#I recently ordered a big fuck-off box of their 'kosher salt'
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me: is writing a scene where Steve and Eddie go out and have lunch together at a little restaurant overlooking Lovers Lake and decide to splash out on dessert
me: it would be hilarious if they got pineapple upside-down cake but nah I'm going to look up cakes that were popular in the 1980s, and perhaps some from the 1970s because Hawkins restaurant menus were probably a bit out of touch
me: omfg Watergate Cake
#pineapple upside-down cake is a classic ofc#but I couldn't resist the water gate reference#(for... a scene that I've set in 1985 well before the water gate in Lovers Lake was opened)#also there's something about a cake made with box cake mix pistachio pudding mix a can of 7-Up and Cool Whip w/more pistachio pudding#that just feels appropriate for Eddie#you cannot even make such a cake in New Zealand#it is impossibly exotic to me#yes we have 7-Up and yes we have boxed cake mixes#but COOL WHIP? no#and PISTACHIO PUDDING MIX? no#honestly baffled by what the Americans call 'white cake' and 'yellow cake'#like what FLAVOURS are those? are they vanilla? are they buttery or lemony? or are they just SWEET#so many 'easy' American cake recipes are inaccessible to me#because they call for pre-made ingredients like 'whipped topping' and various pudding/jelly/cake mixtures that just aren't sold here#I make 'key lime pie' with whatever limes are available and a digestive biscuit crust#I sincerely do not care that it is not quite like an authentic key lime pie because you know what#it's nice#and as long as it's nice that's what matters#I recently ordered a big fuck-off box of their 'kosher salt'#just to try to figure out by EXAMINATION what kind of salt that is naturally sold here it most closely corresponds to#American food recipes (not necessarily baking recipes) are just fucking obsessed with kosher salt#IT'S NOT A THING HERE#we have table salt and coarse salt that you put in a grinder and flaky sea salt#THOSE ARE THE SALTS#I'm not trying to be a jerk about this so I hope it doesn't sound that way#it's just one of those things you run up against again and again if you like ‚ you know ‚ American STUFF#that they use terms in their recipes and instructions for STUFF that is absolutely bog-standard in their supermarkets#and totally opaque if you live elsewhere#we only just got one Costco in this country okay people
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