Junk Food Round-Up

Let me introduce you to Manzana Lift. It's apple-flavoured pop, and we are both slightly addicted to it. I'm really hoping I can find this now and again in a Mexican specialty grocer in Nova Scotia (assuming a store like that exists in Nova Scotia). This is the "golden" variety, but the best kind is the original reddish kind.


We have also tried lime-flavoured pop, which tasted like unsweetened lime-flavoured sparkling water. Mark kind of liked it and I kind of didn't.

For some reason, one time Mark bought a bottle of sangria flavoured pop that didn't actually contain alcohol. I'm not sure why. it tasted good, but it's no Manzana Lift.

We have not been so lucky in the candy category.

Today Mark brought some candy called "Pulparindo" back to our campsite. It tasted like blech.


I'm not surprised, as I don't enjoy eating pulp, and I also don't usually eat the rind of any fruit. So a candly called "Pulparindo" doesn't inspire confidence, right off the bat. It lured me in by looking a bit like caramel, but the pulpy texture and the sour yet spicy taste just didn't work. I'll stick with the sweet loaves of bread from the bakeries, thank you. Mark ate the Pulparindo but claimed not to like it that much either.


Lastly, although it's not junk food, I MUST comment about Mexican hot chocolate. If you ever have the opportunity to try it, do. It's amazing, and apparently differs from region to region. It's chocolate-y goodness, but it has spices and chilis and stuff added. Not to the point where it's hot in the spicy sense, but it's so rich and flavourful that you'll have the urge to have a quiet moment alone with it. And when your spouse of two weeks (who foolishly ordered coffee) asks for a taste, you'll want to tell him to get his own, but you'll share because that's the grown-up thing to do. But secretly you'll still want to tell him to get his own.