when in my youth I ate bread with ham, banana slices & ketchup over it - there were people, who called my taste perverted -
in German food tradition only things should or are appreciated as good combination, who have something in common or are neutral to each other- so you just don't mingle sweet with salty or sour - when Asian food brought sweet-sour meals on our plates it was a revolution - you could mix sweet pineapple with salty pork etc - well I was revolutionary with my banany-ham combination before..
Later on when I visited the States I thought it kind of perverted, when I saw Kathi putting that sweet white paste called marshmallow on a sandwich with salty peanut butter - I thought it perverted to mix sweet & salty together - but soon later I liked it to put honey, marmalade etc. on bread with peanut butter - Cathi later on was shocked, when she saw me eating bread with peanut butter & cucumber slices - well sour is closer to salty than sweet, isn't it?
Years later I watched my thai friend Peo, who eats a lot of really hot chilly in most of her food - dip fresh cherries in a very spicy & sharp fish & chilly mixture - "what a perversion", I thought.
then I saw last year the film 'Le chocolat':
"En ouvrant une confiserie � proximit� de l'�glise, Vianne bouscule le paisible village de Lansquenet qui entre dans le je�ne du car�me. En proposant d'irr�sistibles confiseries chocolat�es, Vianne attire les gourmands, et la haine de ceux qui craignent que ses friandises n'am�nent les fid�les au p�ch�. Le Comte de Reynaud, maire du village, s'oppose farouchement � la myst�rieuse chocolati�re."
& here I heard first in my life about a chilly chocolate - whew - think about that combination - well I was very curious later on whether this combination really existed or how it would taste - could you really imagine eating hot chillies in combination with chocolate...
I was hot for that combination!
I've been in the South of France for a week (tonight I came back) - & while we were shopping in one of the big commercial centers called Casino - I noticed under all that sweets & chocolate kinds one chocolate with "Chilly - Noir" on it - of course I took it with me at once - Is this the ultimate persuasion of bitter chocolate & & hot chili or just an awful mix of tastes? -
Now at home back in Germany - I just ate 2 pieces of that hot chocolate - & it's so delicious - just my taste - show's how perverted I am in taste - they don't sell this chocolate here & I need to find someone who sends lots of it from there to me from time to time - it's just the perfect flavour of chocolate to my perverted taste..
of all the perversions in food taste in life I ever got aware - this one was the hottest & I like it..
