It's common knowledge that Nutella is kind of a European thing. They put it on toast and crackers and crepes and the like. I put it on pieces of bread when the sweet tooth rolls around later in the evening. It's a interesting thing, Nutella. They say it is a "hazelnut spread" as if that means it's healthy for you. In reality it's just a weak, processed chocolate spread. Upon close inspection of the nutrition facts, it reads that only 0.5% is actually hazelnut. That's not even worth mentioning. I don't think they would even mention it if they weren't marketing the product as "hazelnut spread." Instead, they would say something like, "contains an insignificant amount of hazelnut" like they do when it's something bad for you like sodium or trans fat.
Why am I writing about this? Not sure.
For Family Home Evening (between7-10 singles from the area meet at the senior missionaries home each week - it's fun), they wanted me to talk about my mission briefly. The jungles of Central America are even more foreign to Latvians than to Americans so they just kept asking questions. I spoke of the Nica culture and lifestyle, the diarrhea and upchucking in the front yard, the bugs and animals, eating cow tongue and brain, eating iguana, getting on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in the form of public transport everyday, eating nothing but rice, beans, tortillas, and boiled bananas practically everyday, getting bit by dogs, getting bit by millions of the tiniest ants and mosquitoes one could imagine, seeing the biggest ants you can imagine, you know, Tropical 101. Naturally, I was enthralled at having such an enthused audience. That right there was a truly symbiotic relationship.
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