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Dont worry Isabel! Dunno how Raymond treats his, but I *never* beat a flounder. (I just kill them.)
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Oh do trust me Isabel, I treat flounders with respect (sort of how I treat people)
Only these end up on my plate -
[punching holes in hamburger buns]
When you think about it, you could pretty much do doughnuts in the same way. Even easier, non-ringed doughnuts. Just add icing!
We already have that! Depending on the icing flavour/decor, you get either a raspberry bun or a Sally Lunn.
Or are those becoming a lost art, going the way of the cheese'n'onion sandwich?
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I call paninis "pretentious toastie pies"
Ah, see, to me a toastie pie is distinguished by having sealed edges.
A panino (which is what I ask for, and have yet to be corrected fwiw) is non-sealed and has ridgy bits and ideally contains at least one vaguely Italian item. A toasted sandwich is non-sealed and has no ridgy bits. I am also prepared to call a toasted sandwich a "grilled cheese" in order to accommodate AmE-only speakers, but secretly I pity them. -
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Depending on the icing flavour/decor, you get either a raspberry bun or a Sally Lunn.
I once saw a Sally Lung - at least that was what it was labelled as - in a cake shop window in Petone. About 16cm in diameter, to the best of my recollection, with pink icing, detailed with the regulation dessicated coconut. Big mother non-ringed donut.
Probably related to pink buns, aka "punk buns", the staple food of the punks in Anne Kennedy's Jewel's Darl - "F and C's too nutritious for them".
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I once saw a Sally Lung - at least that was what it was labelled as - in a cake shop window in Petone.
Ah, yes, eggcorns are almost as important a part of the trad NZ cake shop as depressing plain-looking slices that you can't imagine anyone ever buying.
My favourite, from a long ago trip to Te Puke: "Try Our New Bay Maree".
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Saw a sign "Boysenberryries for Sale" in Upper Moutere a few weeks ago.
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I once saw a Sally Lung - at least that was what it was labelled as - in a cake shop window in Petone. About 16cm in diameter, to the best of my recollection, with pink icing, detailed with the regulation dessicated coconut.
Sally Lunn is one of those terms that breaks the country, though I can't remember exactly what it is. It's a northern term, which doesn't appear south of Christchurch or something?
I maintain that Sally Lunns only have white icing, red icing is something entirely different.
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Sally Lunn is one of those terms that breaks the country,
I think it might divide us from the rest of the world, as well. I can't tell with cursory Googling whether Australia is with us on this one, but most of the world seems to use the term to describe a delicate white bread, possibly with no raisins (yay) but definitely with no dodgy icing/coconut topping (boo).
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We always knew it as a coffee bun and they were a real treat, sliced with butter, because they were bought from a shop, not homemade (1/6 they cost I remember at the shop near our primary school). And yes they had the occasional sultana. Sally Lunn was what the South Islanders called them, like the crib/bach divide.
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About 16cm in diameter, to the best of my recollection, with pink icing, detailed with the regulation dessicated coconut.
Isn't that a Boston bun?
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Isn't that a Boston bun?
The pink-ness? Or the icing+coconut-ness?
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Ah, can't do better than consult our Dr Hay.
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Sally Lunn was what the South Islanders called them, like the crib/bach divide.
No, definitely the other way around. According to me (grew up in Auckland) and Dr Hay, linked to by Amy.
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I do also now recall that "coffee bun" was in fairly common usage in my 70s/80s Wellington childhood.
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At the last kids' birthday event I attended the resident guinea pigs were treated to a quarter of a sally lunn. They enthusiastically licked the icing off and clamoured for more. For whatever it's worth, the icing was pink.
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From my Auckland perspective, a Sally Lunn is oval with white icing and coconut, and a Boston Bun is circular with pink icing.
The NZ Sally Lunn bears little resemblance to the Sally Lunn bun as produced by the Sally Lunn bakery in Bath.
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From my "Aucklander for the last 30 years, but actually Australian" perspective....
Sally Lunn is unheard of in Melbourne and possibly all Australia? They are called Boston Buns, and only come in white, never pink.
On arriving in NZ.... Boston Bun was unheard of, and Sally Lunn was the appropriate name to use for a pink or a white one.... "pink bun" was also used (for pink ones, duh), but there was no equivalent "white bun" descriptor in use..
I may be mistaken, but in my expeience, "Boston bun" has only come into NZ usage through the Australian franchise "Baker's Delight" not changing the name to suit the local market. (ie. unheard of until the last decade or so)?
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Boston bun was used for large roundish flattish buns with coconut-sprinkled pink icing in my Christchurch childhood. They didnt have any fruit in them. We didnt know anything as a Sally Lunn.
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O, I was born in the late 1940s-
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Well, I'd be wrong, then... not the first time, either! :)
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Boston bun was used for large roundish flattish buns with coconut-sprinkled pink icing in my Christchurch childhood.
Those things, white or pink, as sold at the PNBHS prefects' room canteen (who also sold cassette copies of new albums as I recall....I can't recall anyone thinking or understanding it was wrong!) in the early 1970s were all Sally Lunns.
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As someone way uptread pointed out, it's another example of North v. South dialectual words...luncheon sausage, pottles, flagons, cribs - there's quite a few of them (especially when you throw in fish names...)
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luncheon sausage
I've lived in Dunedin since 1993, and it was only this year (from my girlfriend, who has lived here since the 60s) that I heard of this alternative.
Certainly, some of these regional differences are stronger than others.
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luncheon sausage
Wait. I have always called it luncheon sausage. What are we Dorklanders meant to call it?
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