The Original Butter Beer Recipe

[Geoff]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "bboyminn" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:

bboyminn:
> Warner even implied that it own the rights to all the food 
> mentioned in the HP books, even though as this butter beer
> recipe shows, many of the foods in the books pre-date Harry
> Potter; as well as treacle tarts, pumpkin pasties, and many
> others. 

Geoff:
Hm.

'He (Harry) had never seen so many things he liked to eat on 
one table: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, 
sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, chips, 
Yorkshire puddings, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup and, for some 
strange reason, mint humbugs.....

...A moment later the puddings  appeared. Blocks of ice-cream in 
every flavour you could think of, apple pies, treacle tarts, chocolate 
éclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, jelly, rice pudding....'
(PS "The Sorting Hat" pp. 92/93 UK edition)

If they're going to lay claim to that lot, their legal eagles are going to 
be verrry busy.

Plus the fact a group of very angry people armed with tennis rackets 
will be travelling from Wimbledon to do them over.
:-)