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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
You should visit the Netherlands. You can get fresh stroopwafels on every outdoor market. They make the fresh at their market stall. Though from what I understand the American stroopwafel is different from the Dutch. Here they put a thick syrup (stroop) in between the cookies, in the US they use caramel from what I've heard.
The market stalls also sell bags of cookie crumbs/pieces (no stroop), which are delicious. Now I have to go to the local market on Wednesday to get a bag.
Re pizza:
I've eaten pizza in Sicily when I did a teaching placement there. Best pizzas ever! However, I think the whole outrage of some about pineapple on pizza is invalidated by the fact that they sell pizzas with french fries on them. And, like Hitch, they don't see a frozen pizza as complete; they always add fresh ingredients to it and scoff people who don't do that.
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Oh, no no no. Europe, particularly the Netherlands and other spots, are where I developed my Needs-a-12-Step-Program/Intervention Stroopwaffel addiction and I'm trying to go cold turkey now. Get thee behind me, you Stroopwaffel-peddling Demon!
Seriously, if we get FRESH stroops, yes, they have a syrupy concoction, but "store-boughten" are with caramel, yes. You can see why; it would be impossible to make them, put them together 9with syrup), bag them and ship them around the country with syrup. Just...wouldn't work that well.
One of my Stroop shipments (there are some very few places, around the contry, where you can find them freshly made!) came in with all the caramel in each bunch kinda melted and gooey on the side of the stack of waffels. Didn't care. Heated them lightly in the microwave, pulled them apart and then it was eatin' time! SO BAD. (I love putting them atop my coffee cup in the morning...sigh....)
Hitch