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.
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Get them from an Asian food shop if you can't find them at your local supermarket. They're healthier fresh than canned, but the ones in cans are ready-peeled and de-stoned.
Also, you forget that much of the stuff isn't available in Britain as well as in my current country, so I don't have access to all of it at any one time.
What's your favorite snack?
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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.
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Most of your snacks seems pretty healthy. Good on you. You'll live a very long time!
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I have yet to try lychee. That one is on my list of things to try.
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Get them from an Asian food shop if you can't find them at your local supermarket. They're healthier fresh than canned, but the ones in cans are ready-peeled and de-stoned.
Aside from fruits, everything else isn't healthy, like, at all.
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Also, you forget that much of the stuff isn't available in Britain as well as in my current country, so I don't have access to all of it at any one time.
Well, a little bit of what you fancy...
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My favorite snack doesn't mean I'm eating it often. It's just what I prefere to eat.
"Your favorite snack"
Lists a whole bunch of food