Frobscottle and Snozzcumbers

What a fun day to be a fourth grader! We've been reading the book, The BFG, by Roald Dahl in one of my small reading groups, so today, I surprised them by letting them eat and drink things from the book! Of course, I let EVERYONE in class participate, not just Yellow Group members. It was so much fun! I had the Yellow Group members explain what frobscottle and snozzcumbers were and how they looked and tasted to the rest of the class while I cut up the cucumbers...I mean SNOZZcumbers and got the ingredients for our frobscottle ready. I told them, however, that whizzpoppers weren't allowed! ;)

Here's what you'll need:

Frobscottle:

• Two 2-liters of A&W Cream Soda Made with Real Vanilla (You can buy the cheaper ones, but the ones I found didn't say anything about vanilla I wanted them to see that it was cream- and vanilla-flavored)
• One 1/2 gallon of Red Raspberry Sherbet
• Green food coloring

Here's what you'll do:

1. Add a few drops of food coloring to the 2-liter (I added about 20 to make sure it was super GREEN)
2. Pour about a half a cup of the green cream soda into the cup
3. Add a small scoop of raspberry sherbet
4. Enjoy

If you don't want to use the sherbet (since it adds a texture to the soda that frobscottle doesn't have), you could add a few drops of raspberry extract instead.

It's SUPER easy and surprisingly tasty! They loved that we made the frobscottle using the colors and flavors that the Big Friendly Giant described (green soda with flavors of cream, vanilla, and raspberry). The kids even ate the all the cucumbers without ranch dressing because they thought plain old cucumbers would taste closer to what snozzcumbers might taste like. They had so much fun tasting what the BFG east and drinks!