Harry Potter and the Mint Humbug

Posted By author@hcpaul ~ 25th February 2012

The young wizard isn’t a vegetarian and school meals at Hogwarts are in a class of their own ….

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

“Harry’s mouth fell open. The dishes in front of him were now piled with food. He had never seen so many things he liked to eat on one table: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops and lamb chops, sausages, bacon and steak, boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, chips, Yorkshire puddings, peas, carrots, gravy, ketchup and, for some strange reason, mint humbugs.

When everybody had eaten as much as they could, the remains of the food faded from the plates, leaving them sparkling clean as before. A moment later the puddings appeared. Blocks of ice cream in every flavour you could think of, applie pies, treacle tarts, chocolate eclairs and jam doughnuts, trifle, strawberries, jelly, rice pudding …”