Agnes&Elin Forever! wrote:This would be called confectionery in English, no?
The Swedish word for this, apart from smågodis, is konfektyr
In England people don't commonly use the the word ''confectionery'' unless talking about sugar icing and cakes, although sweetshops sometimes call themselves ''confectioners''. The word ''candy'' is never used (it's an Americanism) unless talking about something specific like ''candy-floss''
at fairgrounds or as in ''cough-candy'' strongly flavoured sweets to counteract a sore throat.Every supermarket in the UK has smågodis, which is usually called here ''pick and mix''.
But in English the word ''sweet'' can also refer to ''dessert'' or more often ''pudding'' although traditional puddings like ''Spotted Dick'' (literal Swedish translation ''penis with acne'') are only a one form of dessert, which might just mean fresh fruit.
Even more confusing, some puddings like ''Steak and Kidney pudding'' are not sweet, but savoury dishes, main courses (i.e. Suet crusts or dumplings) although suet crusts can also be used in some sweet fruit dishes like pear or apple puddings.
Not to mention ''Yorkshire Puddings'' which are made from batter, and traditionally served with beef, or in dishes like ''Toad in the hole'' which amazingly enough does not consist of amphibians, but mini-sausage balls cooked in batter.
Except in Yorkshire, where Yorkshire pudding may be served as an entree, with a thick gravy as accompaniment. Believe you me, the making of a good Yorkshire pudding, crusty and light on the outside, with a firm moist but not sloppy interior is an art form in itself. Except that Yorkshire pudding is not an English invention but originated from Burgundy in France, and came over here with the Norman invasion.
A parallel for this is ''Zinfandel'' which is classed as a white wine, although is actually a rose. A sweet, light wine with the zest of strawberry. I frequently partake, myself.
The Zinfandel stock is French in origin but no longer grown or harvested in France, but in California, USA.Which brings me back to my original point.
In South Yorkshire (where I grew up) ''sweets'' as in ''smågodis'' are sometimes referred to by the older generation as ''spice'' as in ''Giz uz thy spice'' as in ''Let me take one of your sweets or else I will beat the crap out of you''
But bizarrely enough, I now live only 60 miles south near the spice capital of England, where spice actually means ''spice'' as in numerous exotic Asian spices, as used in savoury dishes, like cardomoms (don't die before you have sampled a cooked cardomom pod with an Indian vegetable dish like Binda or ''ladies fingers'').
Are you still awake?
I'm half asleep
And the relevance of this to SML/FA is ? yay, GODIS!!
(I need to get a life
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