[HPforGrownups] Sherbet lemon (getting OT) Sweets...

[Denise R]

No: HPFGUIDX 12961

I recall an exploding candy in the late 70's-early 80's that's making a
comeback if IRC, called Pop Rocks.

There used to be Urban Legend about not drinking them with Coke (not true)
because it made the kids blow up.

I wonder if that's the centre that Neil is talking about?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Lewanski" <editor at texas.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2001 9:11 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Sherbet lemon (getting OT)


> 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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