Always interesting to see what raises debate on a blog (apart from my inability to type proper English or accurately to proof read that which I have typed). Is 'tablet,' or is it not, 'approximately the same as fudge'? I think the answer lies in your the definition of approximately. A whole five minutes of online research of recipes reveals the following...
Ingredients for Tablet:
Milk
Condensed milk
Sugar
Butter
Ingredients for Fudge:
Milk
Condensed milk (usually)
Sugar (may be demerara)
Butter
In most recipes the quantities are identical, though for some forms of fudge the sugar content is half that of tablet (which is why the latter is that obviously preferred by dentists). The only substantive difference seems to be that whilst fudge is cooked for 20 minutes, tablet is cooked for 45; clearly Scots are more patient.
Anyway, it's time this debate was laid to rest. We don't want to have a further split in the church over confectionery heresies!
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No, no, no, chalk and cheese.
(I like to think i can see both sides to an argument!)
LOL. Now I am worried, you've tried eating chalk?!
Clearly this is touching Celtic sensibilities more than I am capable of understanding. Which of course is why I eat chocolate...
Of course, I am left wondering if I ought to point out it was a Scot who originally told me that tablet was like fudge...
Fudge or Tablet is not bad for your teeth if eaten in this way............
1. Eat meals backwards. Start with after dinner fudge and strong coffee, then pudding eg. acidic apple pie with sweet ice cream, then main course which scrapes all sugar and acid off teeth and finish with a pH 7 bowl of soup, which could be washed down with a glass of water.
2. So only eat sweets before meals never after them.
3. Its not the number of sweets that rot your teeth but the number of times a week that you eat sweets. Therefore finish the whole lot in one sitting.