

[Diable Rouge]

Mars bar and apple sandwiches on malted bread?

https://twitter.com/brianbrianquinn/status/1232736471049818114

And what are "Fifteens"?

[Lang Spoon]

What The Actual Fuck? I'm guessing dirty dissenter Irish presbos and not yr salt of the Earth normal food Scottish pressbiters.

[Hot Pepsi]

That’s a very different kind of Presbyterian than what I’m familiar with.

[Lang Spoon]

Nordies, man.

[Lang Spoon]

They keep toasters in cupboards, it seems. Perverts.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Stunned.

From the Ulster Herald:

Apple and mars bar sandwiches.
Wash a couple of apples and very finely slice them. Layer the apple onto one side of the bread, finely slice the mars bar and place on top of the apple. Gently press a second slice of bread on top and cut to serve. For a real children's party feel – cut the crusts off!

I mean, I obviously now crave one.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Oh, and as for Fifteens:

A Northern Irish delicacy, these are made with 15 marshmallows, 15 digestive biscuits, 15 glacé cherries, condensed milk and coconut.

[Hot Pepsi]

What is a digestive biscuit?

[San Bernardhinault]

It's relatively closely related to a Graham Cracker. It's got a nicer texture, and is slightly less sweet, but I think that's probably the best comparison.

(Brits use crushed digestives the same way that Americans use crushed graham crackers for cheesecake bases, for example).

[Hot Pepsi]

I see. Sounds like it needs a rebrand.

[ursus arctos]

I would bet that your local well stocked supermarket has them

[Hot Pepsi]

Wegmanns might. Not sure about Weis or Trader Joe’s.

Calling them digestives suggests they’ll taste like Tums.

[ad hoc]

I agree the name is less than appealing unless you've grown up with them. Mind you the same is true of Graham Cracker who sounds like a really bad children's entertainer from the 70s

(Though perhaps less so when using the US pronunciation of Graham)

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Hang on - how do Americans pronounce 'Graham'?

[Moonlight Shadow]

My colleague J fella works for a certain big biscuit brand and we get to try experimental lines of said digestives. The last two experiments were hazelnut digestives and blood orange digestives...

[ad hoc]

Hang on - how do Americans pronounce 'Graham'?

Gram (or Gramme for a more Euro spelling)

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Sheesh.

[ursus arctos]

Not always or everywhere

See, e.g., the Senator from South Carolina or the family of evangelists

[Sporting]

Gram also a shortening of Ingram, as in Parsons?

[ad hoc]

True. I'd overlooked that. Any reason why surnames should be pronounced in the more-familiar-to-me way? Also, having looked up "graham flour" I note that it is named after someone called Sylvester Graham. I wonder if he was /grĉm/ or /greɪəm/

[ursus arctos]

I grew up pronouncing Graham Crackers as you would and still hear that much more often than the variant

[Hot Pepsi]

[DCI Harry Batt]

Lindsey Graham isn't said "gray-um", is he?

[Janik]

I vaguely recall reading somewhere about the origin of the name of digestive biscuits. They were thought to aid digestion, or something like that. Medicinal, like a pint of stout.

[Duncan Gardner]

Never heard of it (the fruit/ chocolate/ wholemeal confection).Sounds gross.

My Ma's side of the family were all Methodists (my brother and uncle were both named Wesley). The Da was a nominal dissenter until he joined the Army- "Sign this form so we know which Padre to call if you get killed"...

OK, Presby...Prebys... Fuck it, C of E

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