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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[wintal.livejournal.com]

Drip-filter coffee.

It's amazing how bad (ok, maybe I should say 'different') coffee is in lots of places.

American in general has an addiction to drip-filter coffee which I find bizarre... then they have starbucks which has practically nothing on the menu that represents coffee.

Singapore was also pretty damn hard to find an acceptable cup.

The 'flat white' seems to be an entirely aussie thing too.

[alias_sqbr]

I read a book recently where one character kept referring to another's "Double latte frappachino"s as milkshakes, and that's totally what they are :)