Food mentioned in BSC books

[lilafowler]

^The way I like to do it is with the very little Milky Ways (like 1"x1" squares) -- stick like three or four of them in the freezer for a few minutes so that the nougat freezes but doesn't go completely solid. If I use anything larger, it takes so long to freeze that I forget about it and by the time I remember and go get it, it is way too hard to eat.

[booboobrewer]

nic said:

I remember Stacey talking about freezing milky ways and saying they tasted like frozen chocolate milkshakes. I tried it out and although they tasted pretty good, they weren't like frozen chocolate milkshakes!

I never understood this. She said it was like "biting" into a frozen chocolate milkshake. Who freezes their milkshakes? Am I missing out on something tremendous by preferring to drink mine instead of biting into it?

[macca]

^ maybe she meant thickshakes? But then, you don't bite those either. Funny! I never actually realised how odd the "frozen chocolate milkshake" comment was!

[inge]

macca said:

Funny! I never actually realised how odd the "frozen chocolate milkshake" comment was!

me neither! maybe because I was too busy with daydreaming about chocolate milkshakes and milky ways by then...

[sotypical42483]

Ooh I froze candy bars after reading it in a BSC book, but I froze them solid, like I'd leave them in there for hours. So biting into them was impossible and I'd kinda chisel away at it with a fork til a bit broke off, then I'd eat it. But by that time, it was so frozen that a lot of the flavor was lost and yeah... it wasn't good. I see there's a finer technique to it though

[jen]

I've made frozen soft drinks and frozen coffees and chocolate drinks, but never tried a milkshake... Would it still have the same milkshake texture? Has anyone tried it? Hmm.

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Wouldn't a frozen milkshake pretty much just be ice cream?

[jen]

But wouldn't it be harder, and more solid?

[sugarmonkey]

I put a milky way in the freezer yesterday for a few minutes. I lost some flavor.

[sotypical42483]

I think we're reading too much into the frozen milkshake thing... did they really mean FROZEN solid? They couldn't have. I always just took it to be a normal milkshake. OR maybe more like a Frostie!

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sotypical42483 said:

OMG I had no clue that 'smores weren't a world-wide treat.

I'm in New Zealand, and most people here know what they are! Though in my experience, most people will just eat a roasted marshmallow on its own here. Although with fire restrictions during summer, and cold, wet weather in winter, people don't tend to roast marshmallows all that much.

I think I learned what they were from Barney the Dinosaur when I was about 4. I thought they were pretty widespread in English speaking countries, but maybe they infiltrated New Zealand more than Australia for some reason!

On topic - In the Karen books, there's one that's pretty much all about Nannie's "Chocolate Magic" which was some sort of chocolate dipping sauce. After reading the book at the Library recently I actually went and bought chocolate and marchmallows to melt and dip.

[wanderingfrog]

starrynight said:

I freeze Milky Ways all the time.....and they're definitely not like Mars Bars!

Huh? I always thought that Milky Ways and Mars Bars were almost exactly the same!

There's a subtle difference, though... I'm not sure what it is, but I like Mars Bars better.

[liss31d]

Hasn't mars bars got some toffee in it as well, while a milky way doesn't or something?

[jen]

Yeah, I thought Mars bars had the layer of caramel...

[Deleted]

I just mentioned the Milky Way/ mars bars thing because here a milky way is a bar with a light chocolate coating and fluffy stuff inside, while a mars is chocolate, nougat and caramel. I went to the US for the summer and when I bought a Milky Way there, it turned out to be what I would have called a Mars bar (nougat and caramel instead of milky fluff stuff)