I've explained Italian breakfast already. But today was different. Breakfast is usually a basket full of cakes, pastries, and other sweet things. Today I spotted something covered in chocolate and made by Ferrero (which, if you don't know, is the company that makes Kinder chocolate which is the most glorious thing in existence; yes, I am in fact seven years old secretly).
So, I picked up this chocolate-covered thing, opened it, and took a bite. The taste did not fit what I thought it should be, which is why I stopped and stared. Here was some chocolatey delicious cake thing and I was tasting...alcohol.
Lovely thought to have at seven in the morning.
The wrapper had oranges on it, so at first I figured it was that, but strangely done or something. But then I looked at the list of ingredients and there it was: liquor. What. A breakfast thing and I was eating something like a rum ball.
Okay.
Second food adventure the day:
My host mom doesn't speak English, so sometimes I don't completely understand what's going on when I'm with her. Yay for language barriers. She kept talking about how she was going to make "black rice" for lunch today. I was thinking about that black forbidden rice I sometimes see in Kroger.
Imagine my surprise when "black rice" was risotto with cuttlefish ink added into it. I've never seen cuttlefish ink, much less a dish with it as the main taste.
It was pretty good. Apparently, the ink is added to many dishes (probably all Venetian recipes) to give it the tasty cuttlefish flavor.
Yummy.
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