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

[grahame.livejournal.com]

Iced coffee is pretty much a WA thing, at least in the form sold by Brownes / Masters.

[loic.livejournal.com]

I miss it terribly.

[capnoblivious.livejournal.com]

You can get iced coffee everywhere in Australia, but it was the most popular soft drink in SA when I was growing up. Farmer's Union got bought out and it's no longer the same, alas.

[alias_sqbr]

Like a lot of this stuff it seems such an obvious flavour combination it's hard to imagine people not making it. I guess "obvious" is a very culturally constructed idea :)