tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post1604608722218677986..comments2024-03-16T11:43:21.644+02:00Comments on NAMI-NAMI: a food blog: A little bit of sunshine: Orange Sorbet, sprinkled with pistachiosPillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-81184971071176342632007-10-24T10:53:00.000+03:002007-10-24T10:53:00.000+03:00K&S – the sherbert/sorbet/sherbet (so many ways to...K&S – the sherbert/sorbet/sherbet (so many ways to spell it!) was healthy indeed – yes, there was sugar, but then it also contained freshly squeezed vitamin-rich orange juice, and that’s it!<BR/><BR/>Lydia – we suspected as much. Note that I haven’t had Fanta for years, but somehow the memories of that drink popped into my head when slurping this sorbet..<BR/><BR/>Gloria – thank you! And same here – I drink water most. <BR/><BR/>Tanna – LOL! I should actually check out what the Fanta Orange of today consists of here in Estonia!<BR/><BR/>Alanna - chemical-flavored liquid over chemical-flavored breakfast cereal may make sense, but it surely tastes horrid! Do you think she is still alive????<BR/><BR/>Angelina – there’s a question to the legislators!<BR/><BR/>Anita – it didn’t resemble orange juice, but orange soda. But if you think of this sorbet, then it’s half orange juice, quarter water (dilutes the orange flavour) and quarter sugar (sweetens the juice), so it’s like orange soda indeed. But then orange juice wasn’t available during Soviet time either, so orange soda was the closest thing to the ‘real stuff’ anyway..<BR/><BR/>Homesick Texan – it’d be interesting to see if there are other Fanta Orange versions out there!<BR/><BR/>Lydia - thank you!<BR/><BR/>Trig – somehow orange sorbet sounds so much more appealing than wasabi ice cream, you know :) <BR/><BR/>Rachael – yes, I did J But I think I turned out pretty ok :) <BR/><BR/>Lobstersquad – well, our minds can make most curious connections…<BR/><BR/>Ronell – welcome to Nami-nami! The colour of this sorbet was incredible indeed – soooo yellow and bright!<BR/><BR/>PawPaw – thank you – I’m glad you like the photo!<BR/><BR/>SwirlingNotions – I never thought of that. But then I’ve never had a Dreamsicle in my life :)<BR/><BR/>Susan – it’s surely a great colour combination!<BR/><BR/>Figs Olives Wine – who knows :)<BR/><BR/>Jeanne – thank you for your informative comment! Mid 1990s was when McDonalds came to Estonia, too. Thanks for the information on Fanta Naartjie – it’s so cool to read about those regional varieties!Pillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05817049547134774699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-18125513382612389302007-10-22T18:51:00.000+03:002007-10-22T18:51:00.000+03:00What a lovely photo - and a fascinating history le...What a lovely photo - and a fascinating history lesson of consumer products behind the Iron Curtain ;-) Pepsi withdrew from South Africa in the 1980s during the anti-apartheid sanctions (which also meant we did not have McDOnalds until the mid 1990s - FACT!) so as kids we really didn't know it that well (when they tried to re-enter the market about 10 years ago they had to give up as the simply could not compete with Coke's established distribution channels!). <BR/><BR/>Anyhow, as it was a Coke product I DID grow up with Fanta and ours definitely also had a small percentage of orange juice - 6% sticks in the mind but I could be wrong. We even had a regional flavour - Fanta Naartjie, with a naartjie being roughly the equivalent of a clementine. <BR/><BR/>I'm always fascinated by the differences in taste between the same product manufactured in different places. I used to think I was imagining it, but I swore that Bovril tasted different in South Africa and England over the past few years. Turns out the ingredients were different - because of BSE, the English version had to stop using beef stock while the SA version didn't. The UK version has only now re-introduced beef stock to the ingredients.Jeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12325204219395014329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-16748708732382459732007-10-19T14:11:00.000+03:002007-10-19T14:11:00.000+03:00How fabulous to associate sodas with terms of US. ...How fabulous to associate sodas with terms of US. Presidents! I think there's a book in that somewhere...Figs, Bay, Winehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15453787426889071004noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-56853117400906195982007-10-19T02:30:00.000+03:002007-10-19T02:30:00.000+03:00Oranges and pistachios are great together, aren't ...Oranges and pistachios are great together, aren't they? I just made a salad with them in it. I'd love to try this sorbet for dessert now.Susan from Food Bloggahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11034518858688958369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-31109859437308459072007-10-19T01:19:00.000+03:002007-10-19T01:19:00.000+03:00Great photo Pille . . . and what a wild perspectiv...Great photo Pille . . . and what a wild perspective on Fanta. You could serve this with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and it would be like a Dreamsicle :-).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-74559153718633098442007-10-18T18:56:00.000+03:002007-10-18T18:56:00.000+03:00Love your photo..the colors are brilliant.Fanta wa...Love your photo..the colors are brilliant.<BR/>Fanta was my fav. childhood drink.Nails...etcetera with Priscilla !https://www.blogger.com/profile/11826189004718386388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-26711834613899002632007-10-18T18:11:00.000+03:002007-10-18T18:11:00.000+03:00I found your blog via the WHB. Love your sorbet, i...I found your blog via the WHB. Love your sorbet, it looks divine, the colours are beautiful and I can just imagine how light it will be after a warm winter meal!