La découverte

Let me show you something delicious.

I know! You’re like, “Blair, is France really so awful that you are going to off yourself by ingesting a deadly legume spread? Have you completely lost your mind?!”

Answers: No, and kind of.

For starters, it’s not peanut butter! Ha ha, I have fooled you with my excellent trick photography and the fact that this does, in fact, look a lot like beurre d’arachide. So much so that I still feel a little nervous eating it (what can I say, I’m a creature of habit).

Speculoos are gingerbread-esque cookies that are often served alongside cups of coffee here. That or chocolate covered almonds, go figure. But! Some brilliant genius figured out how to get all the sweet and somewhat spicy taste of ginger cookies into a spread. And it’s delicious. And it goes so well on crepes. And spoons. And, like, my finger straight into my mouth.

Is this what Nutella is like for you normals? This magical substance that you can put on anything and make it tasty? Because if so, putain but I’m jealous. I just had to discover this with only 6 days left in France.

The downside is that unlike Nutella or other similarly semi-continental snack foods that have migrated to Whole Foodses across America, Speculoos spread hasn’t really caught on stateside.

No worries, though. This should tide me over for most of winter break. Hopefully none of those professional 4th-amendment violators and amateur frotteurs at the TSA will have a sweet tooth and relieve my checked bags of my cache. I will totally sue.