A very, very important question of global scope

[alias_sqbr]

So I was looking up recipes for hokey-pokey icecream today and was overcome by an almost inconceivable suspicion: it's not eaten in America! Or in fact anywhere beyond the Pacific region!

Is this true? Because you guys are missing out. On the plus side afaict it's just made by mixing vanilla icecream with honeycomb (or "sponge toffee", which sounds terrible), though I plan to make it with butterscotch flavoured icecream(*).

What are the foods/recipes from a country you've lived in which you can't believe people overseas don't eat?

Personally I have trouble understanding how people can not like vegemite, but intellectually I can see how it might be something you need to have grown up with :)

(*)When I can find somewhere that sells oat/almond milk and honeycomb, Coles having neither this evening. Bah!

Comments

[violetsquirrel.livejournal.com]

Jelly babies, not necessarily because they taste particularly good but just as a cultural thing.

I was just having this conversation the other day and now I can't remember any of the others :(

[stephiepenguin.livejournal.com]

other countries don't have jelly babies?

[violetsquirrel.livejournal.com]

I know, right. America doesn't and I don't know about anywhere else that isn't Australia or the UK. The Middleman creators used them as a reference to Doctor Who, which I didn't even realise was meant to be a reference because they're just jelly babies...

[grahame.livejournal.com]

I think they're pretty much an Australia / UK / New Zealand thing.