Bonbons

[mofette]

Because meltie is wrong.

[Poll #280923]

Comments

[canudiglett]

They're hard but they're sugary so they go soft quite soon after sticking them in your mouth.

[mofette.livejournal.com]

but you can't chew them straight away, and they stick to your teeth, yes?

[canudiglett]

That would be correct, yes!

[sarcaustik.livejournal.com]

Does that make them hard? I wasn't sure but I suppose it does. *Changes answer*.

[jenova-red.livejournal.com]

Erm, well... both?

I've had lemon bonbons (with sherbet in the middle) and the were hard! But I've also had some icky icky gross ones that were chewy!

O_o

[mofette.livejournal.com]

um... if the soft ones were icky, then they're supposed to be hard, yes? :)

[jenova-red.livejournal.com]

Ooh, no, they were supposed to be soft! They didn't have sherbet in them, they were like chewy things with a little bit of powdered sugar or something on the outside!

I'm going back nearly 20 years here! :)

Oh my god. I feel old now that I've typed that!

[jenova-red.livejournal.com]

I've found them!

http://www.oldsweetshop.com/trolleyed/5/

Chewy!

[thegreatgonzo.livejournal.com]

You need a "both"

This is what I think of
http://www.sugarboy.co.uk/sweets.asp?sweet=10468

[mofette.livejournal.com]

I didn't think about that ;)

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Your both right and wrong......

It's a hard shell covered in suger, so it's a 'hard sweet' however it soon becomes soft sticky and goey, witha goey center unlike a boiled sweet so it's soft.

[drreagan.livejournal.com]

Aren't they a type of chimpanzee?

[jenova-red.livejournal.com]

That's a BONOBO! :D

http://williamcalvin.com/teaching/bonobo.htm

Hee!

[drreagan.livejournal.com]

Damn.. thats almost the same word! And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling goths!

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

On my desk here I have Pascal Fruit bonbons. They have a hard shell, but are squidgy inside. They come in lots of flavours and are wrapped in quite thick paper.

However, when I were a nipper, one could buy bonbons in lemon/strawberry flavour which were an entirel different sweet. Powdery outside covering a toffee inside. e.g. here

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

That's the sort I thought of and there isn't a 'both' to pick!

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

I picked "soft" but only because I associated them with being bonbons first! The other ones were just boiled sweets as far as I was concerned for years..

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Your right.... there are the bonbons which are a sort of boiled sweet in a hard shell with a really soft almost liquid center. They tend to be square

And then there are the round ones with a dusting of sugar that stick to your teeth.

Man, lemon bon bons. They were class.

[sparklielizard.livejournal.com]

Going to that site has made me hungry. There seem to be far too many new and exciting types of powdery bonbon to try now!

[steer.livejournal.com]

Bonbons are kind of both - I tick soft because they have that kind of gumminess to them - they're not hard like boiled sweets or hard toffee. More like soft toffee or very macho fudge.

[juresa.livejournal.com]

Both! but mainly hard

[mofette.livejournal.com]

pick hard then :)

[web-kitten.livejournal.com]

soft I guess? Theyre covered in chocolate, and thats not rock hard... but the stuff inside is soft and squishy.

[mofette.livejournal.com]

um... the ones in England aren't chocolate covered!!

[web-kitten.livejournal.com]

So I can see be other responses... I just wanted to be difficult gaijin ^o^

[big-daz.livejournal.com]

Toffee Bonbons are soft & sugary on the outside with toffee on the inside which gets softer the more you suck on it..

[meltie.livejournal.com]

They're MEANT to be soft, but they're hard nowadays.

MEANT TO BE SOFT GODDAMN YOU THIS IS THE EARTH OOOOOOOOOOOHH *HOWL*

[tacd.livejournal.com]

Aren't bonbons the same as boiled sweets?