Hi Tom.
Well, I'm not sure if the exact game was ever markited over here under that
name, though I do remember playing ones with similar rules as a child.
For example, me being an avid Thomas the tank engine enthusiast, my mum
bought, and indeed brailled a game called thomas the Tank engine all
changed, which worked exactly the same way with drawing cards and advancing
several spaces or going backwards, but with stations on the board instead of
locations like the candy forest etc, and the game's objective was to reach
the engine shed in the middle of the board.
The unique rule however that I think was specific to that game was
occasionally you'd pick up a card saying "all change" and get to pick a
player to swap positions with on the board.
As regards the hole candy thing, well it depends upon the type really. I
have no idea for instance what sour patches are, ---- unless they're what in
England are called wine gums or jellies. Gingerbread is very common over
here though and nearly all bakers sell it, but usually in the form of ginger
bread men or just gingerbread biscuits, sinse over here "biscuits" refers
mostly to anything like shortbread, gingerbread, rich tea, digestives etc,
and the term "cookies" is only used of very soft, often large sized chewie
affairs that I believe are supposedly a more American style of recipe, or at
least thought to be.
I think if candy land were! produced over here it would probably go under
the name sweety land, sinse overe here "sweets" serves as something of a
catch all term the way candy does in the states, with "sweeties" as a more
childish version.
Btw, sinse the question of English language and to an extent cultural
differences from the states has come up before, I recently heard about this
extremely good artical intended to help Americans who might want to write
accurately about Britain (especially as regards harry potter).
http://members.madasafish.com/~cj_whitehound/Fanfic/Britpicks.htm
While I think it is perhaps in some places a little more specific to
scotland, ---- for instance it mentions beef being expensive and thus less
commonly eaten in Britain (yet I eat roast beef extremely often), and the
term "carry out" being often used where as myself I've never heard of that
expression and "takeaway" is the usual, it's still a very good artical and
should provide an interesting read on precisely issues such as candy vs
sweets etc which have come up on list before.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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