Walnut Cake, the last item of my Chinese New Year 2010 posts.
Not so much a cake as it was a candy.
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I should really know better by now.
See, when I picked up this small tube of candy, I expected to be biting into coffee beans, the kind that are ground to make coffee. Yeah, my mind works in weird ways. (And why would I want to bite into those coffee beans???)
Before I get to what was actually inside of the tube, let me talk about what I saw when I untwisted the top. Some little animal drawings with Japanese words ending in an exclamation point. Now this I would be surprised not to find.
Many people will remember White Rabbit Creamy Candies, with their white, orange, blue, and black wrappers and plump white rabbit trademark, as something they ate growing up. Yes, these candies have been around for years and garnered worldwide attention in recent times when the chemical melamine was found in them. The candies were consequently pulled from store shelves in September 2008. Well, apparently the original White Rabbit Creamy Candies are available again in some parts of the world (I haven’t seen them since their recall). Only now they’re made with milk from New Zealand and not China. And there’s also another version, which I’m featuring in this post, called Golden Rabbit Creamy Candy, containing milk from Australia. Is anyone fooled, really?
I know someone, and by ’someone’ I don’t mean me, who used to love eating sweeteners from little packets (think Equal and Splenda) as a kid. Forget lollipops, who needed those when he could tear into a packet of sweetener. That’s all fine and good (well, not really), but there’s an easier way to get a whole lot of sweetness, fast. |
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