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stevie

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  1. They sound amazing.  Can you get them in the US?  Is there a website that sells them?  What term should I use in my search?

    The generic term for the sprinkles is "hagelslag", and the specific term for the anise ("anijs") ones is "muisjes". There are lots of websites selling to the Dutch abroad, and the first one I come up with is Holland's Best. There's "beschuit" there too, if you want the full experience.

  2. Also, people eat this stuff on round dry toasts that are like giant melba rounds.  Apparently, there is some kind of tradition involving serving and/or eating the "mice" (which come in pink and blue) when a new baby is born.  Don't recall the details though.

    The dry toast rounds are called beschuit, and they're just the local version of a twice baked rusk. A drift to the west of zweiback, if you will. Picture a round a centimeter thick, with a diameter of say 10 cm, very crisp and light. The first baking is as a loaf and then you slice and bake for the second.

    Since I work mostly with men, I haven't experienced a female colleague having a baby. But the guys all take some time off when their partners have a baby, and on their first day back at work they bring "beschuit met muisjes", simply beschuit spread with margarine and sprinkled with muisjes, pink if it's a girl and blue if it's a boy. It's time to shake hands and acknowlege that your colleague will be sleep deprived for the forseeable future.

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