Our activities are getting mundane now: go to work, buy groceries, make dinner, watch Baywatch, repeat. I am going to have to get more creative with my posts. To that end, I will try to share some important cultural tidbits.
Today’s lesson is on the proper way to consume chocolate sprinkles. Yes, I am talking about those little brown mouse-poop shaped treats that we normally see decorating donuts and sugar cookies. Here in the Netherlands, you will find small boxes of chocolate sprinkles at the hotel breakfast buffet and in the office cafeteria. At the grocery store, you will find large boxes of sprinkles – enough to cover several dozen donuts. Like you, I wondered what the Dutch people could possibly be doing with all these sprinkles.
Dennis tried adding them to his coffee to make a nice mocha drink. But that generated surprised looks and shaking heads. Putting sprinkles in your coffee marks you as a tourist as quickly as wearing sneakers around town (something I still do, by the way).
My office mate is the queen of the chocolate sprinkles. Instead of buying the small boxes at the cafeteria, she brings her own monster box from home. How does she eat them? She sprinkles them on her bread and then eats the bread with a knife and fork. You might think that buttering the bread would be a requirement for making the sprinkles stick, but you would be wrong. Through some finely honed skill (or magic) those little brown things stay on the bread without falling off through the entire knife and fork maneuvering. And she doesn’t put just a few sprinkles on her bread either – she piles them on about ¼ inch thick. This is truly an amazing skill.
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