Wednesday, October 10, 2007

I finally found it!

Ever since I got past immigration at Heathrow, I have been on a quest for the little pink bars of scrumptious heaven, so much better than the holy grail--Yogurette chocolate bars. The size of Kit-Kats, filled with strawberry yogurt goodness. It has been a heart-wrenching love affair for too many years to count. OK, so they are probably ordinary chocolate bars, but I happen to absolutely love them! It was the first thing I bought the last time I came to Germany. I had hoped beyond hope that their reach extended beyond the borders of Germany, but they weren't in any duty-free shops in Heathrow or Gatwick. Nor were they in anywhere in Bologna, Krakow, or Prague. I had just about given up ever finding them again, when I ventured into a Lidl for the first time in Europe. I know, Lidl's are nothing special--a grocery store where you can buy many things in bulk quantities--but I had seen them everywhere else I'd been, but had never gone inside. Actually, I thought the one down the street from Alma Mater in Bologna was a big laundromat, and even though I eventually figured out that it was a grocery store, I could never get away from it being a laundromat. Anyway... So I was in the Lidl, not really finding anything resembling the macaroni and cheese that I was craving, when I saw them! Yogurette bars, there in their pink strawberry goodness. It was better than finding the holy grail! I proudly walked to the cash register, bought my Yogurette bars, and barely made it home and made myself finish my Chinese take-out before I dove into them, because I knew that after eating a Yogurette bar, nothing else could possibly measure up. Last night as I was scouting another local grocery store, I found more of them--a bulk package with 30 strawberry Yogurette bars and another kind of Yogurette that has mixed berries and is in a lavender package! I didn't get them last night, but when I go grocery shopping today, you can believe those are at the top of my list! I absolutely love this--rediscovering things that I love about Germany and finding even more things to love!

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