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Post by zoar3 on Aug 26, 2009 15:29:11 GMT -5
I just re-read "Dawn and the Impossible Three," and guess who eats multiple taffy (and something else, maybe in the previous book) at a BSC meeting? You got it. "She" also (shock, of shocks, I did not remember this) suggests to her mother that they purchase food that their guests (at their Memorial Day picnic) will actually like eating. Amazing! I don't think that ever happened again. Also in her first book (we never got to see it happen-darn) MA invited her over to make cookies or fudge. Dawn's response is simply an enthusiastic "yeah."
I now am re-thinking that maybe like Jeff, though not to his extent, Dawn will eat some junk food, along with (mainly) healthy food. Sharon, seems to only eat healthy food aside from..darn it..I already forgot in MA Saves the Day it says Sharon either loves caffeine or baking or something....doesn't it? I know she buys the fancy hot chocolate tins in "Abby Twin."
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 26, 2009 15:39:53 GMT -5
also (shock, of shocks, I did not remember this) suggests to her mother that they purchase food that their guests (at their Memorial Day picnic) will actually like eating. Amazing! I love that. Nice of Dawn to remember, and such a change from when she forces everyone to eat at health food restaurants. Sharon being the one who refers them to the fancy hot chocolate...good catch (and that always sounded so good to me!)
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 18, 2009 23:06:42 GMT -5
Wasn't it though? The mint hot chocolate sounded wonderful to me. When I lived in small town Northern, CA (college and taught there after) there was this place that made homemade ice cream and also hot chocolate. Until then, I had never thought hot chocolate was anything special. This place would include a candy cane as a "stirrer" (or straw) in the cocoa around the holidays. Back to Dawn, in Stacey's Ex-Best Friend, Stacey orders hoagies for the BSC members and Laine. She (Stacey) orders one vegeterian one for Dawn. Why was this so hard to do any other time the group eats together or has a party? All the many times they have pizza, unless Dawn truly eats half a pizza (We don't know what size they ordered every time or how many slices were in it) but why in all heck did half a pizza always have to be for Dawn when they usually ordered large? The other thing, I noticed when re-reading Dawn's Big Date. This book starts with Dawn and Mary Anne looking in cookbooks to decide on what to prepare for their New Years Eve Party the next night. MA is going to make little hot dogs wrapped in a roll (I agree with Dawn on this, but then as I've said I really a vegeterian who does not eat meat--unlike Ms. Schafer. Dawn wants to serve tofu apple nut loaf, soybean pie, or peanut butter logs I think with coconuts. MA and Dawn ends up each making the snacks they want to and have sort of a contest to see whose will be eaten. Is Dawn truly so dumb and plain rude as to host a party with food she knows (or should know) her guests attending won't like? But then she was the one who (I still can't remember the book) who insists to MA that bake Kristy a carrot cake for Kristy's birthday! Dawn, who is supposed to have learned from the error of her ways in trying to make-over herself into something she was not goes on to of course try to "convert" Lewis to health foods in her almighty way.
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sarish
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Post by sarish on Sept 19, 2009 1:02:26 GMT -5
Wasn't it though? The mint hot chocolate sounded wonderful to me. When I lived in small town Northern, CA (college and taught there after) there was this place that made homemade ice cream and also hot chocolate. Until then, I had never thought hot chocolate was anything special. This place would include a candy cane as a "stirrer" (or straw) in the cocoa around the holidays. If you don't mind me asking, where did you live in Northern CA? I lived in a small town named Covelo and one named Ukiah until I was almost 9.
