Candies Mint Sticks and Tastas

Mint Sticks "She withdrew, head down. She picked up the small tray from the stand near the table. On it was a small vessel containing a thick, sweet liqueur from the distant Turia, the Ar of the South, and the two tiny glasses from which we had sipped it. On the tray too, was the metal vessel which contained black wine, steaming and bitter from far Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, the small yellow-enameled cups from which we had drunk the black wine, its spoons and sugars, a tiny bowl of mint sticks, and the softened, dampened cloths on which we had wiped our fingers." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 10 ~才 Tastas "He yelled something raucous and rubald. It had to do with 'tastas' or 'stick candies.' These are not candies, incidentally, like sticks, as for example, licorice or peppermint sticks, but soft, rounded, succulent candies, usually covered with a coating of syrup or fudge, rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but much smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted on sticks. the candy is prepared and the the stick, from the bottom, is thrust up, deeply, into it. It is then ready to be eaten." ... "These candies are usually sold at such places as parks, beaches, and promenades, at carnivals, expositions and fairs, and at various types of popular events, such as plays, song dramas, races, games, and kaissa matches. They are popular even with children." ... "The expression was sometimes used by men for women such as we." Book 22, Dancer of Gor, page 81

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Flavored Ices

"The High Initiate had risen to his feet and accepted a goblet from another Initiate, probably containing minced flavored ices, for the day was warm. ...... Free women, here and there, were delicately putting tidbits beneath their veils. Some even lifted their veils somewhat to drink of the flavored ices. Some low-caste free women drank through their veils, and there were yellow and purple stains on the rep-cloth." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 141 ~才

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Pastries

" 'I shop for wealthy women,' said she, 'for pastries and tarts and cakes...things they will not trust their female slaves to buy.' " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 238 ~才 "He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20 ~才 "... When she had had a good session Ulafi would sometimes, when he thought of it, throw her a bit of cake or pastry, which she would gratefully receive. She would then kneel before Ulafi and kiss his feet, clutching the bit of cake or pastry. 'Thank you, Master,' she would say. She would then kneel before Sasi, her teacher, and offer her the bit of cake or pastry, which Sasi would take, taking most of it and returning a portion of it to her. 'Thank you, Mistress,' she would say, for Sasi was first girl. She would then creep to her cage, and be locked within it. She would lie curled up in it, a lovely, helpless slave, and try to make the bit of cake or pastry last as long as possible." Book 13, Explorers of Gor, page 77 ~才 "On the tray were assorted pastries, on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 239 ~才 "We then, from the tray, feeding ourselves, taking dates, and slices of larma and pastries, breakfasted and chatted." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 295 ~才 " 'I lived in Ar for a year,' she said. 'Not far from my apartments there was a pastry shop. Marvelous smells used to come from the shop. In the evening, when the shop was closing slave girls, in their brief tunics and collars, would come and kneel down, near the hinged opening to the open air counter. The baker, who was a kind hearted man, would sometimes come out and, from a flat sheet, throw them unsold pastries.' " Book 18, Blood Brothers of Gor, page 333

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Tarts

"I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes...things they will not trust their female slaves to buy." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 238 ~才

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Chocolate

" 'This is warmed chocolate,' I said, pleased. It was very rich and creamy. 'Yes, Mistress,' said the girl. 'It is very good,' I said. 'Thank you, Mistress,' she said. 'Is it from Earth?' I asked. 'Not directly,' she said. 'Many things here, of course, ulitmately have an Earth origin. It is not improbable that the beans from which the first cacao trees on this world were grown were brought from Earth.' 'Do the trees grow near here?' I asked. 'No Mistress,' she said, 'we obtain the beans from which the chocolate is made, from Cosian merchants, who in turn, obtain them in the tropics.' " Book 19, Kajira of Gor, page 61

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Honey

- Tarl Cabot orders breakfast - " 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit." Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107 ~才 "I saw small fruit trees, and hives, where honey bees were raised; and there were small sheds, here and there, with sloping roofs of boards; in some such sheds might craftsmen work, in others fish might be dried or butter made." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 81 "... vulo stew with raisins, nuts, onions and honey;..." Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 48 ~才

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Sugar Yellow and White Sugars have specificly been named in the Books.

"Before them had been placed large golden dishes heaped with delicacies prepared by the kitchens of the Ubar, tall precious goblets filled with Turain wines, the small bowls of spices and sugars with their stirring spoons at hand. " Book 4, Nomands of Gor, page 253 ~才 "There was a brass ladle that Aphris and Elizabeth had used in cooking and a tin box of yellow Turian sugar, dented in now and its contents scattered... " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 267 ~才 - in a kitchen - "...numerous cannisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments...." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271 - 272 ~才 "With a tiny spoon, its tip no more than a tenth of a hort in diameter, she placed four measures of white sugar, and six of yellow, in the cup; with two stirring spoons, one for the white sugar, another for the yellow, she stirred the beverage after each measure." Book 10, Tribesman of Gor, page 89 ~才 "He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20 ~才 "...trade item in the north. ... The southern sugars are also popular. I had originally supposed this was because of their sweetness, there being few sweet items, save some berries, in the north. I know began to suspect that the calories of the sugars also played their role in their popularity." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 206 ~才 "Lola now returned to the small table and, kneeling head down, served us our desert, slices of topsit, sprinkled with four Gorean sugars." Book 15, Rogue of Gor, page 132

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