Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Nuts4Nuts

I finally did it.  I went to the Nuts4Nuts guy.  And let me tell you, it was PHENOMENAL.  Nuts4Nuts you say? What is that? Well, it is a food cart that is outside the Costenera Center (which I pass by EVERY day, sometimes multiple times a day), that I've been eying since we arrived.  The smell alone must attract customers for miles.  It is a small cart with a man cooking sweet glaze in a big metal bowl and tossing peanuts and almonds around in it.  Then he bags them in these little white bags and sells them for about 75 cents a bag.  You open the bag to taste the warm, delicious, sweet, salty, nuttiness.  If you visit Santiago, this is a snack must.

This is the truck (well one like it).  I didn't take this picture, but they are all around Santiago. And, by the way, peanuts = mani, not cacahuates, which I learned in school.  I will add to our vocab list!


By the time I got to the hotel to take a picture, they were almost gone.


2 comments:

  1. Those look delicious. I don't blame you for eating them before going home. Sometimes we do that with hot tortillas out of the tortilla maker from HEB. :)

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  2. Yummy!!Reminds me of ND games...eating warm nuts!

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