Just the Two of Us
As many of you know, M and I were lucky enough to spend two weeks in France last summer with my parents. One of the best parts of our stay was reconnecting with some old family friends who live outside of Paris (in Louveciennes, if I remember correctly) and enjoying a dinner at their beautiful house on a lovely summer evening towards the end of our trip.
The entire evening was - of course - delightful and delicious, but I came away from the dinner with yet another foodstuff that I had to bring back from France (in addition to the wine, cheese, and chocolate that I was already going to smuggle home, not to mention everything else I purchased during Les Soldes!). Along with a lovely glass of Sauternes, we were served little munchies called Twinuts which are (according to my translation of the back of the bag) "a crunchy peanut covered (actually the world is 'enrobed'...hee!) in a delicious, light, and crusty cracker" and they come in many different flavors. They're totally addictive, as I'm sure you can imagine, and our friend Judy said that her family loves them so much she often brings them with her when she visits the US. She kindly gave me a bag of the "Mexican" flavor to bring back with me.
Of course, I knew just one bag would hardly suffice, so I spent a few days in Paris popping in and out of every supermarket to find more Twinuts in all their possible flavor permutations. I finally found them on sale at Monoprix (of course), and brought home about 8 bags that varied between salt (plain flavor), tomato-basil, bacon and spices, chinese, and indian flavors.
Because of some compulsion similar to the last bite axiom, I'm sure, M and I have tried to carefully conserve our consumption of the Twinuts and we still have four bags left. However, we're now worried they're going to go stale soon, and have decided to dive into our stash. Yesterday, we enjoyed the Mexican flavor with a nice glass of Amontillado sherry, and they were still outstanding. It's amazing how such a silly little snack food can make you so happy. I will be truly sorry when they're gone.
Comments
You know, I'm not much of a salty snack person, so I've never tasted those Twinuts, but I will sure have to! Are they made by Benenuts?
Posted by: clotilde | February 11, 2004 02:04 AM
Clotilde, yes, they're made by Benenuts. I looked all over the Web for a picture of a package but I couldn't find one. Personally, I like the Mexican flavor the best.
Posted by: Jenny | February 11, 2004 09:23 AM
http://static.parisbouge.com/img/albums/b/r/bronx_1043187157.jpg
Google picture search works wonders!
Posted by: clotilde | February 12, 2004 04:44 AM
How did you FIND that? I swear I spent 30 minutes Googling everything under the sun. The picture search has never worked well for me, though.
Thanks!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jenny | February 12, 2004 08:45 AM
You're very welcome! I think I just typed "twinuts" in the Images tab of Google... Maybe it has to do with being in the country Twinuts hail from? :)
Posted by: clotilde | February 12, 2004 09:09 AM
Today at the grovery store, I saw they carried Twinuts, but they only had the Chinese flavor, but you said you liked Mexican better, so I thought I'd check with you first : how was it? :)
And I'm sorry the link to the image broke your "last comment" section to the right of the page... :/
Posted by: clotilde | February 13, 2004 01:02 PM
Eh...I'm not picky about the "last comment" section...I'm working on some general updates so hopefully I'll have a new format soon.
We liked the Chinese ones. I also liked the Tomato-Basil ones. I did not (weirdly enough) like the plain salt ones, though.
Posted by: Jenny | February 13, 2004 07:58 PM