A very, very important question of global scope

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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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Christmas pudding.

Well no foreign country can make what I would consider a decent pudding of any sort. And finding drinkable coffee abroad can be very hard. Of course they all reckon that we are the ones who can't make decent puddings or coffee, which just goes to show how wrong headed people can be.

Regarding the Marmite discussion up above, it is now marketed in the UK as 'you either love it or hate it', since like Wagner it seems to be one of those great dividers.

Oh and I have seen honeycomb-toffee ice cream in this country, but we don't call it hokey-pokey. As far as I know, hokey-pokey is a Scottish word for all ice cream, not a particular flavour.

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* is amused to find people from two different countries complaining that "nobody else" does coffee right* :)