Thanks, everybody, for all the comments on the posts and photos last week! I’ll get some replies to the questions posted in the next day or so.

In the meantime, today I have a quick followup on the chocolate festival. Let’s take a look at a photo of one of the foods on offer:

Chocolate-covered marshmallows on a bun

Actually, there are two odd things to see in that photo. On the right, there are bags of pretzels that are not chocolate covered, even though this was a chocolate festival. Chocolate-covered pretzels do exist here – I’ve seen them for sale in the supermarket on a regular basis, so there was no explaining why these were naked. As it were.

However, the food I really want to talk about today is that thing on the left. It’s a chocolate-covered marshmallow on a roll. On a regular bread-roll. I.e., the bread was just like what you’d use for a hamburger – it’s not a sweet roll, just regular bread.

Why would anyone put a chocolate-covered marshmallow on a regular bread roll, you might ask? Good question. Beats the heck out of me. It struck me as such a strange idea that I wasn’t inclined to try one, actually. I mean, I like bread and I like chocolate-covered marshmallows, but I could not fathom that either would be improved in combination with the other.

However, when I mentioned this to Chris, he pointed out that as a kid he loved Fluffernutter sandwiches: peanut butter topped with a marshmallow spread.  So, he did not see anything inherently bad about the concept of a chocolate-covered marshmallow on bread. He thought it was strange, but plausible.

He also was inclined to think that I owed it to my blog readers to try this concoction. After some debate, I agreed that we would both try it. I did not grow up with those Fluffernutter sandwiches, after all, so marshmallow on bread — with or without peanut butter — is still a bit of a hard sell for me. Go figure – I have no trouble trying all manner of odd foods, but this one definitely fell outside the area that I classify as the “it might be good, we should try it” range.

Anyway, try it we did.

The verdict:  Chris thought it was OK, albeit not as good as the peanut butter and marshmallow sandwiches from his childhood. Personally  I thought it it was overpoweringly, cloyingly  sweet.  Waaay too sweet to my liking.

But on the up side, it wasn’t nearly as bad I as expected it to be.

Would I get one again? Not unless there was some other variation on the theme to try: Peanut butter and chocolate-covered marshmallow on a bun, anyone? Peanut butter is hard to find around here in Tübingen, so — gosh darn it — I won’t easily be able to try that particular combination here.  If you live in a country where it’s easy to get peanut butter, you’re on your own to try this at home.

There’s only some much I can do for the blog, after all. 😉