[Mishmash] Ginger Beer and Arnott's Cookies

[David Brown]

Pommy is Australian for Englishman.  I don't know the exact history but I
have heard that it is an acronym for Person Of MotherEngland.  We call them
a lot of things: Poms, Pommy Bastards (if they beat us at cricket which is
not likely) and so on.

 

From: mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net [mailto:mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net]
On Behalf Of Fred Atkinson
Sent: Monday, 5 February 2007 10:20 AM
To: Mishmash
Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Ginger Beer and Arnott's Cookies

 

    By the way, David, 

 

        What does 'Pommy' mean?  

 

 

                                                                    Fred 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: David Brown <mailto:djbrown at tpg.com.au>  

To: 'Mishmash' <mailto:mishmash at mishmash.net>  

Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 5:25 PM

Subject: Re: [Mishmash] Ginger Beer and Arnott's Cookies

 

Hi Fred

 

I think ginger beer is actually a Pommy thing that we adopted.  Real ginger
beer is good stuff.

 

Ginger nut biscuits are hard with a strong ginger taste.  They are great
dunked in a cup of tea.  

 

Arnott's was a famous Australian brand.  It had an Eastern Rosella as its
logo.  A very pretty parrot.  It was taken over by an American company some
years back which I guess is why their products are appearing on your
shelves.  Look out for iced vovos.  These are little biscuits with a stripe
of raspberry jam and two stripes of strawberry icing, all sprinkled with
coconut.  My favourites.

 

Cheers

 

David

 

From: mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net [mailto:mishmash-bounces at mishmash.net]
On Behalf Of Fred Atkinson
Sent: Saturday, 3 February 2007 1:39 PM
To: Mishmash
Subject: [Mishmash] Ginger Beer and Arnott's Cookies

 

Folks, 

 

    I had my first taste of Australian Ginger Beer at our Australian Bakery
Cafe here in Marietta, Georgia.  It is the Australian alternative to our
ginger ale.  And I must say that I like their ginger beer better than ginger
ale.  

 

    I also got some cookies made by Arnott's called Ginger Nut.  I love the
taste of them but they are a bit hard to bite into.  Perhaps Leanne, Robyn,
or David could tell me if this is normal for those cookies or not.  

 

    They have a bunch of Arnott's products on their shelves.  

 

    Regards, 

 

 

 

                                                                    Fred 

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