Danish sweets/sherbet etc

[pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no]

Greetings.

I am the same person as rhodhry at yahoo.no over on the main list, but 
that address has an acute case of inbox-congestion.  My keyboard 
seems to suffer from another disorder, which at times causes it to 
disregard the fact that I have pushed a key - this can affect the 
visual impact of my spelling.

You would be interested to know that in Denmark, they have for 
decades been selling chocolate frogs.  They have a form of vanilla-
cream filling - they are made by a company called Toms 
( http://www.toms.dk/ ).  They are not particularly common here in 
Norway - Toms mostly export only their chocolate turtles to Norway.  
Unfortunately, neither chocolate frogs nor chocolate turtles come 
with wizard-cards inside (AFAIK), so there is no chance of getting a 
hold on Agrippa.

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:
> 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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