[HPforGrownups] Brit Speak: Garden of Sherbert & Evil

[Bernadette M. Crumb]

No: HPFGUIDX 41057


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>    Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:57:46 -0000
>    From: "bboy_mn" <bboy_mn at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Brit Speak: Garden of Sherbert & Evil
>
> Ignore that title, it was just my warped attempt at some humor.
>
> Subject: Brit Speak-
>
> 1.) Gardens - British people seem to have an aweful lot of
gardens;
> gardens in front, gardens in back, gardens everywhere. This
makes me
> wonder if the British don't use the term 'garden' differently
that
> Americans.
SNIP
> Can someone clear this up for me?

What we American's call a "yard" is what the Brits call a garden.
They also call a vegetable garden a garden too, so it can get a
bit confusing.  Just think "yard" when you see garden and it will
make more sense. :)

> 2.) Sherbert - OK, we already have the distiction between
'sherbert
> lemon' and 'lemon drops'. Sherber Lemon is a hard lemon candy
that has
> a powered effervescent (fizzy) center. To any Americans who
can't
> quite comprehend 'fizzing' candy; think of 'Pop Rocks'.
>
> Now 'Frizzing Wizzbees' which is a sherbert. So is it a
sherbert in
> the American sense of ice cream like substance, or in is it in
the
> Britsh sense of a hard candy with a fizzing center?
>
> Anybody have any idea? As an American, I understood the
'sherbert
> lemon' distiction but alway assumed 'Frizzing Wizzbees' was ice
cream
> sherbert. ???????

Sherbet Lemons are wonderful! I miss eating them and can't afford
to import any of them from England.  Anyway, what we call
"sherbet" in America is something called "sorbet" in England to
the best of my recollection from the four years I lived there.
So Fizzing Wizzbees, like Sherbet Lemons, are a hard candy with a
fizzy center--except, of course, Fizzing Wizzbees have magical
effects on the consumer and Sherbet Lemons don't!

JKR must have a great set of childhood memories of things like
the candies and all considering the amount of wizarding
equivalents she's created for them!

Bernadette
(Back from vacation and ready to take another!)