FOOD!

One fun thing that I did with my guide this week (her name was Fatima and she´ll hopefully be coming to the US for about 8 months next year, so I´m trying to get her to stop by philly) is try Mexican sweets.  For two days, I spent half of my guide time wandering around on this street that has about 40 candy stores and bought a bunch of things.  Below is a sampling of the stuff that I had:

Pulvoron, San Carlos brand.  This is a special cookie that is usually eaten at xmas.  While it was tasty, polvo litterally means "dust", and they weren´t kidding.  It literally turned into dust when I ate it.

This was called "mango enchilada" which more or less means dried mango coated in chile.  It was quite tasty and not spicy at all.

Dried Garbanzo bean with Chile and lime.  It was a really tasty snack!

Chocolate Covered Cookie.  It tasted exactly like it sounds, which is really good.

Candied Lemon Rind.  Surprisingly, this wasn´t really bitter at all, more sweet and a bit sour but not much else.  I didn´t mind eating it, but it certainly wasn´t my favorite.

Crystalized Squash.  It sounds strange and it was.  The taste was actually pretty good, although not awesome.  The texture, however, wasn´t super.  It was nice and tough on the outside, but the inside was too mushy for my taste.

And finally.

I ate a grasshopper.  I knew that they were around, but had yet to see them.  Fatima had told me they were good, but they aren´t just sitting in the candy stores with all of the other stuff (maybe because it isn´t sweet...).  But I was in a park today and there was a woman selling all sorts of nuts, etc...  I noticed that she had a huge bag of grasshoppers.  She offered me one to try.  So I took it and popped it in and... it was actually pretty good.  Salty and fried and very dead.  It was certainly a bit weird and I´m not sure i want to eat any more of them, but what the hell, I´m in Mexico.