Which Would You Find Easier: Baking Christmas Cookies, or Finding a Wife?

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Lanolin

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haha I call them bickies (in nz, a hard baked good is called a biscuit) , typically eaten with a cup of tea. english of course.

Cookies though, need to be eaten with a glass of milk.

Cookies here are chocolate chip, and the best ones you can buy here if you not making them yourself out of smashed toblerones is either Cookie Time cookies or Mrs Higgins. You can heat up these in the microwave for ten seconds so the chocolate melts in your mouth, it always tastes extra good fresh from the oven.


They are expensive though. a tub of christmas cookies was selling for $17 at school, This girl came round selling them...money goes to charity though so its worth the expense, and you can share them around.

top ten biscuits for me
1. chunky chocolate chip cookies
2. gingernuts
3. anzac biscuits
4. girl guides biscuits
5. shrewsberry
6. danish butter shortbread
7. chit chat
8. toffee pops
9. tim tams
10. mallowpuffs

(the last 4 are chocolate covered delights). I never buy them myself Im more of a cracker and chips girl but my older sister was addicted to the chocolate covered ones and I remember her always going for them in the supermarket aisle. when she comes home she always asks for girl guide biscuits. For some reason they dont sell them in the UK, or they just dont taste the same.

if you baking bickies, you gotta use real butter, none of that margarine stuff.
 

true_believer

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Entering into a marriage is a calculated risks. Even at those odds you could be in the 30% - 40% that are happily married. I am a firm believer in nothing ventured nothing gained. It is key to enter into a marriage being 100% committed, if so, the odds are now in your favor.
I appreciate your optimism. But I think one should carefully stack the deck in one's favour before tying the knot.
 

Kireina

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Which Would You Find Easier: Baking Christmas Cookies, or Finding a Wife?


Obviously, Baking Christmas cookies lol 😅
 
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Sure, I could learn how to catch myself a husband BUT, it would be A LOT easier just to find Waldo.
 

tourist

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I grew up in a household in which cookies were never baked and very seldom bought, if ever. As an adult, I am now grateful.

However, I have also adopted a policy of never meeting a cookie that I'm not willing to at least try. :D

But if I'm going to take the splurge, the cookie has to be worth it. I don't like cookies that just taste like a big gulp of flour. They have to have some kind of taste and flavor payoff. I also tend to like chewy, not crispy cookies (it's the same thing for me with pizza.) :D

And indeed, every cookie is different. One chocolate chip cookie might be dry and crumbly, and while might be a little round piece of chocolate chunk heaven on a plate.

I am willing to make the sacrifice in order to try to determine the who's who, the bee's knees, and the cream of the crop amongst any array of cookies that I just might be lucky enough to cross paths with. :)
That's the way the cookie crumbles.
 
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....I recently witnessed a conversation in which a very talented young man, who is no slouch in the kitchen, state that he had stayed up until the wee hours of the morning in order to try to master an advanced level of Christmas Cookie Creations, but to no avail.

Feeling somewhat overwhelmed (or defeated,) he finally declared that he had come to the conclusion that instead of trying to master this level of confectionery skill, "it would be easier just to find a wife."

Lol!

(Unfortunately, that would immediately eliminate some of us ladies right out of the running, seeing as I set off all the smoke detectors in the house yesterday while just trying to seer a pan of burgers.)

So what do you all think? And to be fair, let's make this question "gender-equal."

How would YOU complete this sentence:

"Sure, I could learn _____________________________________________ (insert your idea here, such ask, "how to mow the lawn, cook, clean, do my own laundry, how to do kung fu", etc.) BUT, it would be A LOT easier just to ________________________________________ ("get a husband," "get a wife", "buy all new clothes," "hire a ninja," etc.)

Your answers can be serious or silly, but hopefully, let's have some fun! :)
Confuscious say -- "He who stays up all night trying to bake Christmas cookies is already the best wife he will ever find."

 

Lanolin

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gamblng and marriage...its a numbers game, just as I thought.
Ive never been a punter though.

Confuscious say -- "He who stays up all night trying to bake Christmas cookies is already the best wife he will ever find."

Im currently reading The Analects and I do not find that quote....
 

Lanolin

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I have found this one though

Book XI

6. Nan Jung repeated over and over again the lines about the white jade sceptre. * Confucius gave him his elder brother's daughter in marriage.

*ie. lines from Ode 256

A blemish on the white jade
can still be polished away,
A blemish on these words
cannot be removed at all.