Tag 116 - Sweet

I hardly eat sweets here and I don't miss them at all. But since they started selling Nicaraguan organic chocolate in this little store owned by a Spanish woman, I always have some at home. It's 70% cocoa, dark brown and slightly flexible at temperatures above 20 degrees. Even at higher temperatures, it doesn't melt or become soft. So it doesn't have the meltiness of Milka chocolate and the likes, and it tastes slightly sweet, but not bitter. I allow myself a maximum of three small pieces per day, but I savor them. It becomes very hard at colder temperatures. That's why I won't bring any with me to Germany, I want to remember it as it was in its natural environment.

You can buy homemade sweets on the street and at the market. They are mostly made of sugar with various additional ingredients, such as milk. They are usually offered in small cubes. And in the supermarket, you can find similar products as in our country, sickeningly sweet-looking and some of the ones we know, but accordingly expensive. You can also get Nutella, a small jar costs almost 10 euros. What you can't get here is licorice. They don't even know what that is.

Today, I was craving chocolate but I ran out of my supply. The Spanish store was closed for some inexplicable reason, I hope not because of delivery issues. The mini supermarket around the corner has a knockoff of M&M's, so that will have to do as a substitute. I accidentally grabbed the disgusting fruit sugar gummy variant and now I've made myself drool and have to go to bed hungry.