I had some of the yummiest candy this weekend.

The candy is called Rhodopche. It looks really silly in English. I think it looks much cooler in Bulgarian: Родопче.

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Um, this stuff is so tasty.  It's chocolate and peanut butter. I haven't tasted anything quite like it before.

But to my untrained eye, anything that comes merely wrapped in foil looks a little questionable. Don't worry this didn't prevent me from trying the candy.

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I thought for sure that the candy was homemade because it's wrapped in tin foil but a Bulgarian friend was quick to correct my mistake this weekend. <!--more-->It turns out that the candy is store made and was packaged this way during communism. Apparently, not much has changed for this candy.

It's probably a good thing. I don't think anything needs to change. The combination of peanut butter and chocolate is divine and so creamy.

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Then this week in my on going attempt to learn Bulgarian or to practice my self-patience and to work on being humble, I stumbled through everything I did and ate over the weekend while my teacher dutifully listened to me and corrected me as necessary. After going through a long list of potato dishes including patatnik--one of my new favorite dishes--part potato, part banitsa and 100% delicious.

This lead me to the candy Rhodopche.

It was a really wonderful moment this week in my Bulgarian lesson.  I told her about this candy in Bulgarian and she said, she hadn't thought about or eaten the candy in 30 years. I was totally fascinated watching her think about the candy, the flavor and the last time she'd eaten it.

This made me want to eat another piece of the candy all the more. Only, I am in Sofia. And the candy is in the Rhodopes.