Above all, it's hard to be a kid who can't have birthday cake, cookies or ice cream — on Halloween, Sam has to trade his candy in for a present.

最重要的，对于一个孩子来说，不能吃生日蛋糕、饼干和冰激凌是很困难的一件事——在万圣节，Sam必须上交他所有的糖果来换取礼物。

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Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you'd get a bike for your birthday, or if you get to eat cookies for breakfast.

还记得吗？当你还是个孩子，你最担心的事情是你能不能在生日时得到一个自行车，或者你能不能在早饭时吃到饼干。

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Meanwhile, Americans indulge on birthday cake, Reese's cups, chocolate gooey centre, and salted caramel chunk cookies, the idea of which makes us northerners' mouths water.

相比之下，美国的趣多多却有那么多不同的口味！ 有生日蛋糕、瑞茜杯、软心巧克力蛋糕、咸焦糖饼干——光听名字就让北方佬们口水直流。

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Another problem, as Merrie Paulsen pointed out, was that Patty was no great progressive and certainly no feminist (staying home with her birthday calendar, baking those God-damned birthday cookies) and seemed altogether allergic to politics.

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So people, a lot of times, if they want to eat chocolate-chip cookies or birthday cake, they have a recipe book that tells them how to do that, where they might not have a recipe book for the master cleanse diet, or for Ratatouille, for that matter.

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So you think recipe, you know, maybe birthday cake, chocolate-chip cookies, something you might actually eat.

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