I’ve just discovered the most wonderfully unexpected treat.
You know the pickled ginger that comes sliced in a jar? The stuff that’s been sitting in our fridge for months now because we can no longer eat maki, but we don’t want to pitch a full jar of expensive sushi ginger? Yeah, that’s the stuff.
Take a slice out of the jar and suck on it.
It’s the greatest thing… first, it’s all sweet and delicious—that would be from the 3 grams of sugar per ounce of ginger. OK, so I’m a (slightly) bad monkey. Anyway, after you get used to the sweetness, the pickling finishes dissolving or melting away and you’re left with the hot spice of the ginger to chew on. It’s like two treats in one!
…See, I told you that you’d think I was crazy.
Nah – I heard a lot stranger than that.
Next time I’m at World Market I’ll pick you up some ginger chew candy.
I’ve been telling Diana she needs to try that candy, but I haven’t been able to find it around here. My Mom used to eat that stuff all the time, and it’s really good.
Have you tried the Ginger altoids? They’re in a green-ish yellow tin. They are exactly how you would imagine them.