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I think Alton Brown said it was the size of the dough.... globug0822 Send a noteboard - 04/06/2010 02:35:48 AM
It makes no sense. Yes, they are made of dough, but they do not look like nuts by any stretch of the imagination.

Now the Norwegian word makes sense: smultring -- they are rings boiled in "smult".

I demand you justify the strangeness of the English languge. Right here. Right now.

Yes, Tim. I am looking at you.


But yeah.
~g~

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