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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[fe2h2o.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Lemon Cordial...

Cordial (the name) is used in a few places (Raspberry Cordial is in Anne of Green Gables, I have seen recipes for Cordials as a kind of alcoholic beverage).

I was looking for a recipe so I could make some, and all the recipes I came across were Australian. I figure it's really very similar to lemonade (as in lemonade stand), so it's mostly a difference in name rather than substance (although, at least citric acid is critical in lemon cordial).

[alias_sqbr]

My english grandma always called lemon cordial "lemonade" which led to many disappointments as a child ("Hey Sophie, want some lemonade?" "Yes please!...oh") Wikipedia says they call it "squash".

I've had Koolaid and it is Not The Same.