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Dasha prods the 's' shaped chocolate bar in front of her.
You can understand why she's in no rush to eat it - the Ukrainian student has just been served pork fat covered in chocolate.
Chocolate salo: Salty on the inside, sweet on the outside
"It's salty on the inside and very sweet on the outside. It's unusual yes, but it's completely disgusting," says Dasha Khabarova.
Forget deep-fried Mars bar. One of the unhealthiest snacks in the world can now be found in Ukraine.
For years people here have loved pork fat, known as salo.
Normally, small slices of the white fat are eaten with black bread, raw garlic and vodka.
But this new twist is designed to appeal to Ukraine's love of all things fatty.
Dasha prods the 's' shaped chocolate bar in front of her.
You can understand why she's in no rush to eat it - the Ukrainian student has just been served pork fat covered in chocolate.
Chocolate salo: Salty on the inside, sweet on the outside
"It's salty on the inside and very sweet on the outside. It's unusual yes, but it's completely disgusting," says Dasha Khabarova.
Forget deep-fried Mars bar. One of the unhealthiest snacks in the world can now be found in Ukraine.
For years people here have loved pork fat, known as salo.
Normally, small slices of the white fat are eaten with black bread, raw garlic and vodka.
But this new twist is designed to appeal to Ukraine's love of all things fatty.
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Re: Ukrainian Snickers
Fri, November 26, 2004 - 3:01 PM"Young girl, come and try my tasty salo, it's super salo," -
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Re: Ukrainian Snickers
Mon, November 29, 2004 - 3:19 PMThose aren't MY ukrainians! -
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Re: Ukrainian Snickers
Wed, November 15, 2006 - 3:43 PMoh my god, is this for real? How frickin nasty. I guess with decades of some of the crappy Soviet chocolate (well, OK, some of it wasn't so crappy, most of it that I"ve had was), they'd be used to trying to come up with ways to improve on the taste...
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Re: Ukrainian Snickers
Fri, November 17, 2006 - 5:47 PMCrappy Soviet chocolate = dirt
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Re: Ukrainian Snickers
Tue, November 6, 2007 - 7:28 PMen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_%28food%29
Salo (food) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When salo has been aged too long, or exposed to light, the fat may become oxidized on the surface and become yellowed and bitter-tasting. Then it can be used as a water-repellent treatment for leather boots or as a bait for mouse traps.
A Ukrainian tourist is questioned at international customs:
—Are you carrying any weapons or drugs?
—Yes, salo.
—But salo is not a drug.
—When I eat salo, I get high!
The expression "chocolate-coated salo" (salo v shokoladi), originating in an ethnic joke about Ukrainians, has become cliché among Eastern Slavs, referring to an eclectic mix of tastes or desires. In the early 1990s, the joke became reality at an unorthodox, art-oriented restaurant "Lyal'ka" in Lviv, which made the dish an exclusive, expensive novelty. The BBC reported it among the World's Most Unhealthy Foods, failing to report its humorous irony.
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Re: Ukrainian Snickers
Sat, March 22, 2008 - 4:10 AMMy dad would probably like this. He once told me that sometimes he missed eating lard on bread. He liked the flavor. He was born in a Displaced Person's camp in Germany. My Grandmother, Aunt and Great-Grandmother fled the Ukraine after my Aunt's dad was sent to Siberia for being an enemy of the state (for speaking out advocating Ukrainian rights). My dad was only 3 when they arrived in America however, my Aunt is 11 years older and I'm sure she remembers it all...the bombings and all.
