OMG do you get trifle in America?

I've never seen trifle available as a packaged convenience food like that here in the U.S. I have seen trifle being offered in some in-store bakeries that offer other bakery items either made on the premises or in the grocery chain's bakery, i.e. it's sold freshly made and meant to be consumed quickly. I've also seen it offered as a dessert item on restaurant menus.

But trifle is really not a common dessert or snack item in the U.S. If you want some, you make it yourself.

It looks kinda yucky like bloody vomit.

OP, I'm a Brit but I live in the States. When I visit the UK (or used to, pre-pandemic) I bring back Bird's Trifle mix for the neighbo[u]rs. I think they see it as a little bit of Downton Abbey.

OP, where are you trying to pretend to be from?

When I think of trifle, I think of the word meaning something of little consequence, insignificant. I've never heard of it. Is it basically strawberry shortcake?

no, R5 - it's a chilled layered dessert.

It's basically parfait?

Good golly

They don't have it in America, but I do miss the Tesco seasonal trifle, especially the Christmas one <3

R4 I don't think the OP is pretending to be from anywhere? Ms Molly's is a supermarket in-house brand (Tesco), about the cheapest product line in the store.

Lidl own brand trifle is much better though.

[quote][R4] I don't think the OP is pretending to be from anywhere?

Of course, I'm not. R4 is being a bore.

I miss Sainsbury bag of chocolate chip cookies and sticky toffy pudding.

[quote]I miss Sainsbury bag of chocolate chip cookies

OMG that's another thing I simply cannot buy - Sainsbury's chocolate corn flakes. I just devour them.

People in the US generally don't know what trifle is, and its generally not available here. There are no pre-packaged mixes like the one you found, but my mum is British, and she taught me to make it from scratch, which I do occasionally. Always remember it from when I was a kid.

OP, sweetie, I do trifle at M&S Simply Food. Getting trifle at Tesco is just so...common.

[quote]Getting trifle at Tesco is just so...common.

I agree. I wasn't expecting much at all. It blew my mind.

Trifle does have history in The US, it was called Tipsy Parson/Squire in the 18th century.

If you make it, you have to make the custard too. The US doesn't have all the various canned custards like the Brits do.

We used to eat it quite often when my grandmother was alive. One of my older sisters had Gran's recipe. She puts a cake in it.

Yes, this one I had wasn't cakey. I don't think it had cake. I ate it so fast. The cake should have liqueur in it, shouldn't it? This was trifle for kids.

R20 Custard is pretty easy to make with a vanilla pod, light cream, sugar and egg yolks. Powdered custard only came about in the mid 19th century.

The American dessert most closely resembling trifle is banana pudding, and it's not THAT close.

This is something I've only encountered homemade.

Trifle - 👎🏻

Pavlova - 👍

You can buy single and family servings of trifle at upscale groceries in the U.S., such as Central Market in Texas.

Supermarket trifle is one of those rare treats for when I’m feeling a bit sorry for myself. It’s the kind of thing you eat when no one’s watching. I love it. The M&S ones are good.

[quote] The M&S ones are good.

Molly's are better. So watch out!

Back in the '70s I used to make the Silver Palate Cookbook trifle recipe. It was usually a big hit. I thought the way they made little sandwiches out of the pound cake and the jam was quite ingenious. This recipe calls for marsala, but I think I used to use sherry or brandy.

r14 I've always wanted make Sticky Toffee Pudding. Do you know of a good recipe?

We eat yogurt layered with fresh fruit in the Us

I only know trifles from Rachel Making one on Friends

Fuck is trifle?

Orange chiffon cake, fresh raspberries, raspberry jam, custard, whipped cream, sliced almonds(optional) sweet sherry or sweet marsala(don't go overboard with the booze), chocolate shavings(optional)

Make as many layers as you wish, the chocolate shavings, if used, go on top.

To those who buy it ready made: What is the texture like? Sliceable, like a cake or is it more scoop-able, the way traditional trifle is?

When I lived in London years ago, one of my favorite desserts was treacle tart. Is it sold anywhere in the States or has anyone a good recipe? Is treacle the same as molasses, btw?

I could never bring myself in mixed company to order Spotted Dick in the UK!

R36, I haven't had treacle in years but I thought it was like corn syrup.

