Just when I was beginning to accept the fact that my diet here is ridiculously low cal and I’m going to lose weight while I’m here (I’ve basically only been eating rice, corn, beans, nuts, vegetables, fruit, and a little bit of cheese) I found perhaps the yummiest junk food in the country, and it is sold at the tiendita next door. It is called Mante Chox and is a Bimbo product. We have many Bimbo snacks in the U.S. (at 7/11′s mostly) but the selection up north does not begin to represent the breadth of their product line. For starters, they are THE commercial bread supplier here; I haven’t seen any packaged bread that isn’t by Bimbo. But that’s beside the point–on with the reveling! Mante Chox is essentially a delicious mini cupcake that is filled with chocolate cream, and each package contains two of these precious little gems of trans fat goodness. Hoooooo yesss. When I bit into my first Mante Chox I felt like I was going home to mama. It tastes like comfort.

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