09/05/2001   English German
  Edition # 32  
San Francisco, 09-05-2001

Sweets

Michael And now, dear children, let's turn to an important topic. Your Uncle Michael has researched this especially for you: American sweets. Of course, not "Twix" or "Milky Way," as you already know those from home.
Figure [1]: Sweets to choose from in my cubicle

In illustration 1, you can see the snacks that your uncle buys in bulk at the supermarket, occasionally nibbles on at work, and offers to his colleagues at cost price. Whoever takes a bar just leaves some money in the gum box so that I can buy another bulk pack next time.

Figure [2]: American candy

What is this in detail? From left to right in image 2: "Nutter Butter" are small cookies, most comparable to "Spekulatius." Taste rating: 2. The blue "Oreo's" package contains black round sandwich cookies with white filling--not really my thing, but when I recently left a large pack from the supermarket unattended at home, Angelika tore it open and greedily devoured it all before I had a chance to intervene. Rating: 3. Second row from the left: the "Clif Bar." A "healthy" bar (with important vitamins and nutrients and such) from Berkeley! Rating: 1, it's really super tasty, I eat it often. By the way, it costs $1.75 at the store, which is a real moon price for American granola bars. At Costco, you can get it for $1 a piece if you buy in bulk. Next: "Reese's"--small chocolate cups with peanut butter filling. When I first encountered this treat in America, it always seemed slightly perverse to me. Slightly salty peanut butter in sweet chocolate? Call me crazy, but I've gotten so used to it by now that I have to give it a rating of 1. Next: "Hershey's" chocolate bar. Americans can't make chocolate, I would trade 10 pallets of "Hershey's" for just one bar of Milka. Sigh! Rating: 4. "Chips Ahoy": so-called cookies (in German Plätzchen or Swabian Loibla) with chocolate chips. Not bad, rating: 3. Last row from the left: "Reese Sticks," like the "Reese's" above, also peanut-based, but more with the consistency of peanut flips, pressed into Twix-like chocolate bars. Quite good, rating: 2. Next: "Luna," the fitness bar for women. No kidding, it says so on the packaging. Initially, I had concerns about unwanted side effects and such, but now I occasionally snack on one when no one's looking. Rating: 2. And finally, at the bottom right in image 2: "Fig Newtons," fig paste in wafer dough, very tasty, rating: 2 plus.

That was the children's supplement "Rundi". Until next time! 'Night, you rascals! Quick, quick, brush your teeth, off to bed, it's already past bedtime! Back to the brutal world of adults.

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