"Hard candy"
Jan. 26th, 2008 05:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nancylebovAs we discovered recently, the bon bon is a very ill-defined candy, and probably needs a Venn diagram.
When I was talking about it with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dcseain, it turned out that we don't mean the same thing by "hard candy". I specifically take that to be candy made almost entirely out of sugar which is usually sucked, while dcseain includes caramels and, I think, at least some of what I consider taffy-- candies which are a chewy and possibly stuck-on-teeth experience.
We may be able to pin down a regional/cultural variation for "hard candy". "Bonbon", on the other hand, seems more like a subject for a dessertation.
When I was talking about it with
dcseain, it turned out that we don't mean the same thing by "hard candy". I specifically take that to be candy made almost entirely out of sugar which is usually sucked, while dcseain includes caramels and, I think, at least some of what I consider taffy-- candies which are a chewy and possibly stuck-on-teeth experience.We may be able to pin down a regional/cultural variation for "hard candy". "Bonbon", on the other hand, seems more like a subject for a dessertation.
