[Sca-cooks] OOP - Drakey, can you settle a small bet?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Well, not exactly a bet, just a burning question...

In the USA there is a commercial product consisting of a jar of white  
stuff resembling silicon bathroom tile caulking compound -- a slightly  
aerated white goo, extremely sweet, with a faint burnt-sugar flavor  
and perhaps a little pseudo-vanilla thrown in. I gather the idea is  
that this product can be spread on cakes, or even bread, used in  
S'mores, or served over ice cream. Some have alleged it can be used as  
some sort of sexual aid, for those so inclined. I'm not seeing it, but  
I'm notoriously prudish in certain respects.

This product is known as Marshmallow Fluff.

http://www.marshmallowfluff.com/pages/homepage.html

Now, while I am well aware of the popular conception that any  
confection made in the non-American portion of the English-speaking  
world is invariably superior to any and all American-made  
counterparts, I'm also aware that this is largely hogwash, and that  
the extended homelands of Smarties and Cadbury Flake are quite as  
capable of confectionary war atrocities as anyone in the USA. But, of  
course, it's easy to become sentimental about one's own... urm...  
stuff. Smarties are great and all, but I've eaten English ice cream,  
for example, and the aphorism that things taste better when made with  
lard is _not_ always applicable.

Well, the question is, does the UK/Australian/New Zealand portion of  
the world have an equivalent product to Marshmallow Fluff (or possibly  
even the same product) ? I was figuring there'd be something roughly  
equivalent, possibly with a cool-sounding name like Fizzy Blort-O...

Hmmm... if there isn't something already called Fizzy Blort-O, there  
definitely should be.

Adamantius
["Fizzy Blort-O" copyright Philip W. Troy 2007, all rights reserved]