He yelled something raucous and ribald. 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 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.
{Dancer of Gor, page 81}
"Candies! Candies!" called a hawker of sweets near me in the crowd.
"Candies of Ar!"
{Beasts of Gor, page 54}
~ Custard ~
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 vulo, pasteries with creams and custards.
{Beasts of Gor, page 20}
~ 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 liquor 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.
{Explorers of Gor, page 10}
~ Pasteries, Tarts & Cakes ~
On the tray were assorted pasteries,
on the other was a variety of small, spiced custards.
{Guardsman of Gor, page 239}
"I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pasteries and tarts and cakes -
things they will not trust their female slaves to buy."
{Nomads of Gor, page 238}
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