Two good facts

[kaberett]

Courtesy of emperor, approximately 0.1% of all Grade I Listed Buildings in England are fences in Cambridge.

Courtesy of D, Strudel is fucked-up baklava. (Though as for "Purists say that it should be so thin that you can read a newspaper through it", pff, purists nothing, of course it bloody should everyone knows that, alRIGHT you can stop sniggering the back.)

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[kaberett]

fucked-up giant apple baklava

I can't

I actually can't

this is brilliant

[vass]

This is one of those "purists say" things that is like "purists say it's ANZAC biscuits, not ANZAC cookies, and they don't have sultanas or nuts or spices in" things (no, not purists, ALL OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND, it is ACTUALLY THE LAW HERE), or "purists say a drabble has exactly 100 words (that is WHAT MAKES IT A DRABBLE, not just a very short story), right?

You'd have to fuck up baklava pretty heroically to end up with strudel.

[kaberett]

it is apparently several hundred years of pretty heroic fuck-up, starting with "hey, that weird pastry they make over there, what happens if we take out all the syrup and fill it with APPLES INSTEAD"

it's beautiful

[vass]

I am SO IMPRESSED that they spent hundreds of years dedicatedly fucking up baklava until they got it Just Wrong, and the end result was strudel. What a delicious fuckup.

[kaberett]

(kindly ignore this comment, I'm testing something about how broken Outlook is...)

[kaberett]

And it's... not actually a law or anything, but it is... fundamentally... how you make strudel? that's what you have to do with the dough? so I'm just sort of baffled.

[naath]

I expect you could make something very like strudel with inferior pastry that was overly thick... I wouldn't know though, I'm too rubbish to make any sort of pastry at all.

Strudel is amazing though mmmmmm strudel, I am glad baklava got fucked up in just the right way.

[davidgillon]

Reading that wiki article on strudels and headcanon is convinced millirahmstrudel should glow in the dark and set off Geiger counters ;)

(cf millirems for those who aren't science nerds)

[kaberett]

nah "Rahm" is a nasty Northern word, where I'm from we call it Obers!