British sweets/sherbet etc

[Neil Ward]

Okay, here are a few comments on things raised in the sherbet lemon thread over on the main list:

I don't think we anything like Lemonheads over here, but I'm interested to learn the origin of the name of Evan Dando's former band.

Pixie Stiks are not the same thing as sherbet fountains.  From Rita's description, I recognised these things - they are thin straws containing tangy, coloured sugar, right?  

A sherbet fountain looks like a firework.  The base is made of stiff paper and it's a tube about 6 inches long and 2 inches in diameter.  This tube is filled with sherbet powder.  Sticking out of the top of the (sealed) tube is a hollow length of solid, black liquorice, about 3 inches long.  You suck the powder through the liquorice and then eat the liquorice.  

It would be so much easier to just hand these things round; trying to describe them is getting very complicated!  I think I will have to check out the sweetshops and see if I can't put together some samples to send to people (assuming these things all exist still - I have a feeling acid drops may have been renamed in the name of PC <g>).

Neil
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