Treacle Tart is harder and harder to find these days, but worth searching for.

Mr. Kipling is delicious.

Treacle Sponge on the other hand is everywhere.

No, but I make my own. I do cheat and use instant custard powder like Bird's, other times I go all out.

Trifle, yes, but not the fruit cocktail one! The chunks of pear ruin it, for my tastes anyway.

R17 Problem with M&S is their trifles use compote instead of jelly. I might sound childish, but I want jelly in my trifle!

I do love the cheap cakes you get at supermarket “bakeries.”

I'm just not sure what was in my Molly's, I ate it so fast - I remember the cream and the custard. Maybe there was jelly.

R37 That's because you're very unlikely to have been anywhere that would have served it.

Spotted Dick isn't served in restaurants. I haven't seen it anywhere nor heard it mentioned (except by deluded DLers) since my schooldays.

[quote]I do love the cheap cakes you get at supermarket “bakeries.”

I like supermarket cafes.

We used to make it in Canada at Christmas. You need one package of jelly rolls , vanilla pudding , triple sec , thawed frozen strawberries ,canned peaches , whipped cream and maraschino cherries.

Slice the jelly rolls and put one layer in the bottom of a big serving bowl . Then soak with triple sec . Next a layer of the vanilla pudding . Then the thawed strawberries then another layer of jelly rolls . Then add the triple sec again then a layer of the pudding then the peaches . Keep alternating the layers until you get to the top of the bowl . The last layer is whipped cream and then the maraschino cherries on top . Even if it turns out bad , the triple sec on it will make you feel good 😁

Sainsbury's copied our Piggly Wiggly.

I love trifle but I haven’t had it in decades. Luckily, my other favorite dessert is chocolate mousse and that is easy to find or makes.

Straight triflin boo

[quote] OMG do you get trifle in America?

No, we don't. You live in America. Stop pretending you live in another country. You don't.

[quote] I was in the supermarket (Tesco West Ken.) today

No, you weren't.

[quote] and thought I'd get something sweet to have at some point this weekend, so I bought a Molly's trifle.

IOW, you bought a package of Oreos.

[quote] It was the cheapest one

It would have been cheaper with a coupon.

[quote] It was incredible.

Calm down. It was just an oreo.

[quote] I almost ate three-quarters of it in one go (it's meant for four people) I had to throw it in the trash.

Just wait until you see your morning BM.

[quote] I can't remember the last time I had such a response to something like that.

You had that same response after polishing off a dozen Cinnabon at breakfast.

[quote] I hate people comparing food with sex - but really!

People not having sex will often use that comparison.

Questions for OP: are you trying to pass that pic off as one you took? Also, do you find it odd that so many people just happened to be on DL in a three hour window to gush over trifle? The banter seems so immediate. It's strange. Most of your threads are.

Who cares if OP is actually in the UK or if they actually had trifle? I'm enjoying the trifle thread regardless.

I’ve been meaning to make trifle. I thought ladyfingers instead of cake was traditional.

R36

My impression of treacle is that it's sugar syrup with some molasses. So it has a bit of molasses flavor, but it's not overwhelming.

Treacle tart sounds a bit like shoofly pie in the U.S.

R51 - yours is the weirdest post I've ever read in my life....you're a FREAK.

R51 I'm not debating, and willing to keep an open mind as I'm unfamiliar with OP's other threads, but what makes you think he's posting from elsewhere? Muriel could probably find the IP address.... Oh Muriel darling....?

[quote]Who cares if OP is actually in the UK

Why respond to that moron - why would I make it up?

No British person has ever used the word 'trash', nor felt the need to specify the Tesco they went to.

They had a good vegan one at Native Foods in LA.

We have bread pudding!

[quote]No British person has ever used the word 'trash', nor felt the need to specify the Tesco they went to.

Let it go. It is but a trifle.

r60 Dare I ask?

Well, R51 hasn't explained his suspicions, so there's that. This is an odd forum, insofar as what isn't accepted at face value. So many paranoid posters it would seem, accusing some as being women, or worse fraus.

I happen to be British, and have been called "fake Brit" numerous times, in addition to "frau", and lesbian, when I defend them. I'm ashamed to admit I've been called "Tranny licker", or "Tranny chaser"as well. Thus far, no direct accusations I am a tranny however. I suppose I could very well be a British lesbian tranny, and they've been wrong all along!

