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On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:02:41 -0500, Ema Nymton >
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> On 8/1/2012 3:39 AM, Ad wrote:
>
> > Then they've gotten it wrong, because the original cookie isn't salty
> > at all.

>
> The speculoos was placed on a wheat thin, which was salty.
>
> Sf,I thought speculoos was windmill cookies,


I was brought up very near Holland, Michigan and Windmill cookies were
as iconic in that region as Oreo's are here, but I googled images of
Biscoff and they aren't windmill cookies. http://tinyurl.com/crfvv4p

> but this is something you can spread?
>

Yes! It's as spreadable as Nutella and peanut butter - maybe a little
more easily spreadable (but super sweet). The image on the left is
Trader Joe's product.
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...1j4qfVKahROXgN
Here's the web site it came from
http://m.spokesman.com/blogs/too-man...e-spectacular/

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