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Dutch Crap
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evildoom_bunny out to the wackiest shop yesterday. A warehouse/store in Blackburn of all places called "De Hollandse Winkel" - literally "The Dutch Shop"!
The Dutch have a lot of odd culinary habits, a lot of other downright strange culinary habits, and some mighty wacky clothing. Clogs? Come on! This shop of Wonder had clogs, and whole smoked eels and those weird spiced dutch biscuits, not to mention Ontbijt Koek. And racks and racks of that fucking screwy Dutch liquorice. Who in their right minds thought it'd be a good idea to put salt in liquorice???? It even comes in various levels of saltiness, from insane to triple insane. It's the kind of stuff you'd buy to torture your kids with. Definitely an acquired taste.
Not to mention the pickled cabbage. And the evilest foodstuff I've ever seen (and I've eaten chicken's feet) - pickled brussel sprouts! Talk about taking something disgusting and making it positively satanic.
Anyway, I've got a supply of Speculass now, plus my very own clogs :-)
(BTW, this will probably make more sense when I mention that I'm half Dutch. And that I'm off to a Eurovision song contest party tonight - at which I've chosen to dress like a complete Clog Wog :-)
This shop seems to be doing a great job of making themselves invisible - they're not in the Yellow pages, and I can't find the website they're alleged to have... If you're really keen, I can post their address...
evildoom_bunny out to the wackiest shop yesterday. A warehouse/store in Blackburn of all places called "De Hollandse Winkel" - literally "The Dutch Shop"!The Dutch have a lot of odd culinary habits, a lot of other downright strange culinary habits, and some mighty wacky clothing. Clogs? Come on! This shop of Wonder had clogs, and whole smoked eels and those weird spiced dutch biscuits, not to mention Ontbijt Koek. And racks and racks of that fucking screwy Dutch liquorice. Who in their right minds thought it'd be a good idea to put salt in liquorice???? It even comes in various levels of saltiness, from insane to triple insane. It's the kind of stuff you'd buy to torture your kids with. Definitely an acquired taste.
Not to mention the pickled cabbage. And the evilest foodstuff I've ever seen (and I've eaten chicken's feet) - pickled brussel sprouts! Talk about taking something disgusting and making it positively satanic.
Anyway, I've got a supply of Speculass now, plus my very own clogs :-)
(BTW, this will probably make more sense when I mention that I'm half Dutch. And that I'm off to a Eurovision song contest party tonight - at which I've chosen to dress like a complete Clog Wog :-)
This shop seems to be doing a great job of making themselves invisible - they're not in the Yellow pages, and I can't find the website they're alleged to have... If you're really keen, I can post their address...
