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11:42 Sep 5, 2011
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Cooking / Culinary
Spanish term or phrase:sidral
Necesitaría saber cómo denominan a este tipo de 'polvos efervescentes' en EEUU. Sidral en realidad es una marca, y con ella llamamos a estos polvos en Catalunya.
Explanation: In America "sherbet" is a frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice and sugar, but also containing milk or egg-white or gelatine. Whereas the sour powder sold in the UK as sherbet is similar to the powder in Fun Dips and Pixy Sticks in the US.
Sour candy powder has quite a few results in Google and explains exactly what the product is.
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You could always say "fun dip" powder, if you wanted to associate it to a brand. It seems Pucker Powder might also be a similar product in the US:
Pucker Powder will astonish the most critical of all owners with the amount of product that sells thru these machines. Your location will do well if you get people between the ages of 4 to 21, however don’t be surprised to see many adults filling tubes as it takes them back to their youth of eating *Pixy Stix® and *Lik-M-Aid® Fun Dip®.
Sherbet in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries is a fizzy powder, containing sugar and flavouring, and an edible acidic and base. The acid may be tartaric, citric or malic acid, and the base may be sodium bicarbonate, sodium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, or a mixture of these and/or other similar carbonates[citation needed]. To this is added a large amount of sugar to mask the unappetising flavour of the reactive powders, and fruit or cream soda flavouring.
The acid-carbonate reaction occurs upon presence of moisture (juice/saliva). Sherbet used to be stirred into various beverages to make effervescing drinks, in a similar way to making lemonade from lemonade powders, before canned carbonated drinks became ubiquitous. Sherbet is now used to mean this powder sold as a sweet. (In the United States, it would be somewhat comparable to the powder in Pixy Stix or Fun Dip, though having the fizzy quality of effervescing candy, such as Pop Rocks.)
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