Smores?

[aubriee]

Maybe it's a southern thing, but I've never had a smores in my life. I've seen them mentioned on here quite a bit though. I've seen the pictures and they have just never appealed me (graham cracker with a marshmallow on top, drizzled with chocolate ). Anyway, we are dining at 50's Prime Time in Sept and I am considering ordering this, but have a question. How do you eat those things? They look so messy! Doesn't the marshmallow get stringy on the fork? I guess I'm asking: How do you get the thing from the plate into your mouth, without making a mess?

 

[ChelleinNC]

You obviously were never a Scout or went camping as a a child Smore's aren't a Southern thing, I had them growing up in Michigan

Smores are so good that's how they got their name, you'll want "some more" There is no neat way to eat a smore, they are messy and sticky and you just go wash up afterward

 

[pilferk]

You dive in, use your hands, and get messy.



2 Graham crackers with 1/2 a chocolate bar (preferably Hershey's!) and a marshmallow stuck between em. You either roast the marshmallow, and let it melt the chocolate, or wrap the whole thing in foil and heat it over a fire (or grill, if you have to).

YUMMMY!!!

 

[kaybird]

I concur! The are much better over a campfire~take in a movie at FW, and roast your own!

 

[emmabemmainc]

I think the OP meant that maybe it was a southern thing that she hasn't had s'mores--not that s'mores were, themselves, a southern thing.
I also grew up and still am in Michigan--and we eat them all the time! Even though, they are best when you can cook the marshmallows over a fire, we just make them in a microwave--put a cracker down--with the chocolate on top--put 2 marshmallows on top--cook it for about 20 seconds--put the other cracker on--and YUM!! LOL!

I had the s'mores at 50's when I went last year--and I do think I ate them w/ a fork. I'm sure I used my hands though too--it's messy, but so good, that you just don't care!

HAVE FUN!!

 

[2BusyPlanning]

I use a fork and smash it on there. The fork gets messy, I don't. And I don't have to wash the fork!

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Smores must be an aquired taste. Maybe, you need to start eating them when you're young to enjoy them when you're older. Personally, I think they're nasty, & definitely not my idea of a good dessert to order out. You should try it for yourself, if you think you'll like it though. You never know, until you try. If you don't like it, the candy shop & Starring Rolls Cafe aren't far away.

 

[disnut8]

Actually, the true "Smores" are supposed to be eaten only with your hands. Perfect "around the fire" dessert. No true camper goes without graham crackers, Hershey bars, and marshmallows.

Think of them like you would a full rack of ribs. You are supposed to get messy. Ask for extra napkins and go to the bathroom after to wash up.

 

[Narnia]

Try them at home in the oven. I use white chocholate too and add raspbarries mmmmm.

 

[dis-happy]

One winter during an ice storm and the kids were bored to tears we made s'mores in the microwave. Not bad!!!

 

[MomtoAlexnWilliam]

I'm a born and bred southern girl and love my s'mores!!

Yes, they are messy but my aren't they good!! We even make them in the microwave at home. Just put a graham cracker with hershey's chocolate bar and a marshmellow in for about 15 seconds. YUMM!

 

[bdcp]

I'm from Texas and that's where I had them first as a child in Brownies. As a Girl Scout (in MD) we had them on every trip. It's not a regional thing, it's a camping thing. I still love them. I microwave them sometimes too since I don't camp anymore. My idea of roughing it is a hotel/motel without room service (family joke) Marshmallows in a microwave puff up quickly, so be careful.

 

[DisneyCampers]

very messy. DD and DH love them. Me well I don't like chocolate so of course I don't like smores. very much a camping thing. you should try the campfire at FW. Just take your own smore kit.

 

[Maxwellhouse]

Can someone please let me know which restuarants serve smores? We are from England but my daughter loves smores (we ate them in Canada for the first time a few years ago) and would love to eat them at disney.

 

[mskayjay]

Aubriee it really is a camping type dessert made popular in the days of scouting and such. I have many friends down south who look at me like I'm nuts when I mention them so heres the best way to have a real honest to goodness the way they are supposed to be made s'mores. Next time you are having one of your famous southern barbeques with an open fire make the real version of them. Get a package of graham crackers and break them till you get a "square" (been a while but I think that is four sections) and then make another matching square. Now break off a piece of a hershey plain milk chocolate bar about the same size and put it on top of one of the crackers. Spear a marshmallows and brown it over the fire (some folks like to let them catch on fire and blacken a bit...not me!) so it is warm all the way through. Now here's the tricky part...works better with two people....put one piece of the graham cracker on top and one on the bottom of the marshmallow and slide it off your stick. The heat from the marshmallow makes the chocolate melt so don't wait to long to eat it but do give it a moment or two to get soft. Now there is an art to how you sit or stand to eat these. You either hold a napkin under it and try to be lady like or you do the preferred method which is "assume the position"....stand, bend at the waist so any droppage won't hit you, bite in and go for it! lol What you see in the restaurants is a "gentrified" version. Kind of like folks who mess with a good old burger and make it something that doesn't even look like a burger anymore.

You MUST love sweets to eat s'mores. They are a sugar overload for sure! For those who really love them a little tip I found years ago was to bring a tub of really good milk chocolate frosting with us camping instead of the chocolate bars. Frost half the crackers and do your smoosh with your mallow and oh yum!

 

[aubriee]

The ones I saw people ordering last year at 50's Prime Time, just looked like a graham cracker on a plate with marshmallows on top, then they were drizzled with a little chocolate sauce. They didn't seem to have a second cracker on top and I didn't see anything that looked like a chocolate bar in them. Are the ones served at Prime Time any good?

 

[theresak]

Mmmmm. There's nothing like a good ole' s'more! Graham cracker square, chocolate square, roasted toasty marshmallow - squish it down with another graham cracker, - the heat from the marshmallow melts the chocolate, messy tasty goodness!!

Anything else is faux s'more. I don't like microwaved ones, because the graham cracker gets soft.