<BR/>RonellAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-66991399859288906532007-10-18T10:42:00.000+03:002007-10-18T10:42:00.000+03:00never even suspected there was real orange juice i...never even suspected there was real orange juice in fanta! very interesting. I was more of a lemon fanta girl, anyway, so I´m not sure I´d make the mental leap either. sorbet looks lovelylobstersquadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16130188841853502828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-90311818270775578902007-10-18T01:45:00.000+03:002007-10-18T01:45:00.000+03:00Oh wow. It took this post for me to register you g...Oh wow. It took this post for me to register you grew up in a Soviet Bloc country! What an incredible (and incredibly foriegn to me) thing!<BR/><BR/>Fanta, to me, is an altogeher Latin beverage. It makes me think of Mexico, Argentina and Spain...but now, I include Estonia.<BR/><BR/>Your sorbet looks amazing! I must try some as soon as we get a heat spell...Rachael Narinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01238568846727058398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-26475983289582116292007-10-17T21:21:00.000+03:002007-10-17T21:21:00.000+03:00You know I don't think I've ever actually had an o...You know I don't think I've ever actually had an orange sorbet before. It seems a bit silly because I've had so many foreward-thinking creations like wasabi ice cream for example but I've never had something as simple as orange. I'm afriad since the move to Barcelona I'm no longer in possession of a churner so I don't imagine I'll be making any any time soon.Trighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01386804439578267100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-43655916729387728922007-10-17T20:22:00.000+03:002007-10-17T20:22:00.000+03:00The picture is beautiful....The dessert looks divi...The picture is beautiful....The dessert looks divine!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-68029631156763187112007-10-17T19:44:00.000+03:002007-10-17T19:44:00.000+03:00What an interesting history of sodas behind the Ir...What an interesting history of sodas behind the Iron Curtain! Fanta has always been more popular outside the US than here, and now that I know the ingredients are different I'm not surprised. I'd rather have orange juice over orange flavor any day!Lisa Fain (Homesick Texan)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03183180431248706166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-72437947850984140752007-10-17T19:26:00.000+03:002007-10-17T19:26:00.000+03:00Yes, I didn't think Fanta in any way resembled ora...Yes, I didn't think Fanta in any way resembled orange juice when I was growing up - it was like orange flavored soda. How interesting that it was so different for you! I love the combination of oranges and pistachios!Anitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00682831728716470013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-37362387506440555552007-10-17T19:19:00.000+03:002007-10-17T19:19:00.000+03:00Why is it my country has got to make it's mark wit...Why is it my country has got to make it's mark with "food" that can hardly be called food and drinks made almost entirely from processed corn?!!!Angelinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05216322840161752535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-82705908222225052322007-10-17T16:04:00.000+03:002007-10-17T16:04:00.000+03:00There's considerable irony that what followed 'Mr'...There's considerable irony that what followed 'Mr' Reagan was Coke ... <BR/><BR/>Growing up, our next-door neighbor girl poured not milk but Fanta (or another 'orange' soda) over her morning fruit loops (which makes a certain sense, chemical-flavored liquid over chemical-flavored breakfast cereal).Alanna Kellogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12869948243694610558noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-1643650905934258482007-10-17T15:13:00.000+03:002007-10-17T15:13:00.000+03:00I was thinking like lydia, orange?So you got orang...I was thinking like lydia, orange?<BR/>So you got orange and the US got chemicals and sugars! I wonder how kids survive here! What an eye opener.MyKitchenInHalfCupshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07321041059604871286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-64924496544545307682007-10-17T15:02:00.000+03:002007-10-17T15:02:00.000+03:00So nice recipe. Nami I grew up with Coca Cola and ...So nice recipe. Nami I grew up with Coca Cola and Fanta, when you went to a house (many years ago) asking you Fanta or Coca Cola??? I laughing remember, Today I drink wine or water depends! I like your recipe.xxxxxGloriaGloria Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03055543111865966546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-41525681751203176322007-10-17T13:25:00.000+03:002007-10-17T13:25:00.000+03:00Until I read your note at the end about US Fanta, ...Until I read your note at the end about US Fanta, I was thinking, "No, she cannot seriously have a good food association with Fanta soda!" Here it is a horrible, vapid, completely artificial product. Good orange sherbet is something I do associate with childhood, though, and to this day I prefer orange sherbet to all other flavors.Lydia (The Perfect Pantry)https://www.blogger.com/profile/18005372315838352874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13695947.post-52867184425470853922007-10-17T13:09:00.000+03:002007-10-17T13:09:00.000+03:00reminds me of the orange bars we used to eat with ...reminds me of the orange bars we used to eat with vanilla ice cream in the centers. your orange sherbert sounds way healthier.K and Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375282198168168331noreply@blogger.com