Strange And Tasty
Kids can be bribed. Offer them some chocolate or candies and they become quiet or go away or stop torturing the cat/siblings/piano, depending on what you want them to do or let be. At least this works with most kids. It never worked with me. It became a family joke: “Offer her a bar of chocolate or a sandwich and bet on what she will choose.” It was never the chocolate.
Fast forward. I learned to appreciate a piece of chocolate now and then – dark, rich, bitter. Or mole negro, this Oaxacan delicacy which takes two days to prepare if done properly and where some real chocolate is involved, not this sickly sweet stuff. I also became very adventurous when it comes to food. Some of the things I ate might frighten the poor reader; not every time the experience was quite what I had had in mind, but then – life is an adventure.
And then I came across this:
My first reaction was – eek, chocolate. My second – it does sound strange enough to give it a try. And try it I did. Résumé: In an odd way this chocolate is very lovely. Yes, there is a quite distinct bacon flavor (good). It is also salty (good). There is the barest hint of a dark chocolate taste, blending in with the bacon and the salt, but more like an afterthought. So that can be filed under good too.
It is definitely not a chocolate for the chocoholic. It is something one has one square of now and then. But that’s okay with me, because I really do not go for chocolate in a big way. To bribe me one has to give me “real” food. Then, I will stop torturing the piano.
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October 23rd, 2007 at 11:49 am
I can’t resist semi-sweet or dark chocolate. I send Miko an assortment of choccies usually twice a year, because, apparently, it’s hard to get good chocolate in Japan. I used to get a chocolate craving right before my period. Haven’t had one of those in 14 years. Period, that is. Still get the chocco craving every so often.
October 23rd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
So you send choccie packages instead of care packages – right.
No wonder that Miko loves you. After all, as we all know, she would sell her soul for a gourmet dinner. 🙂
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
She has to hide the choccies from Sonbeam (and probably Ben, too). Once, Sonbeam waltzed through, sniffed and asked, “Have you been eating chocolate?”
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Yes, I remember that funny story. Miko and her Terrible Two – never a dull moment.