SC - Honeycomb (confectionary) - question to the list

[Elysant at aol.com]

- -Poster: <Elysant at aol.com> 
 
> So this is what is sold at Irish country fairs under the name Yellow
> Man? A hard-crack sugar and/or honey syrup that is carbonated as it
> cools? Bubbly hard candy?
 
> Adamantius
 
"Crunchy" as we call it in Britain is sold as in the shape of a long thinnish 
bar (square if seen end on) of this honeycomb "stuff" covered with milk 
chocolate.  Cross cut, it is yellow, solid, firmish on the dry and crunchy 
rather than chewy side and is slightly crumbly.  It has some variations of 
the yellow colouring through it, and the composition of it generally looks 
like tiny to extremely tiny sticky dried bubbles or a sticky dense dried 
foam.  If you bite it it quickly disintegrates to a honey toffee flavour and 
it coats your teeth and is hard to come off (I can see it pulling a loose 
filing out with it).

It tastes of honey.... and it's yummy - but very sweet :-)  

I'm wondering how close it is to kracknel - or is that something totally 
different?

Elysant