SC - Every-Flavor Beans and Other Wizard Treats

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> Me:  > In the place of Every Flavour Beans I bought the 39-flavor mixed Jelly Belly
> > beans, which come in a dizzying variety of taste treats whilst omitting the
> > dangers of earwax and lasagne flavors.
>
> Lasagne, eh? I knew I forgot something...

OK, I made that up.  But whether Rowlings mentioned it or not, it's in there!

There are Jelly Belly beans that taste just plain odd.  You either love their Buttered
Popcorn beans or you hate them.  I can't take their particularly intense cinnamon
beans if I have an intention of tasting anything else for at least five minutes
afterwards.

> > Butter Beer I'm still contemplating.  OK, it's suitable for serving to minors,
> > but gets house-elves tipsy, and can be served hot or cold.  "Butter" sounds like
> > an unlikely ingredient for a water-soluble brew, but possibly that's a reference
> > to the color?  When I get the time [after Iron Chef], perhaps I will put
> > something together with root beer and butter/butterscotch extracts in fizzy
> > water.
>
> Emulsifiers, my friend, emulsifiers. I'm thinking of a sweet milk stout
> mulled with a hot iron, with a pat of butter swirled in. I don't
> remember if butter beer is warm or cool, but since even cool beer in
> Britain isn't very cold, this could work. On the other hand, there is a
> moderately common (normally undesirable) by-product of the fermentation
> of top-fermented ales, which makes the ale taste of butter, some kind of
> volatile ester. Maybe Rowlings is a home brewer.

I've seen it mentioned being served both hot at cold.  It can't be any more alcoholic
than ginger beer or root beer if the kiddies are drinking it.

> > Most of the other foods mentioned in the Harry books has been pretty standard
> > English fare, with the occasional twist.  Did you notice that the Yorkshire
> > Pudding gave Ron a North Country dialect for the next few lines?
>
> I missed that, I'll have to go back. Which book is it in?
>
> Adamantius (fourth-book deprived until next week)

It's in the fourth book, naturally. So was the bit about a depressed house-elf hitting
the butter beer pretty hard.  It's not a huge spoiler, forgive me?

I'm still waiting to see a 'spotted dog' pudding that wags its tail.

Selene Colfox
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