[HPforGrownups] Sherbet lemon (getting OT)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 12956

Neil Ward wrote:

> A lemon drop is a solid boiled sweet (US:hard candy?)

I've wondered about this ever since I read Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory as a child, where there was a boat made from a giant boiled
sweet. If you boil them, they'd melt, wouldn't they? I'm still confused.

> 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...

Or took the closest analogue. There may not be something exactly like
this; I've never had anything like it. A true lemon drop is hard candy,
all the way through. I've never had Lemonheads.

> 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...

Sounds like Pixie Stix, but they were just paper straws with tangy
powder inside, no candy tube. I still love Pixie Stix--kind of powdered
SweeTarts. They both make my teeth hurt (so do margaritas, alas).

Effervescent means it fizzes, kind of like Alka-Seltzer (or for those of
you old and weird enough, Fizzies). Our Pixy Stick powder is tart/sweet,
but it doesn't effervesce.

Want to make a care package of samples of these dainties and send them
to us poor benighted folk marooned in the uncivilized wilds of Texas...?
I'll distribute....

> and, yes, I still have all my own teeth.

I note the conspicuous absence of the confirmation that said teeth are,
in fact, in place in your mouth....

--Amanda


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