[Sca-cooks] OOP - Drakey, can you settle a small bet?
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Mon Dec 10 06:28:19 PST 2007
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]
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