What's your favorite snack?
Whether it's something healthy like carrots or something sugary like cookies, what is your favorite snack?
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Whether it's something healthy like carrots or something sugary like cookies, what is your favorite snack?
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It's a traditional Bulgarian semi-spicy, cured meat that's seasoned, stuffed into a stomach, or intestine and left to dry and age out in the open air. It's only produced in the Bulgarian mountains because of the weather and clean air.
To some of you this might sound awful, but it's one of the best things you can eat. Think of it like the Bulgarian version of Chorizo, but richer in taste.
It's so good, I have to custom order it to my city in Germany. Since they don't sell it at any of the Bulgarian stores here, because it's an expensive product. I buy one per week and they cost around 15 Euro. They range between 450-550 grams.
ahh I love it too! We always used to take it on picnics in summer with bread and lukanka. I miss getting sunburned on Vitosha with my family :(
Not really, cause haggis is cooked and has bits of liver, heart, other organs and onions.
Our thing, called "Strandzhenski Diado", or Strandzha grandpa (Strandzha being a mountainous region in Bulgaria) only contains pure chopped meat that's been seasoned, cured and aged. The reason it's expensive is that it sits in the open air. So it is dependent on the weather. If it's too warm, the meat goes bad. So proper Strandzhenski Diado is produced on a smaller scale, available in only a few places in Bulgaria.
There are cheap versions that have minced meat (instead of chopped) and an artificial casing, but those don't taste as good. They are produced at a much larger scale in controlled environments and are available in every supermarket, but you can taste the difference in quality immediately.
As for haggis, too much of a livery flavor for my taste. I don't like liver.
Just tucking into a bag of carrots is good for me but if not being healthy, probably cinammon rolls AHH
Mehh, only if you add lemon juice. Or straight up go for Nutella or crème de marrons instead.
I love crêpes too. Where I live you get 'Crêperie' food outlets and you can even buy them as street food in winter. Normally with sugar, lemon and sugar, or nutella. They do savoury ones, too. You can also buy pre-cooked chocolate crêpe rolls in the supermarket that you just need to heat up, and crêpe powder mix that you just need to add milk to (as if just buying eggs and flour were too difficult).
Frozen red berries (you can buy bags of them. I only get them when they're on offer at Lidl.)
Seville blood oranges (like normal oranges, but reddish inside, and they taste a bit raspberry-ish). They are often hard to peel and tend to squirt juice everywhere when you try, but when you finally manage to eat them the flavour explosion is worth the effort. It probably goes without saying that this is a continental treat, not a British treat.
Those easy-peeler tangerines that you can buy in Britain. Like much food in Britain they taste extremely bland, but as the name suggests they're easy to peel, very juicy while not squirting the juice everywhere, and convenient to pack in your bag or in your pocket for when you're on the go.
Porridge with milk, (lots of) cocoa or cacao powder, and honey. For the morning chocolate fix that makes you feel 'full' until lunchtime.
Chorizo and other kinds of cured meat and cured pork sausages.
French cheese. The gooier, meltier, mouldier and smellier, the better. I love experimenting with the obscure ones that are hard to find off the continent. Cancoillotte is the lowest calorie one - a whole 250ml tub has less than 400 calories.
Anything sweet from the nearest bakery (on the European continent). The variety is truly amazing. They have this thing called a 'Jesuit' which is a massive, custard-filled wedge of puff pastry with a solid, almond-encrusted sugar top that cracks when you bite into it. And they often have a thing called a 'Fig', which is a blob of green icing sugar the size of a tangerine, with the same custard inside it (I'm British. I love custard. When I see this thick, custardy stuff in the country I'm currently in, I feel like I'm home. Except that the whole concept of custard wrapped in green icing sugar to make it look like a fig is way too fussy to be of British origin. British pastries are 'peasant food' that tastes good and fills you up.). Or almond croissants, which have a slightly crunchy sugar topping, and are encrusted with almonds and filled with a warm, sweet almond cream and chocolate filling.
Anything sweet from the nearest bakery (in Britain). You find all the rich, stodgy, floury, filling things in Britain. All of the doughnuts and the bready things are heavier, squidgier and don't dry out as easily. I love rocky road, jam-filled doughnuts and mince pies at Christmas. And that squidgy 'school sponge' stuff takes me right back to when I was a kid. I love the savoury offerings too. Cornish pasty, meat and potato pie, cheese and onion pasty, sausage and baked bean pasty... that's half a mini-English breakfast in a hard, crunchy pastry shell, with a little crust to hold onto as you're eating it. Perfect to eat as you're walking down the street. It's a completely different type of pastry than the delicate stuff you get on the continent and have to eat sitting down with a plate and a napkin. In Britain, sugar melts and pastry crunches. On the continent, pastry melts and sugar crunches.
Chocolate, caramel, passion fruit, lychee and cookie dough frozen yoghurt. With all the unhealthiest toppings. And berries. Favourite snack in Britain, where the yoghurt is really creamy and heavy, from those rain-soaked pastures.
Cherry tomatoes, lychees, kumquats, physalis, seedless grapes... small, sweet fruits that preferably don't have stones in them. Lychee stones are tolerable because you can suck the flesh off them, but cherry stones are too much of a pain to spit out unless they're VERY good cherries. You can't really get those easily in Britain though. For some reason, fruit in Britain doesn't taste of much.
Most of your snacks seems pretty healthy. Good on you. You'll live a very long time!
:)
I have yet to try lychee. That one is on my list of things to try.
XD
Lately I've been really into bacon, I also like Dutch chocolate ice cream with hot, melted peanutbutter and honey on top.
Chocolate and peanut butter is a winning combo.
:)
The other day I had this burger from the Cheesecake Factory. I think it was called the Bacon-Bacon Burger or something. When I was eating it I was like: I have actually encountered a burger that has way too much bacon in it. XD
Oh my goodness. I ate cookie dough ice cream mixed eith peanut butter.
No regrets.
Crackers, like doritos chips stuff like that. Latley I've been on a grape kick. I love candy but I'm trying to kick it. I was going great till this like super cute coworker gave me a twizzlers, one of the super fruity individual pack ones and then I impulsed bought several of my favorite candies bulk. I'm weak when it comes to candy.
Salty- kettle chips or rice crackers
Sweet- vanilla ice cream
Rando- seasonal berries
Edit: I went and tried to combine Doritos and chocolate this morning when I bought my breakfast from 7-11. It wasn't good. Lol
Aw and here I thought I was getting a new flavor suggestion. Lol both are pretty tasty. I'm probably going to cover a dorito in chocolate and try it anyway. XD
Yeahhhhh you can get really fancy and posh about it if you learn to pair the right fruit with the right cheese. I don’t take it that serious but it would be interesting lol
Honestly I got into snacking with fruit and cheese because I was jealous of that French rat in Ratatouille