Literally couldn’t disagree more 😂 I wait all year for Panettone season and currently have 5 assorted sizes and types stashed in the spare bedroom 😜😋
Is that because I lived in Sicily when I was seventeen and Panettone was a big part of the celebrations starting on Christmas Eve 🤷♀️ Who knows but I’m now going to buy a flatbed truck and open a Panettone rescue centre!🛻 🍪😋
Yes!! I bake panettone. I love it. Great Britain probably has a better selection, the good stuff from Sicily. I think it's the citron people don't like. I don't use it. Also I make fruitcake. Even people who hate fruitcake like it. My mother used my to say I like "old man" food.
Haha! I love Stollen (and anything with almond paste in it) and I like panettoni as well, but I did enjoy that article. I am probably a Food Philistine lost cause anyway, as I also like those big bars of marzipan covered in chocolate that you can buy in Lidl. I doubt any Guardian reader would admit to that.
Oh dear. I enjoy both stollen and panettone, especially washed down with sherry. Mind you I like anything that has calories in it that will fit in my mouth.
Panettone, I learnt during the Great Panettone Glut in my house a few years ago, makes wonderful bread and butter pudding - ideal for anyone who is trying to put on weight!
Panettone is great. When it’s not the mass produced consumer version you see in stores. Ones from small Italian bakeries, or homemade ones (like I make every year) are a while different animal.
Amusing writing, good promotion for Soylent Green.
I love Panettone, have for decades, and really love fruitcake, since childhood - sliced extremely thin and a dab of crème fraîche.
Now what I gag on is Marzipan anything. I had the trauma of having my husband unwittingly stuff a marzipan rose from a stupefyingly large wedding cake in front of 400 people at the old City Hall courts at Amsterdam for our wedding party a few decades back. I was very aware that this was the first gay wedding of anyone had ever been to, and controlling projectile gagging was a superhuman effort.
The other dessert I really dislike is Bûche de Noël - the idea of a eating something like a colossal dropping of a frighteningly large animal, with I imagine the same consistency, covered with decorations like mushrooms (marzipan, naturally) making it look like the thing is rotting…
I chuckled through this, but I have to admit to being partial to a slice or two of panettone - and stollen (from Lidl). Only problem is, those large ones last forever…in fact I got a bit suspicious about what was as in it when last years panettone seemed to go on for months after I had opened it. February, not a spore of mould and still soft and tasty…
Thank you for the laugh!🤣 I loved your comparisons to wall paper scrapings to Ghandi’s flip flops. I was not offended just chuckled yet I happened to like the nasties you wrote about: especially stollen and paska at Easter! Thx for the laugh!
Literally couldn’t disagree more 😂 I wait all year for Panettone season and currently have 5 assorted sizes and types stashed in the spare bedroom 😜😋
Is that because I lived in Sicily when I was seventeen and Panettone was a big part of the celebrations starting on Christmas Eve 🤷♀️ Who knows but I’m now going to buy a flatbed truck and open a Panettone rescue centre!🛻 🍪😋
Yes!! I bake panettone. I love it. Great Britain probably has a better selection, the good stuff from Sicily. I think it's the citron people don't like. I don't use it. Also I make fruitcake. Even people who hate fruitcake like it. My mother used my to say I like "old man" food.
Hey watch your baking tins lady! You’re dangerously close to breaking the Omerta code of Christmas cake & puddings 🇮🇹🤐🐴 😂🤣😂
Haha! I love Stollen (and anything with almond paste in it) and I like panettoni as well, but I did enjoy that article. I am probably a Food Philistine lost cause anyway, as I also like those big bars of marzipan covered in chocolate that you can buy in Lidl. I doubt any Guardian reader would admit to that.
Oh that sounds good! I will get myself to a Lidl asap.
Oh dear. I enjoy both stollen and panettone, especially washed down with sherry. Mind you I like anything that has calories in it that will fit in my mouth.
I ❤️ panettone! Anyone who doesn’t want theirs can send it to me and I will enjoy huge slices with cups of Barrys Tea. Stollen is delicious too!
Panettone, I learnt during the Great Panettone Glut in my house a few years ago, makes wonderful bread and butter pudding - ideal for anyone who is trying to put on weight!
I actually love Panettone! It’s delicious!
Panettone is great. When it’s not the mass produced consumer version you see in stores. Ones from small Italian bakeries, or homemade ones (like I make every year) are a while different animal.
I can't wait to use this quote: it tastes like Gandhi's flip-flop after three months in the desert.
Glad I’m not alone. What is the point of panettone??
Love stollen though
I love Panettone. It is my Christmas morning breakfast. Panettone and coffee. And because it's Christmas the coffee can be spiked, even at 6am.
I bought one once because it was there on the shelves at Christmas. Catch me doing that again.
Amusing writing, good promotion for Soylent Green.
I love Panettone, have for decades, and really love fruitcake, since childhood - sliced extremely thin and a dab of crème fraîche.
Now what I gag on is Marzipan anything. I had the trauma of having my husband unwittingly stuff a marzipan rose from a stupefyingly large wedding cake in front of 400 people at the old City Hall courts at Amsterdam for our wedding party a few decades back. I was very aware that this was the first gay wedding of anyone had ever been to, and controlling projectile gagging was a superhuman effort.
The other dessert I really dislike is Bûche de Noël - the idea of a eating something like a colossal dropping of a frighteningly large animal, with I imagine the same consistency, covered with decorations like mushrooms (marzipan, naturally) making it look like the thing is rotting…
I chuckled through this, but I have to admit to being partial to a slice or two of panettone - and stollen (from Lidl). Only problem is, those large ones last forever…in fact I got a bit suspicious about what was as in it when last years panettone seemed to go on for months after I had opened it. February, not a spore of mould and still soft and tasty…
I must say, Bindel on bread, however wry, feels like a message from simpler times. Feeling nostalgic. 🥮 🥴
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Thank you for the laugh!🤣 I loved your comparisons to wall paper scrapings to Ghandi’s flip flops. I was not offended just chuckled yet I happened to like the nasties you wrote about: especially stollen and paska at Easter! Thx for the laugh!