ZM's Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley - Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley's Lil Bitta Pod - 25th April 2024

Episode Date: April 24, 2024

On Today's Lil Bitta Pod; Fletch, Vaughan & Hayley discuss Anzac Biscuits!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fleshborn and Hayley's Little Bit of Pod Great things are brewing at McCafe, the perfect start to every day Welcome to A Little Bit of Pod and today is Anzac Day, hence why there is no show Lest we forget Yeah, we're taking a long weekend, that's why there haven't been a couple of big pods If you're a recent podcast listener, an international listener, Anzac Day stands for Australia New Zealand Army Corps Kind of celebrates commemorates, I'd say, not celebrates.

Commemorates the big day in World War One when New Zealand and Australia went to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Have you been to Gallipoli? No. I have. I think it'll be a moving experience. It was unreal. We're not a beautiful, because you could get there from Istanbul. I was there getting some plastic surgery. And some dry lamb. And some dry ass lamb. And was unreal. We're not a beautiful, because you could get there from Istanbul. I was there getting some plastic surgery.

And some dry lamb. And some dry ass lamb. And tits. And I got some fresh tits and some dry ass lamb. And I went and it was a beautiful day and it's eerie. Like it is so silent. You don't walk through the trenches. They're all like I guess. Are they there?

Yeah, they're there but they're being preserved so you can't walk through them. Because do people camp out there on Anzac there? Yeah they're there But they're being Preserved So you can't walk through them Because do people Camp out there on Anzac Day? Yeah They sleep there for the sunrise Because the Kiwis in Australia Started charging up the hill

At sunrise At sunrise In World War 1 Freaky place Yeah Full noise So every year It's kind of like our

Memorial Day I guess is Probably the most well known one Yeah A day of remembrance We had a chat in studio earlier So every year, it's kind of like our Memorial Day, I guess, is probably the most well-known one. Yeah. To have remembrance. We had a chat in the studio earlier about Anzac Bickies. Oh, no, don't bring this up now because I mean, I'll stand by the comments, but I don't want to be seen as... I just want...

You're a piece of shit, you know? You don't like an Anzac biscuit. He doesn't like an Anzac biscuit. Can we bring up for international listeners that don't know... The Anzac biscuit. He doesn't like Anzac biscuit. Can we bring up for international listeners that don't know. The Anzac biscuit. Oats. It was a biscuit that they had in the trenches in World War II. It was easy ingredients.

Because at last, the ladies would make them and they'd send them across and the ships would take ages to get there. They'd last for ages and they'd still be edible by the time they got there. Because of the honey and whatnot, it kind of preserved it. Horrendous amount of golden syrup and sugar. Okay, so you're getting one cup of flour, one and a half teaspoons of ground cinnamon, one and three quarter cups of rolled oats,

some coconut. Sometimes, if you're lost. That's optional. So I just Googled what was the original Anzac biscuit. The standard army biscuit at this time was a rock-hard tooth breaker called a ship's biscuit. Although it's a myth that Anzac biscuits were sent and

eaten by troops in Gallipoli. Oh fuck you told a lion he's calling you right out immediately A myth! I'm spreading false news over here Some evidence suggests a rolled oats based biscuit was sent to troops on the western front although this is not widespread Oh! So how did the Anzac recipe as we know and love

the spicy oaty bicky. History of the Anzac biscuit as we know and love The spicy Oatie Bickie Which I don't Why don't you like it? It's too hard, I like a soft No, no, no, you're cooking them wrong Like a macadamia white chocolate No, but Anzacs can be You want to get it around the edge all chewy

And then soft in the mid So Anzac biscuits should not be confused with hard tack which is a type of dense biscuit or cracker made from a flour water and sometimes salt christ that sounds yuck because those were nicknamed anzac wafers oh okay so and this is on the national army museum website in wauru um the majority of rolled oat biscuits that we know as Anzac biscuits were actually sold and consumed at galas and fates and parades as a war fundraising effort in New Zealand. For the troops. Yes. And they were known as soldier biscuits.

Fundraising was coordinated, raising 6.5 million pounds for New Zealand's war effort. That's pretty good for back in the day. That would have been a lot of money back in the day. I love an Anzac biscuit. I'm not going to be able to get through the day without having one. You know, Australia has a ban on any commercial goods that use the term Anzac. You're not allowed to slap Anzac on something to sell it. Apart from Anzac biscuits, and you're not allowed to call them Anzac cookies.

Because it sounds too jovial. Cookies. And fun. Whereas this was a horrendous war, obviously. The original 1916 Anzac ginger biscuits. That was the first recipe. Yeah, I put a bit of spice in mine. Yeah, that's nice.

I like the sound of that. A bit of cinnamon, a bit of ginger. They've got to be chewy and not hard. If they go hard, they get cracky. No, no, no, no, no Chewy gooey Yeah, but Fletch doesn't like them And that's

No, I'll be When I'm And he doesn't like Wadi's tomato sauce either When I'm enlisted I'm a terrible patriot You are When I'm enlisted to fight on the front of the war With Russia and China or whoever we'll be up against

I'll probably just pick some squiggles You're going to take squiggles, are you? Well, that wasn't an option for our Anzac They'll stand out, they're not camouflaged You'll be able to see the little squiggles The snipers will see you from a mile away I'm just about to be getting it in my mouth Yeah and they'll shoot it through

And you'll have to drop down and get out of the way You'd think we would have learnt hey on Anzac Day In World War 1 or World War 2 What that wars don't fix anything No and that they're horrible and... Mmm. Good bickies. You know, silver lining.

God, we got one hell of a bicky out of it. Great, yummy, gooey bicky. For those that celebrate, the Anzac biscuit.