[quote]No British person has ever used the word 'trash', nor felt the need to specify the Tesco they went to.

A British person who lived in America would. Now fuck off with this bullshit.

Oh, gee...he said bullshit - he's from Chicago!

Actually I do tend to AmericaniZe on DL - otherwise people go on and on about my lingo and not my subject.

I threw the triffle in the bin?

Better?

How would I know about Molly trifle if I was in America?

R64 Funny that, I actually live in Chicago. There are plenty of us here. There are British schools as well. Some supermarkets even cater to us... shudder to think. Are you from Chicago OP?

No I'm from fucking London. Sorry if that sounds so exotic that I must be faking it.

R67/OP No problem with you, just figured you could easily be an American living abroad. I'm originally from London, and happen to love trifle, so carry on.

[quote] No I'm from fucking London. Sorry if that sounds so exotic that I must be faking it.

I've actually ended up liking you, OP. You sound solid. There's an epicurean troll which starts similar themed threads. Constantly. You're a class act.

Trash is a Norse, Viking word. It was used in England before the US was colonized, it appears in Othello.

[ITALIC]

[BOLD] Iago: [BOLD]

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls. Who steals my purse steals [BOLD] trash [BOLD]; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

Othello Act 3, scene 3, 155–161 [/ITALIC]

I don't remember ever seeing a pre-made trifle anywhere, but I have made many of them myself when I've had company over. Probably one of the more simple yet impressive desserts you can make.

[quote]good vegan

Oxymoron

Rifles, not trifles!

Is treacle the same thing as golden syrup? I had a recipe that called for golden syrup and the only place I could find it was Cost Plus World Market.

actually I do tend to write in a very American style on DL, if I think about it....short of short and sharp and punchy - British English is much more labo(u)red. Draggy.

I've been here so many years I'm now a TOTAL DLer in my style and any chance I get to say "gurl, puhlease" I'll take it.

So I can see why occasionally I might sound American. But to go to the trouble of faking some story about eating trifle is ridiculous.

(for example - I've now written a little too much about myself - big NO NO on DL)

[quote]Is treacle the same thing as golden syrup?

No, treacle is treacle.

Treacle is fucking crack, and I try to avoid sweets.

Molly's trifle? I mean, that's nasty. She don’t love ha self.

Dark treacle is like molasses as it has a lot of molasses in it. But the lighter variety of treacle is indeed similar to golden syrup.

R77 I think the nearest that you can get widely in the US is Blackstrap Molasses.

R70 We don't speak Shakespearean English in the UK. 'Trash', while understood, just isn't used.

If I had to eat SPOTTED DICK , moments later I'd be on the toilet doing a lot of BUBBLE AND SQUEAK!

My grandmother used to make treacle tart for me especially, but she used lemon in it for some weird reason and I never liked it and was too young to say "quit with the fucking lemon".

She also used to buy me Butterscotch Angel's Delight (which I also noticed today on my fantasy visit to Tesco in West Ken.) - she'd set it all up for me so I could "make it". I don't like it so much now.

If I got hold of some spotted dick I'd march myself down to the free clinic.

We have the Dicken's Christmas Faire, in recent years held at the Cow Palace in San Francisco , been going on for over 45 years.

The faire features Cuthburt's Tea Shop where one can order trifle with afternoon tea. I've seen it in other places, usually bakeries or specialty stores, but it's not ubiquitous.

There's a town called Bakewell in Derbyshire. The whole place seems to revolve around its famous tart.

R82 I'm from Manchester, I hear people say trash quite often. Mainly about Chavs, Gippo's and Scally's rather than rubbish. It could be a Northern thing?

I love "trashy"

As an American, trifle seems distinctly British. It was served SO often in that dinner party competition show - I can't remember the name of it.

But it was ubiquitous - and it never really looked THAT great.

I would love to try it - it is seriously never served in the states. I would appreciate a lighter dessert offering.

I love trifle, but it's basically unknown/forgotten in North America. The closet we have is yogurt parfait which is not as good.

[quote]The whole place seems to revolve around its famous tart.

What's her name and how much does she charge?

