Butterbeer and Cauldron Cakes...

[mystril at yahoo.com]

Hi folks, 

As I think this conversation will almost immediately head OT, I 
figured I would post it here. 

What do you think the more interesting foods and drinks in Harry 
Potter taste like? 

Cauldron cakes to me taste like homemade chocolate cupcakes filled 
with various good substances, like cream or rasberry or peanut 
butter, etc, because there has to be something inside the cauldron. 
The closest mundane thing I can think of is Hostess Cupcakes, but 
better. 

I used to think that Butterbeer tasted like hot butterscotch, but my 
fault memory believes that they've mentioned both warm and chilled 
butterbeer. So I was stumped until I was in canoeing in Clinton and 
my boyfriend dragged me to a tea shop for a flavored tea and I had an 
iced-caramel-something-or-other-tea and I decided THAT was butterbeer.

Butterbeer could taste like Guinness for all I know, but I think it's 
sweeter/better than that. 

I think of pumpkin juice as tasting like spiced apple cider, even 
though I know it tastes like pumpkin. 

And Droobles Best Blowing Gum never loses it's flavor or gets 
uncomfortable to chew. 

Any other ideas on this?

~mystril