I've mentioned merenda before. It's usually the break between classes or after school that people have for snacking. On Sunday afternoon my host family had a merenda; their friends, a married couple, joined us.
Originally, for our tea time/snack, there was carrot cake, a fail!cheesecake that I had made, chocolate fondue with fruit and some sort of delicious mascarpone dessert. As the next four hours flew by, more food was brought out: all of the cheese in the house, tea (I know, not a food, but whatever), focaccia, salami, wine (another not-food, I know, shut up), more fruit, bread, Nutella, peanut butter, and crackers.
These were some of the things we discussed:
-famous Italians
-the difference between hurricanes and tornadoes
-idioms ("Break a leg!" vs. "Crepi il lupo!" ["May the wolf die!"])
-American meals
-hash browns
-peanut butter (again)
-the Mediterranean diet
-the students I would have to take out of class before teaching (i.e., the couple's children)
-the deterioration of the body with age
-what happens after thirty years of marriage
It was fun.
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