I sometimes forget that I haven't been keeping this blog since the beginning. This means that, in a way, some of those wide-eyed wonderment euerka moments that happened at the beginning, have been a little bit lost to time. And while some of those discoveries have endured others have drifted away. Perhaps lost forever perhaps to be rediscovered at some future point in time.
One of the things that I discovered early in my leave was Neutella. It was one of those things that always stuck with me for my canoe trip days. A large jar of chocolate hazelnut deliciousness spread on crackers on bannock or on leftover pancakes is pretty hard to beat when you are sitting on the side of a river. And so, one day on a whim in the grocery store, I picked up a small jar of Neutella and put it in the stroller next to Ruby. I still remember sampling it that day on some fresh homemade bread. It was just as spectacular as I remembered it to be and perhaps even more so.
Curious as I am I couldn't stop with just the Neutella. I embarked on a fairly thorough investigation of the variety of hazelnut chocolate spreads available to me through my local no-frills grocery store. All those chocolate sandwiches was pretty tough slugging but Ruby and I seemed to manage just fine. Now, I have nothing against discount brands and buy them often, but to be perfectly honest in some places they just don't measure up to the real thing. Chocolate hazelnut spreads is an example of this phenomenon. It all has to do, in my mind, with texture. The discount brands seem to be a little bit more sugary, and so, they have a grittier feel on the pallet. Presidents choice, on the other hand, makes a spread that, in my opinion, is indistinguishable from the real thing.
Of course, no matter how you slice it you're eating a chocolate sandwich for lunch and that's pretty hard to beat.
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