I’m
not really sure what time period should be at the end of that sentence, my
posts being so sporadic, but these particular sweet treats immediately inspired
me. A couple of friends of Celia’s recently visited from Shanghai, who she met
while volunteering there. In the best traditions of this at times
pathologically generous culture they brought a few enormous boxes of snacks as
gifts. Included in this confectionary aid package were some sweets. No ordinary
sweets, however. These were cheese sweets. One packet contained harder sweets
and one very soft sweets, both tasted of cheese, the former faintly and latter
quite obviously so. Being ardent cheese fans we both liked them, but I’ve no
doubt that they could for most people be an acquired taste. They apparently
hark from inner Mongolia, so I’m not exactly sure what the provenance of the
dairy involved is, but perhaps horse, cow or sheep. Inner Mongolia is famous
for mutton hotpot, so the sheep option seems likely, although the sweets on the
right say “cow’s milk” and have a picture of an improbably ecstatic cow, which
could be a clue of some sort. Please have a look at the picture below.
Cheese candy and some tasty jerky. Beef, allegedly.
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