[caption id="attachment_751" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="The drink Boza. "]<img class="size-medium wp-image-751" title="Boza " src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dsc05798.jpg?w=225" alt="The drink Boza. " width="225" height="300" />[/caption]

Boza is a strange fermented wheat drink that you can find in almost every grocery store.  Very often you can also find it in Bantitsa shops.  I tried it once in August.  I didn't love it.  Actually I thought: holy smokes, people actually drink this stuff!?!

But my cousin is here visiting me and I am trying to give her a Bulgarian experience so I bought a bottle of it.  Thus far, we've had shopska salad, shepard's salad, kebapche and kyufte, bantitsa, street pizza, frech fries with sirene cheese, and snezanka salad.  Today, I made her drink boza.

The thing about this drink is that it's slightly fermented and made out of wheat.  It's not alcoholic but it is really, really thick.  Texture-wise, it's kind of like drinking a yogurt smoothy in the States.  The flavor however is uncompareable.  <!--more-->

What makes this drink kind of  strange is the conistency, the flavor and the color.  I guess the people could say the same thing about egg nog.  But just to be clear this drink does not taste anything like egg nog.  However, maybe a big spash of whisky would make the Boza more palitable.

The best part of this experience is this:

[caption id="attachment_752" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="My cousin trying Boza for the first time! "]<img class="size-full wp-image-752" title="Boza face " src="http://www.karolinkabulgaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/dsc05804.jpg" alt="My cousin trying Boza for the first time! " width="500" height="666" />[/caption]

This is her Boza-Face.  I couldn't help but laughing and laughing.  Lucky for me she's a good sport and is up for trying anything.  She didn't finish her Boza but then again, neither did I.  I have a hunch that she's not going to take up Boza drinking.

After lunch, I did something I hate.  I threw out the nearly full bottle.  I bought the 1 liter bottle two days ago for .55 leva. This is next to nothing but I still hate not finishing things.  Only I knew that I would never finish this bottle.  Sorry Boza.