[HPforGrownups] Sherbet lemon (getting OT)

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 12940

> Amy Z wrote:

> > BTW, I've been going along thinking that sherbet lemon IS a lemon
> > drop, since that's how it got "translated" in book 2 (? brain-fog here
> > too--I think it was 2).  But it isn't, is it?

Amanda suggested:

> Yes. Sherbet lemon is Brit for lemon drop.

Despite the compelling evidence presented by Amanda, lemon drops and sherbet
lemons are not the same thing.  A lemon drop is a solid boiled sweet (US:
hard candy?) and a sherbet lemon (or lemon sherbet) is similar but with a
centre full of effervescent sherbet  powder; often called just a 'sherbet'.
I guess the US translators got a bit confused somewhere along the way...

There's also a sherbet fountain (or liquorice fountain) - a paper tube of
sherbet powder with a hollow 'straw' of liquorice stuck in it, through which
you suck the powder. Oh, and Flying Saucers - multi-coloured rice paper
'UFOs' containing sherbet powder.  I'm not sure if they are still around,
but I have fond memories of these sweets from my childhood... and, yes, I
still have all my own teeth.

Neil

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