On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 21:44, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:11:29PM -0500, Seth Nickell wrote: > > > And to conclude - it's great to have an i18n-able terminal, but my > > > experience with it has been like wading through treacle: extraordinarily > > > frustrating. > > > > Ever since reading some of P.G. Wodehouse's excellent book series on > > Wooster and Jeeves I have wondered this. What is treacle, and what are > > its uses (other than to be used in breaking and entering)? > > Heh. :-) The more traditional use is as an ingredient in cooking. There > are some cultural barriers in place here, so Telsa or one of the Irish > Sun guys might have a different answer, but in Australia the thing > called treacle is similar to a very thick form of maple syrup (and much > more sickly sweet). However, over here, it is reasonably uncommon and we > tend to substitue "golden syrup", which is slightly different again, I > have been led to understand. I always thought of treacle as a little thicker than golden syrup, and not maple flavoured. I think its made out of cane syrup. I think. I found a close aproximation of golden syrup in Safeway here in the US. Now I need to make pikelets. Ian (aussie ex-pat)
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