OOP - It's Butterbeer time!

[jdr0918]

No: HPFGUIDX 66294

<<<"Wildean" wrote: > "digger" wrote: ButterBEER must have beer as an 
ingredient!< Why must it? Spotted dick (as far as I know) contains no 
dick, yorkshire pudding contains nothing that is specifically part 
of "Yorkshire" and hedhehog flavoured crisps didn't REALLY contain 
hedgehog.>>>

The Sergeant Majorette says:

No, but it does have spots -- raisins, that is. It's a huge tourist 
attraction to Americans on their first visit to Britain. It is a 
completely disgusting combination of beef suet, sugar and raisins 
which really exists. Yorkshire pudding is another thing that really 
exists, which brings me to my canon obsession: exactly what are the 
various foodstuffs mentioned in the books, which are JKR inventions, 
and which are things so British they might as well have been invented?

For example, why was 'lemon drop' substituted for 'sherbet lemon' (I 
get BBC America, so I'd seen Hagrid, I mean Robbie Coltrane, eat them 
in "Cracker") but 'spotted dick' allowed to pass without 
clarification? It took me a while to figure out that 'chipolatas' are 
sausages; I still can't figure out what a 'knickerbocker glory' is 
(since it appears in the muggle world, I'm guessing it's real). And 
what about the treats Florian Fortescu serves? Is a strawberry-and-
peanut butter ice cream supposed to be weirder than a treacle tart? 
Is a 'pumpkin pasty' just a miniature pumpkin pie? In America, 
especially in the northeast, we'll do anything with pumpkins (pies, 
cakes, candies, soups, casseroles) but the raw juice? Dandelion 
flower wine, yes; dandelion greens for salad, yes; dandelion juice? 
If it's from the greens, it might not be safe raw --too much oxalic 
acid-- or is it more like pot liquor (the cooking liquid left over 
after boiling greens)?

English cuisine is fairly scary under the most normal of 
circumstances (in re maggoty haggis: most people on this planet would 
rather eat the maggots than the haggis): add the complication of 
magic and you have enough material for a Book VIII that I'd line up 
to buy.

--JDR (thinking she'll try brewing up some butterbeer)