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Post by firecausesburns on Sept 19, 2009 8:14:42 GMT -5
Wasn't it though? The mint hot chocolate sounded wonderful to me. When I lived in small town Northern, CA (college and taught there after) there was this place that made homemade ice cream and also hot chocolate. Until then, I had never thought hot chocolate was anything special. This place would include a candy cane as a "stirrer" (or straw) in the cocoa around the holidays. There's a little cafe near where I live called The Chocolate Room, with 20 different kinds of hot chocolate. It is my mission to try all of them, although I'm held back a bit because I can't stop buying the strawberry flavour. Is Dawn truly so dumb and plain rude as to host a party with food she knows (or should know) her guests attending won't like? But then she was the one who (I still can't remember the book) who insists to MA that bake Kristy a carrot cake for Kristy's birthday! Was that in Chain Letter, for Kristy's welcome-back-from-the-hospital party? It rings a bell.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 19, 2009 22:59:20 GMT -5
Hi Sarish, I lived way up north, closer to Oregon than CA. Beautiful country just not too many job opportunities! I never heard of Covelo. Do you still..lol..I see you now live in Sarasota, Florida. I am horrible at geography...is that anywhere near Disneyworld? I've always wanted to go there. Firecausesburns, "The Chocolate Room" sounds sweetly delicious to me! Do they also serve ice cream? That's my weakest vice. Thank you for your Chain Letter idea. You were right. On the very last page in Kristy's card to her cousin Robin it says that for her suprise party Mary Anne and Dawn baked her a cake. MA wanted to bake a "Vanilla cake with Chocolate Frosting" (Yummy while Dawn wanted to bake a "Carrot Cake with some kind of Yogurt Goo as frosting." (IMO, yuck). Kristy goes onto say that Dawn won and the cake wasn't THAT bad. (Yeah right). Truly, Kristy had been in the hospital first for appendicitis and then with a staph infection and Dawn has the nerve to insist on baking the kind of cake that she (and only she) would like. On a topic other than Chain Letter, it (finally) occurred to me last night that anytime the BSC orders pizza which is a lot. Assuming the book is one where Stacey can eat the cheese, all they needed to do was to have Dawn and Stacey share one! Very simple. Half for Dawn and the other, plain for Stacey. The other 6 members could share 1-2 pizzas however they wished. Or Dawn should simply buy her own darn pizza or few slices. I remember seeing a Pizza Express Menu in one book and it said it sold by the slice.
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 21, 2009 15:08:49 GMT -5
Yogurt as frosting sounds odd! Dawn's New Year's food sounds kind of good to me...the apple nut loaf and the peanut butter logs sprinkled with coconut.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 21, 2009 19:49:45 GMT -5
BooBoobrewer, to each their own. I never meant to insult you or anyone who might find any of the above tasty or worth trying just that for a party for people who probably would not care for such things, particularly the way Dawn probably pedalled them was wrong. The Kristy cake, literally took the cake imo, but would make for an awesome re-write. That would have been a perfect opportunity for MA or someone to stand up to Dawn and remind her that Kristy was the person they were baking the darn thing for!
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 21, 2009 20:34:29 GMT -5
No, I know what you meant and I agree, Dawn often made food or suggested restaurants to eat at that she knew were unpopular. However, the food contest didn't really bug me, and I think it's because she wasn't really forcing her food on anyone, Mary Anne's was there as an alternative. The Kristy cake is a much more glaring example!
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 21, 2009 22:26:07 GMT -5
I'm glad. Lol, you are very right about that!
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Post by wenonah4th on Sept 22, 2009 11:14:00 GMT -5
Carrot cake is pretty rich and really not the healithiest but oh so good!
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Post by candykane on Sept 22, 2009 12:47:05 GMT -5
I love carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
I agree that Dawn's New Year's food sounded really good. I like all-natural peanut butter, which is what she used for the peanut butter logs. Didn't she make a soybean pie, too? I remember her saying that only half of it was eaten, but that she thought it tasted like pumpkin pie. Yum.
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kleb
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Post by kleb on Oct 22, 2009 17:22:02 GMT -5
I myself am a vegetarian and have been one for almost 6 years now. My friends sometimes think I'm crazy, and they would sing the Hillshire Farm commercials just to tease me! Though, Dawn's vegetarianism bugs me a lot. I've always found it weird that she orders the chicken in California Girls, or how she constantly doesn't stick to it! I despise GhostWriters! ARG!
Anyway, One thing that should suprise many people is most vegetarian's that I know including me, we don't eat healthy food. Sure I love vegetables, but I'm addicted to Chocolate and Caffine! Mountain Dew Rocks! Esspecially the Blue kind! XD But, I always found it weird that Dawn thinks Candy is the devil! Chocolate and Tofu rock, but I'm not sure about them together! XD
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 22, 2009 17:35:07 GMT -5
^Re: Dawn and candy, I was rereading her Halloween mystery and she mentions a few times how Jeff gets excited over trick-or-treating and how bad she thinks candy is for kids and that her mom handed out raisins and apples one year, which mortified Jeff. Come on, apples?? Did she bob for them first? I remember Mrs. Porter also giving them to trick-or-treaters in #17.
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Post by zoar3 on Oct 22, 2009 18:10:31 GMT -5
^ LOL to the image of Mrs. Porter bobbing for apples! The Halloween Mystery was especially annoying because the underlying tone was that "she" allowed the candy into the house once a year. Dawn also outright said that she didn't mind if Jeff ate candy every now and then since he usually ate healthy stuff so that was his business. Um Dawn..isn't it everyone else's business if they choose to eat candy also? Kleb, I confess to not caring much for vegetables. I need those recipes where the veggies are truly "hidden."
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