nonpareil

Reminds me of... Chocolates and frozen green tea yogurt!

Am I the only one who thought sionnach's picture looked tasty?

And those chocolate buttons with the hundreds and thousands? They're only called buttons when they're dodgy, cheap as chips brand. When they're, say, Allen's brand, they're called freckles. And that's good chocolate, they're very tasty.

Then your mother clearly needs to be on Wordie.

I still don't like the picture. My mother would say something like 'mini cow pats with dandruff".

Okay, I'm not waiting for uselessness anymore. ;-)

I just discovered (and posted on the hundreds and thousands page) that the term nonpareil originally applied to the little white balls on the round chocolate discs, not the chocolate discs themselves. Fascinating.

My dad loves those things--or at least he used to. Maybe he's just humoring us now when we buy them for him.

Oh my gosh, I forgot all about hundreds and thousands! It struck me as one of the oddest things I'd ever heard. Also, sionnach... did you purposely go and find a picture that has cookies (biscuits) with something atop them that resembles... ahem... fecal matter?

My brother used to use this extruding device thingie to make chocolate-batter cookies. He called (calls) them turd cookies. The recipe doesn't call for hundreds and thousands at all, though.

I LOVE those nonpareil button thingies! But then, I also love Sweetarts, so I would hardly say that my taste in sweets is refined.

Bilby: in Ireland we call them (the hideous chocolate candy thingies) buttons as well, though I don't know anyone who actually eats them, since they generally consist of cheap milk chocolate, rendered completely unpalatable by the grittiness of the white things.

We also use hundreds and thousands to designate what Americans call sprinkles or jimmies. However, the brand of hundreds and thousands I am most familiar with actually contains spheres covering a distribution of sizes, generally including some larger balls with a kind of metallic tint.

Somewhat like this picture:
hundreds and thousands

Typically, the layer of whipped cream atop a trifle is sprinkled with hundreds and thousands before serving.

Well, I--

You're right, of course. We'll wait for uselessness.

*waiting*

*tapping foot*

Besides, I really don't think we can proceed without a comment from uselessness, who typically has a uselessness thing to say.

And what are they? In Australia we would call them buttons ... that's a start. The white things resemble a fungal infection from Fascinating Malaysian Toe Amputation Manual - Director's Cut. IF they were coloured, and tasted like nothing but the sweet delinquence of sugar and decadence in a tiny ball, we would call them hundreds and thousands.

No, these!

Truffles?

What? I thought they were those little round chocolates with white nubbles on them.

Oh...bunting....

*rattles head*

I don't think it's nice to make birds into tacky coloured flags for used-car lots.

An obsolete name for the Varied Bunting.

NOUN: A person or thing so excellent as to have no equal or match: nonesuch, paragon, phoenix. See GOOD.

ADJECTIVE: Without equal or rival: alone, incomparable, matchless, only, peerless, singular, unequaled, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled. See SAME.