Brilliant Delicious Chocolate
When I was in pre-school, one of my favorite foods in the world was Hagelslag.
That’s the Dutch brand name for chocolate sprinkles (jimmies), which good friends of our family, having grown up in Holland, ate on soft buttered bread for breakfast & snacks. I loved eating it at their house. So when I discovered rows of Hagelslag in grocery stores here, in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia, I bought a five-month supply.
It comes in big sacks. In little packets. In cardboard boxes. Dark & milk. In cylindrical tins with the winning epithet: “Brilliant Delicious Chocolate”. One grocery had devoted an entire shelf to various forms of Hagelslag.
Today I learned the Bahasa Indonesia word for chocolate jimmies is kotoran tikus: MOUSE POOP. Which is exactly what it looks like.
Strangely, that makes me like them even more.
That’s the Dutch brand name for chocolate sprinkles (jimmies), which good friends of our family, having grown up in Holland, ate on soft buttered bread for breakfast & snacks. I loved eating it at their house. So when I discovered rows of Hagelslag in grocery stores here, in the former Dutch colony of Indonesia, I bought a five-month supply.
It comes in big sacks. In little packets. In cardboard boxes. Dark & milk. In cylindrical tins with the winning epithet: “Brilliant Delicious Chocolate”. One grocery had devoted an entire shelf to various forms of Hagelslag.
Today I learned the Bahasa Indonesia word for chocolate jimmies is kotoran tikus: MOUSE POOP. Which is exactly what it looks like.
Strangely, that makes me like them even more.
posted by Anne E. Campisi at 1:32 AM
1 Comments:
there is a frozen soy dessert which i like that has the brand name of 'purely decadent'. the one that i like is vanilla with caramel/fudge swirls and chocolate covered peanuts. this particular concoction is entitled 'turtle tracks'. perhaps it is just the 12 year old boy in my head that finds this amusing but i'd like to think that what my mother calls 'toilet humor' transcends cultural boundaries.
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