Ive never liked caramels. The molten sugar taste sweet, nothing special, jus sweet. Worst part about it is the aftertaste. It feels like uve shoved a jar of old sugar into ur mouth, and ur tongue becomes so saturated with a sweet taste that ur jaw feels numb and u r desperately looking for water to wash it away/down. The feeling is sickening. However, Marchen caramels made me understand why caramels are so popular. I got these at a Hokkaido fair at the Isetan Supermarket. They are like sweet snowflakes. Melts quickly, evenly fills ur mouth with a light sweetness, that leaves quickly before the sugary flavour becomes too heavy. Its like magic.
The experience was similar to the one ps Judah Smith described during service, while he was here in the church im attending, as a guest pastor/preacher. He had described his first time to a cheese factory as an adolescent, and how boring and laborious the tour of the factory was, and having only tasted modified, preservative saturated “cheese” he had the worst time possible during the tour. Only when he was “forced” to sample some of the cheese at the end of the factory tour, did he realise how magnificent cheese truly was. I probably had similar thoughts in my head when the promoter nicely asked if I would like to try some caramel. How wrong I was.
I had recently watched this youtube clip, with a sample of the type chemical “cheese” that ps Judah Smith had described while preaching. Ive always hated mac cheeseburgers, and never thought anything cld be worse. Well… I was wrong again. The burger in the above clip, is made of chemicals! It kinda disgusting that they have u think, u are eating beef and cheese when in fact u are chewing on emulsifiers, starch, yeast and gallons of preservatives (which effectively makes lesser gruel). It’s tiresome to think that large f&b companies spend more on packaging and advertising than on the food itself. Worst part is that the expenditures are justifiable (as in, I understand why it is done). Even so, I dun agree that the ends justify the means and prefer to find a way to break the vicious cycle.
Till then, I’ll jus enjoy my caramels.
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