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!

Comments

[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 :)