It's the SF Mighty Mingle, Part 2! All Are Welcome! A Poll-arizing Poll: Popular Holiday Flavors - Choose Wisely!

[seoulsearch]

Hey Everyone,

I have an idea for a more involved thread in this series, but won't have time to work on it tomorrow so maybe we can try this instead.

It's that time of year again, and I'm just now starting to see ads for baking holiday treats.

I just know this discussion is going to rock worlds, build epic friendships, and shake alliances to the core with its devastating revelations

So... What are your favorite holiday flavors? YouTube sent me some Christmas cookie videos in which people were taking one basic dough and making 15 different kinds of cookies by adding various flavors and candies.

I just thought it would be fun to see what the crowd-pleasers are here -- and which ones would get booted to the North Pole.

The poll will be public (everyone can read each other's answers,) and you can have multiple choices.

The system only allows a certain number of poll options so I won't be able to include everyone's possible favorites.

In fact, I didn't even have space for an "Other" option, so be sure to leave a post telling us about any choices not listed. Please also tell us why you do or don't like certain flavors, and in what form (drinks, cookies, candy, pie, etc.) do you like for them to be in?

I know it's early for a thread like this -- I was originally going to ask about chocolate preferences -- but the holiday baking video convinced me to expand the flavor profile.

So... What flavors do YOU like best, and why?

 

[Gojira]

Hey Everyone,

I have an idea for a more involved thread in this series, but won't have time to work on it tomorrow so maybe we can try this instead.

It's that time of year again, and I'm just now starting to see ads for baking holiday treats.

I just know this discussion is going to rock worlds, build epic friendships, and shake alliances to the core with its devastating revelations

So... What are your favorite holiday flavors? YouTube sent me some Christmas cookie videos in which people were taking one basic dough and making 15 different kinds of cookies by adding various flavors and candies.

I just thought it would be fun to see what the crowd-pleasers are here -- and which ones would get booted to the North Pole.

The poll will be public (everyone can read each other's answers,) and you can have multiple choices.

The system only allows a certain number of poll options so I won't be able to include everyone's possible favorites.

In fact, I didn't even have space for an "Other" option, so be sure to leave a post telling us about any choices not listed. Please also tell us why you do or don't like certain flavors, and in what form (drinks, cookies, candy, pie, etc.) do you like for them to be in?

I know it's early for a thread like this -- I was originally going to ask about chocolate preferences -- but the holiday baking video convinced me to expand the flavor profile.

So... What flavors do YOU like best, and why?

EggNOT?!?

I find yaw lack of faith... disturbing...

 

[Gojira]

To answer your post... I love eggnog, apple pie, turkey, and pretty much any kind of Christmas cookie. I have a friend in NYC who is of Italian descent, and she makes Italian cookies each year and sends them out to her friends.

 

[MsMediator]

Fruits and chocolate (either dark or milk).

 

[Lanolin]

Peppermint...what kind of holiday is that though. A summer holiday?

 

[yoriii]

So... What flavors do YOU like best, and why?

Classic Pineapple Tart with Clove. It's delicious and it has always been the symbol of good fortune.

 

[seekingthemindofChrist]

Hey, seoul.

Let me begin by saying that this thread is a welcome relief from your recent "pole-arising" (He didn't! Oh, yes, he did! ) threads about pornography.

When I became a Christian (B.C....lol), I stopped celebrating secular holidays, so I almost always spend them alone. Even so, I do normally incorporate certain things into my diet around Thanksgiving or Christmas which remind me of my youth (around the same time when Moses was tending his father-in-law's flocks).

I always try to have some pumpkin pie, with or without whipped cream, and I also try to have some cranberry sauce, which I love. In fact, I drink cranberry juice almost every day (there is some in my refrigerator as I type).

Pumpkin spice?

Sometimes, in the form of a candle.

Cinnamon?

Again, sometimes, in the form of a candle or incense.

Gingerbread?

I am down for some good gingerbread cookies if anybody has some. I especially enjoy biting the heads off of gingerbread men. It helps me to fulfill my fantasy of biting the heads off of some people here in the BDF...lol.

That is about all that I have to say.

Well, except this:

LET'S EAT!

 

[Lynx]

Eggnog/boiled custard for the win!

Winn Dixie used to be my favorite grocery store chain, because they would carry eggnog ALL YEAR LONG!

A couple years ago my favorite brand vanished, and I couldn't find any other brands that didn't have things like spray-dried egg yolks, skim milk and high fructose corn syrup, so I learned to make my own. And I've been making my own ever since. Got a jug of boiled custard in the fridge right now.

