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<$5: The Tuck Shop - A $4 sausage roll that rocks PLUS It's Tim Tam Time!

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Landing the most scrumptious sausage roll at the Tuck Shop NY The Tuck Shop Revisited for Tim Tams, Mint Slice, and a runny meat pie The Tuck Shop featured in my "Best Job In The World" application The Tuck Shop? Never 'eard of it! +++ HOW DO you make a sausage roll? Put it on a hill and push it. That's the über clean joke about this snack from my kindergarten days, when the local Aussie "tuck shop" or school canteen dispensed greasy, fatty pies, pasties and sausage rolls to a nutritionally unenlightened public. Oh how we loved that flaky bakey crap. The pie - something that has never taken off in the USA except in the form of a 'pot pie' - was a pastry case filled with drippy, peppery mince in a brown gravy strong on Worcestershire sauce. How did you eat it? Peel off the pastry lid and eat that first. The using your index fingers, scoop out the filling and suck it off your fingers, ouching at the temperature. Finall

60cents-$5 Microdesserts @ Three Tarts, NY

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$5 Chai Greek Yogurt Cup trying not to eat it too fast ... My folding bike experiment, tikit on Trial , included this visit to the Three Tarts : I visit the Three Tarts almost as often as the bathroom but I can assure you there's no direct causality ... The antithesis of supersize me, ThreeTarts is 'microsize me' with its tiny, utterly original, coin-sized cookies, tarts, muffins and parfaits, meticulously baked and priced to empty the small change in your pocket. You will find concoctions here that you will find nowhere else. Here are the absolute standout numbers in my book: 1. The Chocolate Lovely - two superfine, super thin, super dark (almost black) chocolate cookies with a dark ganache filling. There is a delayed reaction as the chocolate hits your palate then creeps slowly over it, intensifying as it goes. Wow. What a way to spend 60 cents. Shape changes from bat to penguin to megaphone depending on the whim of the Japanese patisserie me