I was embarrassed when I was in London and had to ask the clerk at the bakery counter what exactly a Bakewell Tart was. But they are delicious.

r84 Your post gives no clue as to what "Angel Delight" is? Is it like an (American) pudding? The logo looks disconcertingly like this one for toilet paper.

Make sure you add sherry!

Absolutely not! I make my own!

They make something like it at Whole Foods. (Or they used to. Who goes to Whole Foods anymore?) It was yellow cake, berries, whipped cream, and crème pâtissière.

OP, food companies spend a fortune to get exactly that reaction. They want people buying the product all the time

Italians have it too-Zuppa Inglese.

English soup?

It's all so triflin' and confused.

[quote][quote][R84] Your post gives no clue as to what "Angel Delight" is? Is it like an (American) pudding? The logo looks disconcertingly like this one for toilet paper.

I guess it's a kind of mousse. It's a powder and you add milk, whip it up and it grows before your eyes.

Just for R45 if you visit the The Green Man Inn, Bradwell-on-sea (and many other fine establishments), you can happily order yourself a Spotted Dick. AKA of course you can fucking order a Spotted Dick in the UK, assuming that there's not a plank of wood across the door with a big red X painted on it at the moment...

If you want the flavour of British custard (which was invented by Mr Bird due to his wifes egg allergy) rather than egg custard, then get yourself some milk, cornflour, caster sugar, vanilla essence (the real one, not that weird wood based stuff you have in the US) and some yellow food colouring. Use the food colouring sparingly, you want after a pale yellow not something that looks like Trump's face. If you cannot get trifle sponges, use dried out madeira cake, and make sure you reinvigorate it with half a bottle of sherry.

R88 Same here. It's as if that mad poster thinks we don't get American TV shows here, meaning American words find their way into how we speak.

R90 Come Dine With Me?

Shop-bought trifles can be very good but I've yet to have one that tastes as nice as home-made. (That's assuming, of course, that you know how to make one properly - Mary Berry has a lovely boozy trifle which has gone down a treat at BBQs.)

My grandmother's trifle was legendary. She was a lifelong teetotaller and even part of a teetotal movement called the Pioneers in Ireland, but the trifle she'd make every Sunday had a bottle of sherry in it.

I don't know if she even realised sherry was alcoholic, but we'd all have a good sleep after Sunday Lunch.

Shop-bought? Gone down a treat? Stop the charade.

You know what you look like to me with your good bag and your cheap shoes and your cribbed Britishisms? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you OP? And that accent you’re trying so desperately to shed – pure West Virginia. What was your father, dear? Was he a coal miner? Did he stink of the lamp? And oh, how quickly Ronald McDonald found you. All those tedious, limp fries, in the back seats of cars, while you could only dream of getting out. Getting anywhere. Getting all the way to Marks & Spencer.

R106 Just wait till he hears about Waitrose.

You know something I haven't seen a lot of lately? Lemon Drizzle.

Maybe it's gone out of fashion.

American style cakes have really taken over the Western World. Out goes Lemon Drizzle and in comes Red Velvet.

And crumpets are NOT what they were.

And (I'm on a roll now) American doughnuts have totally taken the place of those old British jammy ones of yore.

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I can’t cake that’s been moistened by fruit. It revolts me.

The English will jump all over you if you ask them to pass the jam you see on the table, and it's orange. "No, no, it's marmalade."

There are plenty of online stores selling all kinds of British foods.

Not just online.

R64 which stores in Chicago ? I would love to take my business there !

If only there was some way to search for stores in Chicago that sell British foodstuff.

We have jelly doughnuts at most US bakeries and at the chain formerly known as Dunkin Donuts. Those of us who live in major cities buy polish paczki before Easter and Israeli sufganiyot in December, too, which are basically the same thing.

The Bird's custard you describe is similar to the Jello cooked vanilla pudding mixes, which are not around anymore. Jello went instant and subbed the cornstarch (cornflour) for other thickeners that do not require heat. I don't know anyone who bothers with that stuff anymore. It was something you'd make for kids but now everyone is anti-sugar.

Definitely no trifle mixes here. I see lots of individual parfaits in most grocery story that sub fruit for jam and omit the booze and custard--cake, fruit, whipped cream, rinse, lather, repeat.

