[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Snacks of Doom; sherbert lemon; Grammar

[yael-pou]

  Naama said re: eating raw cookie dough:

  And I would bet my last pair of socks that it's a purely 
  > American perversion. I'm sure no Israeli, at least, would even think 
  > of that (Yael - can you support me on this? And what about you Brits 
  > and other nationalities?).

  Amy: "It starts in childhood, when you make cookies with mom or dad and eat 
  the dough off your fingers.  Do Israelis not make chocolate chip 
  cookies?  Or do they actually wash their hands to get the dough off?  
  (How bizarre!)  Mmm...I ate a Cookie Dough ice cream bar on my way to 
  work this p.m.  Vanilla ice cream with chunks of cookie dough, coated 
  in chocolate."

I'd have to back up my fellow-Israeli. Having nine month of summer a year would get you as far away from the oven as humanly possible. So, we make home-made ice-cream with our children :). We do, however, have an egg-yolk-based cake frosting for milk-free Kosher cakes. Of course we eat *that* right out of the mixer. No cooking first.

Sherbet lemon - To Jim Flanagan's request, I checked the Hebrew version of Dumbledore's favourite Muggle snack. It's "KREMBO". That's a very common sweet - 3-4 inches tall, sweet biscuit on the bottom, chocolate frosting all around, and in the middle - you guessed it right. Raw egg yolk, sugared and whisked to a foam (I have no idea how this is called in English - someone please enlighten me). Same one we use on the cakes. <VBG>


  Amy: "It's easy to test for whether to use "that" or "which," too, but in 
  common usage they're often used in one another's place, so that people 
  learn a very mixed-up version."

I didn't know there was a difference *looking around, embarrassed*. Sometimes one sounds better, and sometimes the other. I'd be very happy to learn about it, if anyone feels like teaching me.

Thanks, yael

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