Lemon sherbets/Lemon drops - clarification

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 12964

I think it's fair enough to keep this thread here, given its huge importance to our understanding of the canon. ;-)  However, I've also posted a response to some of the more OT stuff on British sweets (relating to things raised in this thread) in our OTChatter area: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter.  Anyone who hasn't joined yet, please check it out.  

**Lemon drops are solid, lemon-flavoured, hard (i.e. break-yer teeth crunchy) sugar candy.  I'm sure Amanda was joshing about her puzzlement over the term 'boiled sweet,' but, for the record, the term relates to the production process: if you boil sugar and leave it to cool, it goes hard.  There are other flavours of drops: 'pear drops' are, indeed pear-flavoured hard candies and another common variety is 'acid drops' (hold your letters of complaint: they don't contain LSD or sulphuric acid;  they are of no particular flavour, but very sharp in taste).

**Sherbet lemons have a case of lemon-flavoured hard candy and a core of sherbet powder.  The powder is effervescent, but not in the same way as the pops-on-your-tongue stuff some people have described (which is 'star dust' or the substance that's featured in the new 'Wonka' chocolate bars over here); it's like tangy powdered sugar (cf. icing sugar or Alka Seltzer, i.e. not granulated).  Just to confuse the issue even more, there is *another* kind, in which the shell is also infused with sherbet and tends to tingle on the tongue. At the start of PS, Dumbledore is eating lemon sherbets, which could be the former or the latter, IMO.

Amanda questioned my possession of teeth.  There are pictures of me in the Files section (one Snapified and one posing with a copy of CoS), but I didn't think to bare my teeth for those.  I assure you though, I can bite...

Neil
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