The only readily available custard I'm aware of is Spanish flan or creme brulee. Making flan or patisserie cream is not something the average frau cook in the US does or even can do.

I love international food threads. Carry on, OP.

R103 - Yes, Come Dine with Me, which is just a fucking fantastic show - only because of the narrator. You take him away and it's just not as fun.

[quote]only because of the narrator. You take him away and it's just not as fun.

There was a documentary on British TV about people trying to pass their driving tests - typical Brit TV fodder but this was really funny and it had Alan Carr narrating and quipping in that campy voice - I'm not usually a fan of his but this was hysterical.

This looks like something you'd get at Fourth of July picnic in Alabama.

That crap at R101 looks awfully gassy.

[quote]I love international food threads. Carry on, OP.

My post about a supermarket trifle is an INTERNATIONAL FOOD THREAD! I feel AMAZING!

& yes, I will R118. Thank you.

We Americans are not to be trifled with.

Trifle is not popular here but one Thanksgiving I made a Meyer Lemon Mascarpone trifle. It was to die for. Got the recipe out of Southern Living and I just happened to have a ton of fresh Meyer lemons. It's usually warm down here in November.

I'm not used to trifle with "pastry cream" which is basically like custard anyway. It's cake, fruit, and custard in layers and whipped cream (heavy cream not that instant garbage) for the top layer. Never chocolate.

And the only time I had it was Christmas and OF COURSE the grandparents didn't drink alcohol so no one was allowed to drink anything "out of respect".

So there was no alcohol in it--forgot to mention

[quote]Never chocolate.

Wrong

I've seen recipes for a chocolate trifle but haven't tried it.

[quote]Jello cooked vanilla pudding mixes, which are not around anymore

Where did you get that idea? They still make cook-and-serve Jell-O pudding mixes in several flavors, including vanilla.

Custard filled doughnuts are also a British thing.

We have those kinds of donuts here. I see them in the Publix deli all the time.

Blancmange

Well?

You're all fools.

In London we have places that just sell those Portuguese custard tarts - you probably have them in the USA as well. How they survive just selling them. I find them too sweet.

Apparently they're "egg" tarts

World Market carries a lot of British food

[quote] Custard filled doughnuts are also a British thing.

I loved those things growing up on Long Island. Got them fresh from the local bakery. Don’t see them anymore, but then, I don’t see many stand alone bakeries anymore.

You can get everything you need from DL favorite Nicky including custard powder and possibly readymade trifle.

^^^

They had a chocolate glaze on the top

We'll give you trifle.

It never occurred to me to "buy" trifle.

OP certainly is lazy and sad.

Here is the co-owner of A Salt & Battery, the fry-up next door to the tea-shoppe. He may like to trifle too.

[quote]OP certainly is lazy and sad.

Lazy? NO! I'm the creator of an INTERNATIONAL FOOD THREAD.

OP, now I know you're a fake. West Ken. Tesco indeed. It's late where you are...

Not the OP but my local Tesco opens 6am until midnight, I don't think British people retire (or get up) quite as early as our US counterparts.

Asda (Walmart) open 24 hours.

I thought Walmart was finally selling that shithole ASDA.

R144 The clocks went back in The UK tonight, It's only 1:10am now.

(F & F from your link is only the Tesco clothing brand, they only have a large selection in certain stores, that was how that announcement came around)

R146 Asda is in the process of getting new owners, should complete soon. They're gonna need to spend a shit ton of money refitting the stores, Walmart really neglected them.

Tesco West Ken.

Those Tesco stores allegedly open 24 hours (more like 17 hours) are all the same. The one shown at R148 is merely a stock image.

[quote]The one shown at [R148] is merely a stock image.

What do you mean?

It's the West Ken store.

Poor OP/R150 get some sleep. It's late in your empire.

I wish I'd had time to go into a large British supermarket when I was in London a few years back. I was staying near Victoria Station; the only market in walking distance was a very small Sainsbury's.

Yeah R152, Victoria stinks. But there is a gigantic Sainsberries on Wilton Road which you missed because you are either a blinkered tourist or because you haven't been there in a quarter of a century.

