Olives for Breakfast
Trip Start
Sep 07, 2008
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Trip End
Dec 09, 2008
The hotel in Heraklion offered a huge free breakfast each morning, with scrambled eggs, hard boiled eggs, five kinds of bread, two kinds of cheese, three kinds of cold cut meats, etc. I was tickled by their offering two different kinds of olives for our breakfasting pleasure. Very Greek. Also there was Greek yogurt and honey. Ok, you need to go out and buy a tub of Greek yogurt right now. It's not the tangy, runny ick of American yogurt. It's strained until it's more a solid than a liquid, it's sweet, and you drown it in honey from the bees of the Greek berry fields. We can get tubs of this kind of yogurt in the specialty section of the grocery store in Oregon, but Bear doesn't know what it tastes like because it's so good I've never been able to spare a spoonful to share.
Comments
Greek Yogurt- Yum! Yum!
Well, living in a very conservative city -- Greek Yogurt?! -- well, that was Greek to me!
Last week my husband and I vacationed in a not so conservative -- yet -- much smaller town. I passed a very small grocery/deli and saw a sign for Greek Yogurt. (I believe it was the Chicago influence that made this possible). I high-tailed it in and bought Greek Yogurt.
I will never eat regular yogurt again, really, never!
Yum! Yum!
-George