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

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Actually, American root beer often does not have sarsaparilla in it, even if it is natural. Sometimes it does though. Also, we have birch beer as well.

http://www.greydragon.org/library/brewing_root_beer.html

Pumpkin pie doesn't have cream in it necessarily. I mean you can make it with sweetened, condensed milk, but you don't have to.

But, do you have orange fleshed winter squash in general? Like just for roasting? Or no?

[fred-mouse.livejournal.com]

what alias_sqbr doesn't know, is that root beer is readily available here, just not in the supermarkets - it is commonly available in places that cater to immigrant Asian populations. Sometimes, it is even possible to get A&W root beer.

There are lots of different 'squash' available here, most of which are called pumpkin! I was bemused when my brother-in-law told me that Canadians don't do pumpkin soup, and then promptly bought what I thought was a pumpkin, and made us squash soup!

[wintal.livejournal.com]

We don't call it winter squash... probably because it's not seasonal here ;)

[alias_sqbr]

Yes, but it's almost always used in a savoury way.