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Andee Scarantino's avatar

The Tao says "stop thinking and end your problems." ✨ 👌🏻 ⛏️

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

I LOVE that.

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Jessica Miller's avatar

Speaking from someone who is constantly cowering at the mere thought of the unknown - I needed this push today!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I almost stopped reading after hundreds and thousands. I wish Canadian English had a name for sprinkles as cool as that.

As for autonomy, you're right. It's crazy what you can do when you stop thinking about how big it is and just do it.

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

Do you just use sprinkles?!

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

Yup, just sprinkles.

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Kylie Davis's avatar

Resident Aussie here. I can confirm that not only are Hundreds and Thousands really a thing, but we have 'fairy bread' at kids birthday parties which is essentially hundreds and thousands sprinkled on white buttered bread with crusts optional. It's the height of sophistication. Obviously, it's really just an excuse to put coloured sugar on bread, but together with red cordial, it can really get a seven year old's party going.

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

I am fascinated!!!! So, this isn’t like a cupcake or cake with sprinkles in it; it’s a salty bread with sprinkles?! MY MIND IS BLOWN.

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Andrea Featherstone's avatar

Correct, fairy bread is like a budget cake 😂 Often you butter the soft white bread, press the sprinkles into the butter, then use cookie cutters to cut the bread into stars or heart shapes.

Goes well with a “cheese hedgehog” (Google it, you won’t be disappointed).

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

I feel like this is something I am going to have to try before I die—possibly with a bottle of white wine!!!! 😉 You just do that and then what? Put it in the oven?

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Andrea Featherstone's avatar

Bake the cheese hedgehog? Definitely not... not the fairy bread either... it’s legit just budget white supermarket bread with butter and hundreds and thousands, the end.

Please do try it and report back in a blog post, ideally with a gif of the moment you realise that Kiwis and Aussies are culinary GODS for creating such a delicacy

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

I bet this hundreds and thousands phenomenon is something billions of people will die without ever knowing 😂😂 I feel privileged!

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Jennifer Hoskins's avatar

I got distracted from metaphorical kitchens but on that subject, the other thing is that if you start, you get momentum and want to keep going, sometimes to the point you have to remind yourself to eat and sleep and stuff (if you are as all-or-nothing as me). And an overlooked benefit is the exponential nature of abundance. I planned a garden five years ago. The part I actually planted with very small plants five years ago is now looking fabulous, the rest is not. Plant a business idea now instead of five years hence and you'll have given it five extra years to grow, because money does work like trees even if it stubbornly refuses to grow on them.

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Daniela Stow's avatar

hahahaha!!! 100s and 1000s are indeed the round ones that go on top of cakes, and sometimes soft serve ice cream ;) We most often use them on "fairy bread" which is a kid's party favourite! It's the BOMB! You take the shittiest white bread, cover it in butter, then cover the butter COMPLETELY with 100s and 1000s...cut into triangles and voila, party on a plate!

The colourful, or single coloured, sprinkles I've always called sprinkles or "chocolate logs". My grandfather used to call it "covering it in ants" when we were putting them on ice cream though ;)

P.S. I've always called a crowbar a crowbar but we do say "to jimmy something open" as a description of prying something open the way you would with a crowbar so perhaps my parents simply missed this small, but clearly significant, connection in my linguistic education.

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

Okay so GOOGLE IS A LITTLE OFF AND MY SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED! 🫢 So you wouldn’t order an ice cream cone like that? 😂 God, I have to get to your part of the world soon!!!!!

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Daniela Stow's avatar

We tend to mean gelati here in Melbourne when we say ice cream. It's been many, many years since I had a soft serve and even then it was only a 50 cent vanilla cone from Maccas with a flake 😆 We don't put any toppings on the gelati because there are so many flavour options anyway.

And fairy bread is truly the best!! Try it. But remember, you must use cheap, supermarket white bread. And enough butter for the sprinkles to stick. Pro tip: place the buttered side into a plate of 100s and 1000s and voila, evenly covered and ready to cut, into triangles. Only works in triangles. So bad, its good!!

When you come I'll take you out for ice cream. Just one scoop though, I'm not Jeff Bazos 😉

Loving reading your musings, Ash xx

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Kristi Keller 🇨🇦's avatar

"Covering it in ants" made my day 😂😂 Grandpas are the best.

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Amanda's avatar

The demolition has never been my concern. It’s the building part that scares the crud out of me.

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

Hahahahahahaha yes that should be VERY interesting. 😂

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Andrea Featherstone's avatar

One of my favourite posts yet! You giant lymph 😂😂 Your brilliant collection of meat & hair insults is shining through all your posts!

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

LOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes I definitely added that one to my repertoire. 😆 It's a keeper! (And, glad to see you here, A!)

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Andrea Featherstone's avatar

Glad to see you on substack too, you irretrievable mung bean 🥳

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Jennifer Esposito's avatar

Carpe crowbar!

Ash, just WAIT until you get yourself a WET SAW!!!!!!! 💃 💦🔪 (why is there no saw emoji?????)

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Jennifer Hoskins's avatar

Waitaminute. You put candy on ice cream?

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Ash Ambirge's avatar

As someone who spent 8 years in her teens and college years working at an ice cream stand, I am aghast at this sentence! 😲 You know, like...sprinkles?!

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Jennifer Hoskins's avatar

I have clearly been buying ice cream from all the wrong places! I hadn't heard of sprinkles but hundreds and thousands are what I might put on a cupcake if it was 1983, say, and I was bravely hosting a chldren's party in the uk while sporting a helmet-like perm.

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