A very, very important question of global scope

[sqbr]

So I was looking up recipes for hokey-pokey icecream today and was overcome by an almost inconceivable suspicion: it's not eaten in America! Or in fact anywhere beyond the Pacific region!

Is this true? Because you guys are missing out. On the plus side afaict it's just made by mixing vanilla icecream with honeycomb (or "sponge toffee", which sounds terrible), though I plan to make it with butterscotch flavoured icecream(*).

What are the foods/recipes from a country you've lived in which you can't believe people overseas don't eat?

Personally I have trouble understanding how people can not like vegemite, but intellectually I can see how it might be something you need to have grown up with :)

(*)When I can find somewhere that sells oat/almond milk and honeycomb, Coles having neither this evening. Bah!

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[theducks.livejournal.com]

Not so much foods, but we have drinks..

1) Lemon Lime and Bitters
2) Lemon Squash (ie, Solo)
3) Cordial

[alias_sqbr]

OTHER COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE THESE THINGS???

Well, I knew about LLB, though part of me still doesn't believe it.

[ariaflame.livejournal.com]

I know. I was vaguely aware of the LLB, but the lack of lemon squash shocked me when I was back in the UK. Mind you, it's a bugger getting Irn Bru here.

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

Believe it, everytime I try to order it I get some basterdised version with too much Bitters.

[alias_sqbr]

Didn't mandragora2003 go around teaching to the bartender of every pub she visited in Ireland? :)

[maelkann.livejournal.com]

I have heard rumours that Counter biscuits are not sold over east.

[alias_sqbr]

Since I'm not sure I've ever eaten one this does not weird me out as much as some of the others :)

[fe2h2o.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Lemon Cordial...

Cordial (the name) is used in a few places (Raspberry Cordial is in Anne of Green Gables, I have seen recipes for Cordials as a kind of alcoholic beverage).

I was looking for a recipe so I could make some, and all the recipes I came across were Australian. I figure it's really very similar to lemonade (as in lemonade stand), so it's mostly a difference in name rather than substance (although, at least citric acid is critical in lemon cordial).

[alias_sqbr]

My english grandma always called lemon cordial "lemonade" which led to many disappointments as a child ("Hey Sophie, want some lemonade?" "Yes please!...oh") Wikipedia says they call it "squash".

I've had Koolaid and it is Not The Same.

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

citroen presse (where you get a big glass of soda-water, and little glasses of sugar-syrup and fresh lemon-juice, so you can mix your own drink as you go along). although they're becoming rarer here, too :(

[theducks.livejournal.com]

ok, citroen-presse is just weird :)

I'm not even sure where we started doing that.

UWA's University Club still serves them though.

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

Nah they're great - you get to play with your drink until it tastes *just right*. And then you play with it some more cos it's fun. :)

[alias_sqbr]

Given that it's basically fancy cordial I suppose it's not surprising.

I unfortunately didn't discover it till after I'd stop drinking acidic drinks but it does sound tasty. I had some of the leftover sugar syrup once, it was intense :)

[rabbit1080.livejournal.com]

heehee, yes the super-saturated sugar solution is quite intense :)