It's like a mug of creamy melted ice cream...

 

[tourist]

EggNOT?!?

I find yaw lack of faith... disturbing...

...amusing though.

 

[tourist]

Eggnog/boiled custard for the win!

Winn Dixie used to be my favorite grocery store chain, because they would carry eggnog ALL YEAR LONG!

I enjoy Egg/NOT too during the Thanksgiving / Christmas holiday season. If I was still a drinking man I would probably add a splash of rum to it, topped with nutmeg. Occasionally, in Florida I would shop at Winn Dixie but found their produce to be less than fresh. Bought my Egg/NOT from Publix. I find your reference to eggnog/boiled custard a bit disconcerting.

 

[Gojira]

...amusing though.

 

[tourist]

 

[Gojira]

I hate you both... in the most loving possible way.

 

[Tall_Timbers]

Vanilla would be my holiday and year round flavor. Fruits would be berries, mango., nectarine, watermelon.

When I lived in North Pole, fresh fruit was hard to come by, but we'd collect wild blueberries and low bush cranberries and freeze those. We had salmon berries on our property but a certain neighbor considered them fair game and was often first to harvest them.

 

[seoulsearch]

EggNOT?!?

I find yaw lack of faith... disturbing...

I hate you both... in the most loving possible way.

If we ever DO have another "shipping" thread, I'm shipping Gojira with the Timeout Box.

 

[seoulsearch]

Classic Pineapple Tart with Clove. It's delicious and it has always been the symbol of good fortune.

Wow! I would have never thought to pair pineapple with clove (but then again, unfortunately, I don't have a very wide culinary repertoire.)

A pineapple tart sounds divine. I would love to try one someday -- thank you so much for sharing!

This is what I enjoy most about these threads -- hearing what other people like, and discovering possible new favorites.

 

[seoulsearch]

Vanilla would be my holiday and year round flavor. Fruits would be berries, mango., nectarine, watermelon.

When I lived in North Pole, fresh fruit was hard to come by, but we'd collect wild blueberries and low bush cranberries and freeze those. We had salmon berries on our property but a certain neighbor considered them fair game and was often first to harvest them.

This is really interesting.

How long did you live in the North Pole? How did you like it there?

Sorry to hear about the neighbor, grrr...

Sounds even worse than the deer that ate your roses.

 

[Tall_Timbers]

This is really interesting.

How long did you live in the North Pole? How did you like it there?

Sorry to hear about the neighbor, grrr...

Sounds even worse than the deer that ate your roses.

5 years in North Pole. Then I moved north of Fairbanks. It was fun to have a North Pole address. I never chastised the neighbor because I was very friendly with them. Though I would have liked to have had my harvest of Salmonberries, I was glad that a friend and neighbor was enjoying them. They were an interesting family. They continuously brought trouble upon themselves. For example, leaving a garage door open or a window open in the middle of winter in one of the coldest places on the planet... It seemed to be one thing after another. I loved Alaska and have lived the majority of my life in interior Alaska. Just moved from there a few months ago.

 

[seoulsearch]

5 years in North Pole. Then I moved north of Fairbanks. It was fun to have a North Pole address. I never chastised the neighbor because I was very friendly with them. Though I would have liked to have had my harvest of Salmonberries, I was glad that a friend and neighbor was enjoying them. They were an interesting family. They continuously brought trouble upon themselves. For example, leaving a garage door open or a window open in the middle of winter in one of the coldest places on the planet... It seemed to be one thing after another. I loved Alaska and have lived the majority of my life in interior Alaska. Just moved from there a few months ago.

You're a better person that I am, Tall.

I would have seen those berries as little gold nuggets and would have been like, "OH NO, Mister, those are all MINE, MINE, MINE!!!

Kind of like this:



The "double" MINE MINE's are twice as effective!


I have always loved to write paper letters and it would have been the FLEX of all flexes to be able to put, "The North Pole. No Really, THE NORTH POLE!!!" as my return address.

A lot of people in the pen pal community collect postmarks as well, so that would have been a real prize.


My goodness. It sounds like your neighbors... Never liked to have a dull moment, that's for sure.

Sounds like you've had a fascinating life!

We're looking forward to hearing more about it.

 

[Lanolin]

Vanilla would be my holiday and year round flavor. Fruits would be berries, mango., nectarine, watermelon.

When I lived in North Pole, fresh fruit was hard to come by, but we'd collect wild blueberries and low bush cranberries and freeze those. We had salmon berries on our property but a certain neighbor considered them fair game and was often first to harvest them.

what, you lived at the North Pole? Are you...Santa?