quotes and questions

[Ali <Ali@zymurgy.org>]

 --- In HPFGU-OTChatter, chanteuse thalia chaunacy wrote:

 (CoSp58) strawberry-and-peanut-butter ice creams
 
 [is anyone else relatively revolted by this idea? or am i odd? is
 this a normal flavour in Britain?]
 [snip]

Pengolodh_sc replied:-
 
<< You are not odd, I believe, and it sounds like a typical flavour 
in  Britain.  After all, the British traditionally like to eat their 
 chips (i.e. French fries) seasoned with salt and malt vinegar - and 
 if you look at some British names of dishes - such as bubble-and-
 squeak, and toad-in-a-hole, and that unmentionable dessert which I 
 believe John had the pleasure of sampling last weekend - that only 
 reinforces that you are not odd, and that combining peanutbutter and 
strawberries not necessarily is out of character for the British.>>

I say:-

As a Brit, I also think it's odd to have strawberry and peanut butter 
ice cream. It doesn't sound "typically British" at all to me. What it 
does sound like though is kids having their 2 favourite scopes of ice 
cream, 1 strawberry and 1 peanut butter - perhaps wizard children can 
get this rolled into one. Funnily enough, it reminded me of spreads 
combining peanut butter and jam which are marketed as American in 
Britain.

Ali

(Who doesn't think it's odd to have chips covered in salt and 
vinegar, but does think it strange that some people like Mars bars 
deep fried in batter).