Belgium is famous for its lace and its chocolate. We bought some of both. We didn't buy a lot of chocolate and we were glad. We have decided we really don't like Belgian chocolate that much. What on earth is wrong with us? It is expensive and really not that great. We bought chocolate later in England and both of us much preferred that. I'm sure our opinion was colored by Ken's experience:
Ken 's favorite chocolates are cherry cordials or chocolate-covered cherries. Not seeing any in the display case, he asked the clerk if they had any. She said they did and turned behind her on the counter to retrieve one for him. Ken bought one. While waiting for Don and Ada, he went out of the shop and sat on a window ledge to eat it. He took a bite and hit a cherry pit! We are so grateful he didn't break a tooth! Then he found a cherry stem buried inside the chocolate. They had not taken out the pit and had left the stem on the cherry. And it tasted terrible. It was full of alcohol. I walked out of the shop just in time to see him spitting the stem out on the street. Yuck! I'm sure it is just a cultural difference- that's just how they make them in Belgium. But it certainly was not to Ken's taste.
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| They looked good, but they tasted terrible! |
We did enjoy the plain Belgian milk chocolate candy bars. They were good. But the rest of the Belgian chocolate, we can live without.
2 comments:
I agree about the Belgium chocolate - its texture is like truffles, which I don't like, BUT what's amazing from Bruegge and dream-worthy is the vanilla nougat filled with nuts! It's soft and chewy and delicious!
So interesting that you really just don't like it! And such a SAD story that the cherry cordial was so unpleasant to dad who was expecting his favorite treat. I want to see the lace!
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