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That's... a really good comparison, actually.

Yeah.

To help you understand, take the cannoli cupcake. It's a delicious cake filled with italian-style sweet cream and chocolate chips, iced with the same cream, and topped with a mini cannoli. If you like cannoli's, it's ridiculously good. I think they toned down the sweetness of the cream some, compared to regular cannolis, to adjust for the quantity, so it's just perfect.

Or you say you like pie? Well, the black forest is a chocolate cupcake filled with cherry pie-style filling, topped with a cherry buttercream, and topped with a drizzle of chocolate ganache.

God, now I want a Crumbs cupcake.

Well, if you're ever in NYC, get your *** into a crumbs. You'll get really excited by cupcakes really quickly.

Ew, why?

California and Oregon are the place to be for beer. Especially around San Diego where the world class breweries seem to grow like mushrooms.

well then. if you ever come visit me i'll have to drag you to Sweet Life. I've never been to NYC so I have no idea how good Crumbs is, but Sweet Life is a really popular patisserie here. They have tarts, cookies, pie, cake, cannolis, pretty much anything you can think of. It's amazing.

We can discuss that with my primary. He'd probably have a good idea about pairings. Way more than I would be in any case.

Anything chocolate-y goes well with the right stout or a sour that's on the sweeter side with a strong cherry flavour.

We're talking pastries, not tacos.

Monteleone in Brooklyn for cheesecake. Best ever.

Edited, Jul 24th 2013 9:20am by lolgaxe

I learned that today as well... Did you learn it on Buzzfeed?

Also, we won New Netherlands fair and square and it's our right to do with the names as we please.

Also, I've been boring my coworkers with stories about William of Nassau all day. They aren't appreciating it, but I'm having fun.

Nope, they captured the territories in the second Anglo-Dutch War (which was otherwise a Dutch victory). The Dutch reclaimed it during the third Anglo-Dutch War, but had to ultimately cede it in light of going bankrupt in simultaneous wars against the British and French.

Yeah, the Dutch originally "purchased" the land from the Natives, in typical colonial fashion. During the second war, which was launched by the English, they were attempting to unify their colonial holdings. So they seized New Amsterdam and Fort Orange, which were logistically important locations. But they didn't seize all Dutch holdings, which allowed the fleet to counterattack in the next war.

Thing is, "captured" was largely because there were only token forces there, and the colonists were not fans of the Dutch leadership, who failed to protect them from native assaults. They didn't receive much better treatment from the British at the time, either, unfortunately. It isn't too hard to understand why New York was a center of patriotism during the revolution.

And with the Dutch Empire being spread too thin, it wasn't much for them to give up their new world holdings. They were always more successful as accountants and middlemen anyway.

Why is it that when digg said he was sick I thought, "well, it sounds like he survived," and when Aeth said it was oppressively hot I thought, "yeah, heat sucks."

But when PT said she was sick I thought, "oh, poor girl, I hope she's O.K. She needs some medical advice. I should make a post on reddit to have people send her free pizza."