Supermarkets are fun

Cheese and chocolate shouldn’t go together but that’s exactly what this is. Think of it more as cheesecake with a chocolate coating and you’ll get the idea. Called Turo Rudi, it’s a tasty little speciman from Hungary and the tip came courtesy of Eszter Hargittai’s post on Crooked Timber. She put together a whole annotated Google Map of Budapest.

I love supermarkets in foreign countries but my experimentations aren’t always successful. I went to a Krakow supermarket in desperate need of tooth floss and decided I should support the local product. After all, tooth floss is tooth floss unless you’re buying that silly satin stuff, right? Wrong. What I bought would more suitably be classified as low-grade rope. Yes, ow.