Public Address | Cafe | Busytown: I Sold My Soul to Santa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address daleaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38705#post38705 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38705#post38705 A couple of centuries ago, mincemeat did indeed have minced meat in it, along with the suet, spices and some dried fruit. Gradually the meat quantities got smaller and the fruit got larger and mincemeat jumped courses and took its present form.

As for vegetable suet, haven't you ever had…

]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:50:30 +1300 Max Call https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38699#post38699 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38699#post38699 we do the 'small' gift from Santa too for the same reason as you Jolisa.
I have faced some very intense questioning from my youngest (8yrs) the last few weeks. She knows the tooth fairy aint real (I got caught – doh!). She keeps asking if Santa is real or…

]]> Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:26:11 +1300 Amy Gale https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38603#post38603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38603#post38603 Q: What do you get when you cross Nigella's suggested pomegranate pav topping with the NZ-compulsory kiwifruit?

A: Trad holiday colors! Without even trying! Woohoo!

I love pomegranates in any case, but they really do turn out to be particularly good as a counterpoint to pavlova. Plus, gram-for-gram, probably a…

]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:13:08 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38528#post38528 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38528#post38528 I think it's really important to be really honest with kids – later on having them believe you becomes much more important – now they're teenagers I feel it's paying off – they do listen to us when we give nuanced talks about alcohol and drugs (not just the 'everything… ]]> Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:18:05 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38525#post38525 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38525#post38525 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:20:13 +1300 Kirsten Brethouwer https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38522#post38522 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38522#post38522 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:44:52 +1300 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38520#post38520 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38520#post38520 I'm not sure which was more fun when me and my sister were kids – believing Santa was real, or maintaining the pretense later on for fun (and to ensure that an additional source of presents didn't dry up).

It's obviously a personal choice. One of my high school teachers…

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:53:58 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38519#post38519 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38519#post38519 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:17:56 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38508#post38508 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38508#post38508 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:04:19 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38507#post38507 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38507#post38507 In a fit of honesty I once explained to my then maybe 6yr old about Santa – he came back from the mall a few days later and announced that I was full of crap, he'd seen Santa and he was real.What is it with grinchy adults? Children use fantasy… ]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:17:55 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38506#post38506 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38506#post38506 In a fit of honesty I once explained to my then maybe 6yr old about Santa – he came back from the mall a few days later and announced that I was full of crap, he'd seen Santa and he was real.

I left it at that – Santa kept…

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:54:33 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38504#post38504 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38504#post38504 real people give you presents, and cards, and you're allowed to stay up late and eat lots of cakes and lollies you're never… ]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:32:28 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38503#post38503 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38503#post38503

Craig, do you have one of those mega-huge BBQ grills my friend calls the "Darth Vader"?

God no – 1) nowhere to put it, 2) would rather spend the money of effete pleasures like DVDs and books, and, 3) when the hell am I ever going to eat a spit-roasted…

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:20:28 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38502#post38502 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38502#post38502 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:34:37 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38501#post38501 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38501#post38501

But is he worried about the sky falling on his head?

Not so far, but he is developing a taste for wild boar. Or at least a yearning to taste wild boar.

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:32:47 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38500#post38500 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38500#post38500

the aircraft carrier has to be wheeled into the garage due to high wind and rain.

Craig, do you have one of those mega-huge BBQ grills my friend calls the "Darth Vader"?

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:30:36 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38499#post38499 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38499#post38499 Cheesecake... trifle... brandy cream! Cricket in the backyard! You lucky buggers. We successfully pulled together a last-minute feast – an insanely huge turkey of which we ate perhaps 10% and will parcel out the rest to friends.

And then the world's best ever pav. No fights about its origin (cheers…

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 03:30:22 +1300 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38497#post38497 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38497#post38497

Go out and get some sunshine!

What's that? Barbecue loses it's charm somewhat, then the aircraft carrier has to be wheeled into the garage due to high wind and rain.

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:05:13 +1300 daleaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38494#post38494 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38494#post38494 Here ya go:
http://www.sweetideas.co.nz/Resource+Centre/The+Pavlova.html

Helen Leach has discovered the New Zealand origins of Anzac Biscuits as well. We'll let the Aussies have Lamingtons, and they can keep Russell Crowe as well.

]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:20:20 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38493#post38493 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38493#post38493 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:16:44 +1300 richard https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38492#post38492 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38492#post38492 It is a shame for Santa cultists that the name "Santeria" is already taken, I guess.

But speaking of the jolly red gentleman, the equations at the bottom of this Norad Tracks Santa video describe the increase in mass of an object moving close to the speed of light, which is…

]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 05:02:54 +1300 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38491#post38491 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38491#post38491 Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:59:26 +1300 Idiot Savant https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38490#post38490 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38490#post38490 You forgot Mithras (video from QI, which I watched this afternoon). For the curious, there's a bit more here, but it sounds like its rather more in dispute (but so is everything when academics start looing at it :)

Funny, his only other knowledge of gods comes from Astérix: "By…

]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:47:52 +1300 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38489#post38489 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38489#post38489 Our Xmas day is finishing as yours begins Jolisa. Best wishes to you and your family.

My father has spent the recent evening bravely trying to finish a massive pavlova, with cream (he got about 3/4 of the way around), while the rest of us sensibly focus our attention on…

]]> Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:28:42 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38488#post38488 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-i-sold-my-soul-to-santa/?p=38488#post38488 Discussion from blog post.

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