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Wienrich and Boettcher

2015-06-05T08:44:45Z

ThePhenomenalCat: Nougat. Again.

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An exclusive haven, situated on [[Zephire Street]], for [[chocolate]] lovers. But you had better be prepared to mortgage something dear to you, such as a surplus grandparent, just to be able to afford the merest taste. (A small selection of merchandise is displayed in the window and if you have to ask the price you can not afford it.) Note the extra drainage just outside the window. This is to accommodate the otherwise unsightly puddles of drool.

Although it is not named in {{RM}}, this seems to be the shop where [[Death]] bought ''Dark Enchantments'' for [[Renata Flitworth|Miss Flitworth]]. His granddaughter [[Susan Sto Helit]] is a fan of their chocolates as well. Except, of course, for the nougat. (Although technically these do not count as chocolates, see [[Chocolate]].)

Their chocolates also played their part in defeating the [[Auditors]] in {{TOT}}

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User:ThePhenomenalCat

2015-06-05T08:38:47Z

ThePhenomenalCat: Created page with "Nougat."

Nougat.

Well-Known Facts

2015-06-05T08:38:23Z

ThePhenomenalCat: Nougat.

Many things on the [[Discworld]] are so patently obvious and self-evident that they come under the heading of Well-Known Facts, which are usually emphatically presented in spoken discourse and dogmatically topped off with a statement along the lines of "That's a Well-Known Fact, that is!"

A well-known proponent of using Well-Known Facts is [[Fred Colon]], a man who had been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and is now a post-graduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me, and is thus extremely well-educated.

Most people are susceptible to using these Well-Known Facts in dire situations, as demonstrated by Susan Sto Helit's use of them to overcome certain difficulties with nougat.

A Well-Known Fact may also make serfect pense after a few tinnies of Roo Beer.

Well-Known Facts include such axioms as:-

*A [[Million-to-one chance]] comes up nine times out of ten.
*A [[chocolate]] you do not want to eat does not count as chocolate; and indeed, like food consumed whilst walking, contains no calories.
*Everybody knows the thing about [[Dwarfs]] - ([[Casanunda|Dwarfs]] are naturally well-endowed);
*Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things;
*The pen is mightier than the sword (but only if it's a very small sword and it's a large well-sharpened pen);
*The more geography you've got, the less history you have;
*When you've got enemies at large, you do not get into the first cab that obligingly presents itself;
* Everyone knows that at the end of the week, you've never got quite as much [[Glooper|money]] left as you think you should;
* Women should never be taught to read or write, nor indeed to attempt anything overly intellectual, as the effort involved, on a brain quite unsuited for it, will cause it to overheat and explode. A Well-Known Fact to a certain minority of the other half of the human (or Nomish) race...
* Hedgehogs do it ''very carefully'', and indeed the prospect of sodomy is not one which exercises the spiny erinaceid mind very much. Well-known fact, and [[Hedgehog Song|song]].
* Where you get personality, you get irregularities. (This is stipulated even by the [[Auditors of Reality]], who know their facts.)
* All anyone gets in a mirror is themselves, but what you gets in a good gumbo is ''everything''.
* In times of trouble, the best thing to do is panic.

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Wienrich and Boettcher

2015-06-05T08:27:24Z

ThePhenomenalCat: Nougat.

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An exclusive haven, situated on [[Zephire Street]], for [[chocolate]] lovers. But you had better be prepared to mortgage something dear to you, such as a surplus grandparent, just to be able to afford the merest taste. (A small selection of merchandise is displayed in the window and if you have to ask the price you can not afford it.) Note the extra drainage just outside the window. This is to accommodate the otherwise unsightly puddles of drool.

Although it is not named in {{RM}}, this seems to be the shop where [[Death]] bought ''Dark Enchantments'' for [[Renata Flitworth|Miss Flitworth]]. His granddaughter [[Susan Sto Helit]] is a fan of their chocolates as well (except, of course, for the nougat).

Their chocolates also played their part in defeating the [[Auditors]] in {{TOT}}

[[Category: Food and drink]]
[[Category:Ankh-Morpork Businesses]]
[[de:Wienrich und Böttcher]]

Wahoonie

2015-06-05T08:14:06Z

ThePhenomenalCat: Mentioned Jakarta. Edited the ''Big Apple'' etc. to ''The Big Apple'' etc.

The '''Wahoonie''' is a large, spiky, smelly fruit, resembling the Roundworld ''durian'', but even larger and elongated. The city of [[Ankh-Morpork]] is sometimes affectionately called ''The Big Wahoonie'' as New York is called ''The Big Apple'', or Jakarta ''The Big Durian''.

Being extremely rare the fruit has become much prized among connoisseurs (according to footnote in ''[[Book:The Truth|The Truth]]''). It is one of a group of food parodies including [[Curious squid|curious squid]], [[Chicken Vol-Au-Vent]], and [[Blowfish|blowfish]] (see [[:Category:Food and drink|Food and drink]]).

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