[HPforGrownups] Rejoice, for another candy debate cometh!

[Doreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 12984


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: naama_gat at hotmail.com 
  To: HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 12:22 PM
  Subject: [HPforGrownups] Rejoice, for another candy debate cometh!


  Hi,

  I've just finished reading CoS and found an intriguing and 
  wonderfully unimportant discrepancy (well, intriguing may be putting 
  it too high.. but after the lemon drop-sherbet-boiled-sweet debate - 
  which interested me! - I'm confident the obsessiveness level here is 
  quite high enough to suck this candy dry too!)

  Anyway, here it is:
  On page 88 (British edition) of CoS Hagrid offers "a plate of treacle 
  *fudge*". Then on the next page Harry can't talk because "Hagrid's 
  treacle *toffee* has cemented his jaws together" and (p. 90) Hagrid 
  offers Ron some treacle *toffee*, while on page 91 it says that Harry 
  was hungry since he "only had one bit of treacle *fudge* since dawn." 
  To complicate matters, on page 159 Harry receives "a large tin of 
  treacle fudge, which Harry decided to soften by the fire before 
  eating." 

  Now, I've eaten fudge and I've eaten toffee and, a) they're 
  different, and b) only toffee can make your teeth stick together. So, 
  is there a deep, dark mystery here (for instance, have we discovered 
  that Brits call toffee fudge?) or is it just a simple, uninteresting 
  editorial mistake?

  Naama 
  In the US edition, it is "treacle fudge" in all of your quotes. What DO the Brits call it? treacle fudge or treacle toffee?
  Maybe the fact that it was made by Hagrid has something to do with it sticking their teeth together. He was not the greatest cook. :)

  I thought that treacle was a syrup ... not a fudge or a toffee. 
  Neil ... help!

  Doreen who is also not the greatest cook













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