R116 Not R64, but I did mention some stores cater to us. Jewel in Ashland Wellington Plaza has an entire aisle if British foods. Almost everything hard to come by here which many of the smaller American stores really mark up. There's candy, including real Cadbury, Drinking Chocolate, treacle cakes, spotted dick, fizzy drinks, salad cream, HP and other brown sauce, clotted cream, Heinz products from the UK, Wheetabix, British soups and Indian foods, and Coleman's seasoning sachets.

The "Green Jewel" closer to downtown has a lot of British foods as well. (West Loop / Des Plaines) There's a few locations up north that stock the British candy, and a few other items.

Mariano's in Ravenswood, Edgewater, and on Ashland Ave. all stock British foods. They have an especially large selection of English cheese.

Many smaller markets throughout the suburbs, but I'm not willing to give up ALL me sources. Treasure Island and Jolly Posh were great sources, but sadly long gone now. Happy shopping to you.

R151 The Sun pretty much still never sets on British Overseas Territories, even excluding the one's that still have HM The Queen merely as Head of State.

R154 Treasure Island is here.

R155 your stupid map: no NZ, OZ, Canada.

R157 I left those out purposefully. They are Independent and only have The Queen as Head of State.

The rest can and do receive full support from The UK Government in the event of Invasion of Natural Disaster.

[quote] The rest can and do receive full support from The UK Government in the event of Invasion of Natural Disaster.

Tell that to Monserrat. Tell that to Diego Garcia. They will laugh in your two faces.

Perfide Albion.

Almost the whole population of Montserrat moved to The UK and were given British Citizenship (entitlement to benefits etc).

Diego Garcia happened over 50 years ago, they mainly settled in Monserrat.

It needs agreement from The US and UK Government s to rectify the situation.

I see your point, but it is approaching a conclusion finally.

When we had the short-lived Tesco-owned Fresh & Easy chain here in California, they always had a small section of British specialties--not just canned/packaged stuff, but fresh prepared foods like bangers and mash.

R161 I see Marmite. No wonder Tesco went out of business here.

Publix carries a small selection of British foods including most of the items pictured at R161.

World Market does carry a lot of foreign foods, but they don't move quickly enough and the products are often degraded and stale. I was burned badly on a couple of purchases there and wouldn't get anything else edible from WM.

You should see the rubbish they have in the American section at Tesco (West Ken.)

[quote] Tesco (West Ken.)

Does. Not. Exist.

[quote]Does. Not. Exist.

Who ARE you with this nonsense?

You're an irritant.

I like a good Trifle

but that Molly's crap looks disgusting

When OP says West Ken he really means Shepherds Bush.

^^^^ Holland Park!!!!!

I could do without the ginger but otherwise here is a very traditional trifle.

[quote] OMG that's another thing I simply cannot buy - Sainsbury's chocolate corn flakes. I just devour them. --OP

Just how fat ARE you?

R170 my biggest problem with English trifles is the candied fruits or whatever they seem to put on top of some of them. Blech.

r172 They're just tryin' to prettify it. Flick 'em off, and give 'em to your favorite fruitcake baker(I can be over in 5 minutes)

Are they chocolate-flavored cornflakes or chocolate-covered cornflakes?

Here is my lemon marscapone trifle. Time consuming but worth it. People inhaled it. I was pissed none was left over.

Now you know to make 2!

The trifle was the maiden aunt's only excuse ever to have a drink. She'd lace it with sherry, what kind I don't know but I assume sweet (not the expensive kind, Cyprus or South African).

[quote]Are they chocolate-flavored cornflakes or chocolate-covered cornflakes?

Covered.

They're unbelievable.

[quote]Just how fat ARE you?

Hon, I said I don't buy them.

OMG my little trifle thread's had almost 2,000 views!!

It's been quite a journey!

Accusations - you're American, the supermarket doesn't exist...

It's been one long crazy journey.

If you like those cornflakes, you'd probably like these.

The trifle molly seems to have gone quiet.

It looks easy to prepare from scratch.

Who could be bothered when you can get Molly's - so cheap, so good.

[quote] marscapone

Oh, DEAR

[quote]It looks easy to prepare from scratch.

You have to bake a cake, stew some fruit, make some custard, whip the cream...not so easy.

You also have to use a Molly house kitchen for best results. Again, not so easy as R185 says.

R186, what the HELL am I looking at?

How's the West Ken molly-house doing?