Food...

[deird1]

If I have someone eat:
ice-cream garnished with chocolate topping, Twinkies, syrup, and Snickers Bars

...ignoring how completely ridiculous that combination is, do the individual items listed sound like things you'd have in California?

Or do I need to change some of them?

Comments

[deird1]

Oh, good!

I thought they probably were, but figured I'd better make sure...

[herosquad]

We have all that stuff here, yep.

[deird1]

Thanks!

[sageharper]

What do you mean by chocolate topping; sprinkles/sauce/other?
Beyond that, yes you can get all those in any part of America.

However twinkes are about the size of my thumb (snickers are quite large too but could withstand being chopped ... spongecake with creamy goo inside, maybe not so much). So it would be a really odd looking concoction and possibly not work well in that sense.

[deird1]

Uh... sauce? I think?

And yes, I'm well aware that this would taste weird. But the character in question has a habit of inventing things like "peanut-butter-and-banana quesadillas", so I think it fits. :)

[salienne]

For 'sauce', you'd probably want to put "chocolate syrup". Also, you might want to specify that it's "Twinkie pieces" and "Snickers pieces", or something to that effect, although it's more or less understood.

[sageharper]

Ah ok

Yeah I didn't mean the taste, but the appearence and that such huge chunks of topping would be overpowering. So it's the mental image that'd make me pause for thought.

[darthfox]

We do have all those things, though as someone upthread asks, I'm not sure how "chocolate topping" is different from "syrup" (though this whole conversation is making me hungry [g]). (Also, I wouldn't hyphenate "ice cream" nor capitalize "bars", myself.)

[deird1]

I was thinking more maple-syrupy stuff with "syrup". Do I need to be more specific about that?

[darthfox]

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't understand "syrup" to mean maple syrup automatically unless it's going on breakfast -- and possibly not even then, because there's so much fake nasty bottled syrup out there (sometimes with maple flavor, but not usually) that is technically "breakfast syrup" but could just be called "syrup" by itself, so if you mean maple syrup you might need to specify. Especially since in an ice cream context, I'd understand "syrup" to mean chocolate syrup unless something else were specified, so as you've seen chocolate topping + syrup = wait, what?

:-)

[deird1]

Okay, thanks! *frantically changes words*

[mokusan]

The only problem I see here is, as others mentioned, "topping." Is it a syrup (which you can typically find in strawberry and butterscotch flavors as well), or is it a hardened chocolate layer, or sprinkles, etc.?

[deird1]

...what if I said "chocolate sauce"? Would that sound right?

[mokusan]

That sounds right to me! :)

[deird1]

Hooray! *fixes story*