[HPforGrownups] Re: Brit Speak: Garden of Sherbert & Evil

Tina Snell tsnell at brandeis.edu
Thu Jul 11 23:56:22 UTC 2002


No: HPFGUIDX 41065

Gulplum wrote:
"No, sherbert has got nothing to do with ice cream. Why should you 
think it has? It is the stuff in the middle of sherbert lemons (inter 
alia). "

I can clear this up, as I used to work in an Ice cream store. :) In the US, Sorbet is pure fruit. Just fruit mashed & mixed up. Sherbet is sorbet + milk. 

In other words, if you're lactose-intolerant, you can have Sorbet, but not Sherbet.

-Tina


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