Nancy Wooton

On May 4, 2006, at 6:43 AM, Sandra Dodd wrote:

> There's an illustration and some more history, and a good joke about
> how boys eat s'mores.

Our park day group moves from the park to the beach for summer;
campfires and s'mores are often part of the fun. The last couple of
years, one of our dads started making marshmallow blow guns, so the
joke about boys eating smores takes on a new twist -- they eat the
chocolate, shoot the marshmallows at each other, and toss the graham
crackers to the gulls.

Nancy (who never, ever eats marshmallows, but will happily munch
hershey bars)

Cally Brown

Marshmallows are certainly common here. Just had to share the following
story.

A few years ago we had a bonfire and fireworks night at our place (being
the last bastion of british colonialism we still 'celebrate' Guy Fawkes
day here). We invited aournew American unschooling friends out for the
night. While the bonfire was still flaming bright, the kids started
'toasting' marshmallows over candles. How disgusting was that! But hey,
they were having fun.

Sometime later my friend was talking to some other americans and
commented on the strange ways of NZers - they even toast marshmallows
over candles, and they are horrible! Her kids burst out laughing, and
informed her that NZers don't normally do that - it was her very own
daughters who decided they couldn't wait for the embers, and tried out
the candles. It was such fun watching them catch on fire, all my kids
joined in to!

moral: 'don't make rash judgements of other people's cultures' - or,
'folks are strange' - or something.

Cally
(who has taken photos of the Riff Raff statue, and just has to remember
to take the film in for developing)

Sandra Dodd wrote:

>That has a photo of marshmallow (which maybe totally common in
>Australia�sorry I don't know more marshmallow geography, but they
>didn't teach it in school; they didn't even tell us about Vegamite)
>and some history of S'mores.
>




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Sandra Dodd

On May 4, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Cally Brown wrote:

> Cally
> (who has taken photos of the Riff Raff statue, and just has to
> remember
> to take the film in for developing)


THANKS!
You should put it on a webpage if you have one. Or if you don't, I'd
like to (you took 'em, you'd have to say okay).

Sandra

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Kim H

Hi there,
Yes, we have marshmallows here in Australia too. Yummy toasted on a fire -
hmmm, not sure about the candle thing?

Kim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cally Brown" <mjcmbrwn@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [AlwaysLearning] S'mores


> Marshmallows are certainly common here. Just had to share the following
> story.
>
> A few years ago we had a bonfire and fireworks night at our place (being
> the last bastion of british colonialism we still 'celebrate' Guy Fawkes
> day here). We invited aournew American unschooling friends out for the
> night. While the bonfire was still flaming bright, the kids started
> 'toasting' marshmallows over candles. How disgusting was that! But hey,
> they were having fun.
>
> Sometime later my friend was talking to some other americans and
> commented on the strange ways of NZers - they even toast marshmallows
> over candles, and they are horrible! Her kids burst out laughing, and
> informed her that NZers don't normally do that - it was her very own
> daughters who decided they couldn't wait for the embers, and tried out
> the candles. It was such fun watching them catch on fire, all my kids
> joined in to!
>
> moral: 'don't make rash judgements of other people's cultures' - or,
> 'folks are strange' - or something.
>
> Cally
> (who has taken photos of the Riff Raff statue, and just has to remember
> to take the film in for developing)
>
> Sandra Dodd wrote:
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>>That has a photo of marshmallow (which maybe totally common in
>>Australia-sorry I don't know more marshmallow geography, but they
>>didn't teach it in school; they didn't even tell us about Vegamite)
>>and some history of S'mores.
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