Want some sugar with that?

A few weeks ago, during a trip to the nearest supermarket, I picked up some crackers that looked like Ritz crackers. I like to eat Ritz crackers with peanut butter. But the Costa Rican versions of these items I can hardly stand. The local "Ritz" tasted more like graham crackers. And the peanut butter had both sugar and honey in it (or the actual insect itself, if I was to read the English label literally, which read "honey bee"). My favorite pb in the states has only peanuts and salt in it. I miss it. They have Jiffy and Skippy and nasty American products like that here, but I have always tried to buy the local versions of things when possible. Although during my last trip to the grocery store I caved and bought real Ritz. Even though they were made in Nicaragua, they tasted much more like the American version.

I've long ago stopped trying the ketchup. Way too sweet for me, and sometimes too watery. French fries enter my mouth un-sauced. In the savory---sweet continuum, I prefer a lot of items more on the savory (or salty) side.

Here they also drink a lot of fresh, home made juice. Most of the time it's absolutely delicious. My favorite is mora (blackberry). But depending on the concoction, sometimes it's waaaay to sweet for me.