Anzacs
They were there at Gallipoli and in the trenches at the Somme. They saw some of the most ferocious fighting of WWI and yet somehow the debate still rages: were the original Anzacs as tough as guts and as brittle as old nails or were they soft, tender… and chewy?
It’s a question that has had passionate biscuit lovers waging a ferocious battle for decades. It’s a fight that’s set to rival the Hundred Years’ War in length and bitterness. The righteous crisp and crunchy forces will brook no dissent. They know how they like it and will take no prisoners (or at least no other opinions than their own). They can be a dogmatic bunch.
The knock-about chewy bikkie lovers, on the other hand, are more like the Anzacs themselves. Open to new methods, up for fun when it’s on offer and willing to try new guerrilla tactics to force their (somewhat soft) hand.
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“I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could,” reads the bumper sticker of a passing Ford F250, nearly the size of an Australian tow-truck.
Everything is BIG in Texas – trucks, hats, steaks, beer and most of all pride. Texans are damn proud of the land their grandfathers fought to own, as if their very blood flowed beneath the soil and not the rich black oil the pump-jacks work non-stop to extract. The Texan flag is the only State flag legally flown at the same level as the Stars and Stripes.
Following our first ever Thanksgiving lunch, my wife and I settled down with our extended family to watch a football match between the University of Texas ‘Longhorns’ and Texas A&M University, The Aggies. It was a room divided, as if a new civil war was being played out over turkey and ham leftovers.
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Lois Underwood says:
I’m a Texan, right down to the core. I was born here and have lived here all my life. I can’t imagine living anywhere else, except Australia. We may have to move there if Obama gets re-elected. Australia is a very beautiful country and you Aussies have every right to… Read more »
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Well put “Lenny”. Read more »
Sixty five years ago today, Europe was enslaved by the greatest tyranny.
Proud nations were in chains.
Millions were dying in camps, such as Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen.
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