Chocolate-Covered Delights
Posted by Arwen Mosher in Food on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 8:50 PM
I’ve mentioned before how much I love fruit desserts, but I don’t have a sweet tooth. I’m much more likely to choose potato chips than cheesecake for an indulgent snack.
Candy, especially, doesn’t usually interest me. I like the occasional piece of very dark chocolate with dried fruit or nuts, but a plain milk chocolate Hershey bar could sit in my cupboard for a year and I wouldn’t once be tempted to eat it.
Then last month I was at my sister’s house and she pointed surreptitiously to a bag of Raisinets on top of her refrigerator. “Don’t let the kids see you,” she whispered, “but help yourself.”
I don’t normally like milk chocolate, but I do like it wrapped around raisins. So I grabbed a handful of my sister’s pieces of candy, thinking I’d enjoy a few of them and that would be the end of it.
I’m embarrassed to admit how many bags of Raisinets I’ve bought for my own cupboards since then.
The funny part is that this food which I find so tantalizing consists of two things I don’t like that much. Raisins are fine in cookies or stirred into a bowl of oatmeal, but I never eat them plain. And I normally see no reason to eat milk chocolate when there is dark chocolate in the world.
Except I’ve tried dark chocolate Raisinets. I find the regular ones much more enjoyable.
And enjoy them I do: in small handfuls as a mid-afternoon snack or in lieu of a real dessert. I eat at least a few almost every day.
Although my dentist might not agree, my current Raisinet kick isn’t worrisome to me. I know I’ll get tired of them, the same way I recently got tired of grits after eating a bowl of them at breakfast for weeks in a row.
Sometimes when I pop a little chocolate-covered raisin into my mouth, though, I enjoy the humor of the fact that after I go off this candy kick, I probably won’t eat either milk chocolate or raisins for a long time. It’s only in this form that they are tempting to me.
Is there a particular candy that is your downfall? Is there any food where you don’t like the individual ingredients, but love the combination? Please spill!
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