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Candy Review
There's an Eastern Europe grocery right next to a place where I have started to go for an errand. Every time I pass it I think to myself, I should check it out, but I am usually in a rush. This weekend I had some time and the curiosity had finally gotten the better of me, so I decided to poke my head in. Going in I'm instantly reminded of the tiny little Chinese groceries we used to go to growing up, where absolutely everything was an import, there wasn't a word of English anywhere, and the guy behind the counter didn't say a word of English too. Except in this case 99% of everything was in Cyrillic. The lady behind the counter kept saying things to me in Russian (maybe Ukrainian, I can't make the distinction =x) and then swapped to English when my answer was not satisfying. She did not smile a single time. I enjoyed the whole encounter.
There was an entire shelf for pickled mushrooms. There were like 10 different types of sour creams. I got two so I could compare the styles. There were snacks and a lot of preserved fish, and Kyiv style cured meats. I don't know what makes them Kyiv style, but I do know they were like half the price of the soppressata at the Italian grocers so I had to give it a shot and it was tasty! There was also a big wall of individual tiny candies. They weren't exactly cheap at $8 a pound, but I figured I might as well go a head and try them out.
I wrote up a little review of each of them, and used that as an excuse to practice My Cyrillic typing skills... but I don't think I'll every get used to the Cyrillic layout. I can't turn an f into an a or a o into a j in my mind easily. So if I ever get to the point where I am writing in Russian beyond the bare elementary level I will probably have to stick to the less efficient but less brain busting QWERTY with modifications. Also please forgive incorrect transliteration, I really am a Cyrillic noob.
Anyway here's some random Eastern European candy reviews.
There was an entire shelf for pickled mushrooms. There were like 10 different types of sour creams. I got two so I could compare the styles. There were snacks and a lot of preserved fish, and Kyiv style cured meats. I don't know what makes them Kyiv style, but I do know they were like half the price of the soppressata at the Italian grocers so I had to give it a shot and it was tasty! There was also a big wall of individual tiny candies. They weren't exactly cheap at $8 a pound, but I figured I might as well go a head and try them out.
I wrote up a little review of each of them, and used that as an excuse to practice My Cyrillic typing skills... but I don't think I'll every get used to the Cyrillic layout. I can't turn an f into an a or a o into a j in my mind easily. So if I ever get to the point where I am writing in Russian beyond the bare elementary level I will probably have to stick to the less efficient but less brain busting QWERTY with modifications. Also please forgive incorrect transliteration, I really am a Cyrillic noob.
Anyway here's some random Eastern European candy reviews.
Broadly speaking, these guys sure like their wafers in chocolate. That seemed to be the unifying theme for a lot of them. I also like wafers in chocolate so I approve.
- трепет (Trepet) - My favorite so far. There's a little bit of caramel or something in there so it's nice and chewey, but not so much caramel that I'm thinking about my dentist bill
- Who Said Muuu? Baked milk - This one is Ukrainian I think? It's kind of shaped like toblerones and has a light cream in it that tastes a little like hazelnut, but I don't think I like "baked milk." It tastes too much like white chocolate, and I don't like white chocolate.
- Złota Wiśnia - A cherry liqueur encased in a chocolate shell. I was surprised just how alcoholic this was. This was also one of the only candies that didn't involve wafers of some kind.
- цукерки Ананаснi (Tsukerki Ananasni) - Also probably Ukrainian given the "i?" The name seems to literally be "Pineapple candy" and there is a pineapple on the cover of this but it didn't taste too much like pineaple. It tastes like a wafer covered in chocolate, lol. I guess there was some sort of fruitish flavor to the frosting between the wafers that was supposed to be pineapple.
- Грильяж с арахисе (Grilyazh s arakhise) - Also no wafer. This one was sort of a crunchy nut candy. I don't like the crunchier, brittle types of candies. They're the ones that make me worry for my teeth. So this one was not one of my favorites. The taste was nice and peanuty though.
- Коровка (Korovka) - A classic wafer in chocolate with no embellishment. It was tasty, classic, and simple. It seems like Korovka is maybe a brand rather than a specific type of treat? I'm not sure.