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

[bunny-m.livejournal.com]

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 :)

Not necessarily. I was born here in Perth and have lived here all my life, but I can't stand Vegemite. (Or pavlova, lamingtons, beer...)

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I will eat Vegemite, but I prefer Marmite (the NZ version). Does that make me a bad Australian?

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Huh. I thought Marmite was the UK version.

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Original Marmite is from the UK. It's in that squat glass jar with the green label. Apparently it's saltier than Vegemite.

Sanitarium in NZ also make a spread that they call Marmite - which comes in a plastic container with a red and blue label, and it's LESS salty than Vegemite.

[theducks.livejournal.com]

Yes, get out.

:)

[alias_sqbr]

Get Out.

(Nah, just kidding. I don't like beer or beaches or sport so I understand the general principle)