Butterbeer and Cauldron Cakes...

[Milz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., mystril at y... wrote:
> 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

I think in the UK 'cupcakes' are called 'fairy cakes'. But that's what 
I think a cauldron cake is. Maybe not cream filled, but definitely a 
little pound cake type thing with icing. A friend of mine had the 
impression that they were like rice cakes---dry and crunchy. 

Butterbeer gives me the impression that its sort of like cream soda 
(don't know if they have that in the UK), maybe not very carbonated. 

I think of carrot juice when I read pumpkin juice. Carrot juice is 
surprizingly nice, especially if it's freshly made in an electric 
juicer. But your version of it as sort of like spiced apple cider 
seems much nicer.

Milz