Hello everyone!
Every place has it’s typical snacks that everyone loves and eats almost every day. I’m not talking about a meal, but something that you can eat whenever the hungry comes but it’s not lunch or dinner time yet.
I love discovering different types of food, so I would like to invite you to share your favorite snack from your country with us!
I’m from Brazil and as we are such a big country, it has many individualities among the states and cities, but there is something that’s a national passion: Pão de Queijo! <3
The translation for Pão de Queijo would be “cheese bread” or “cheese balls”.
It’s basically a roasted pastry with cheese. It’s delicious because it’s soft, warm, it can be in different sizes and sometimes stuffed with more cheese or other ingredients. Some people put ketchup on it, but in some parts of the country you may be judged for it, hahahah.
I personally like to eat it with a cup of coffee in the morning or afternoon.
In every bakery, school cafeteria, coffee place or supermarket in the country you can find this delicious snack.
It’s your turn now! Tell us what is the national passion snack from your country. Be sure to add some photos!
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Pão de Queijo looks and sounds delicious! I’m sure that I’m going to love them. These fluffy bites are actually the perfect representation of what I think comfort food should be. In my home country the most popular snack is banitsa (баница) or at least in my opinion it is.
It’s also a combination of dough and cheese, but I’m not going to get into a lot of details, because @FlameFox already published an amazing and very detailed post about it. So if you are interested to learn more about this Bulgarian snack, feel free to check her publication.
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Hello @KlaudiyaG ! Thank you for answering!
Pão de queijo really is tasty, although I think that anything with dough and cheese will be 
I’ve just read the post you mentioned about the banitsa and it also looks and sounds delicious!
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Ow, ha, so cool to see that my article has actually been in use for someone, here on Connect!
Thanks for the feature, @KlaudiyaG . Also, yes, @sarahroth it’s a popular one in Bulgaria and considering my recent experience, it’s not that hard to prepare even outside the country. A friend of mine found proper layers in Paris and handled … or at least it had a fair look 
Another popular (although not all around the country) snack is strained yogurt with jam. The article about that is already at my drafts however, I would not mind if another fellow Local Guide overtake the idea. It’s too sweet to be described, I guess. It’s also perfect for the summer season. Along with the yogurt with sugar snack. Yes, it’s real and it does not taste as bad as it sounds. 
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Oh yeah, I love the combo yogurt with jam, especially if the products are homemade ones. Do you enjoy having yogurt with honey and walnuts, @FlameFox ?
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It’s same right here on the jam situation, @KlaudiyaG . Homemade jars have somehow got actual taste. Their content, not the glass in particular.
Gelatin amount is less than fruits which most probably is the case with fabric. Have you got preferred home made jam? Ow, and do you like the bread with jam … joined by butter (perhaps), for a snack? Nineties spirit 
In a prefect world, yogurt goes with oats and fruits rather than walnuts. (#personalopinion) Combo of banana, strawberries or another high-sugar level fruit in the bowl is what makes the spoon. Walnuts, oats joined by dried fruits, eventually, is something I would combine with milk. Pig level increases to ‘Happy’, as long as it’s not a factory box combination. Is that the mix you are doing yourself?
P.S. Walnuts hand in hand with yogurt is a tarator combination, perhaps? That’s more of a regular meal rather than snack to me. Considering there are countries where soup is breakfast, I am slightly confused 
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hola @sarahroth se ven muy sabrosos esos pan de queso, aqui en argentina hay una versión local de ellos, supongo que no son iguales, ya que aquí son llamados pan saborizados. El pan tiene sabor a salame, aparte del queso, u otros condimentos, son muy sabrosos y en general se consumen los finde semana para tomar el mate cebado en rondas 
Saludos Farid.
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Sorry for the late reply @FlameFox , I was off these days, but now I’m back. 
I totally agree with you, if I have to compare the taste between yogurt from a glass container and a clay jar, the second option will be the absolute winner for me too. And yes, I do have a favorite home made jam and it’s from wild strawberries. When I was younger, I use to go quite often to Koprivshtitca for the weekend and of course every time that I was there I just can’t but help myself to buy a small jar of wild strawberry jam. It was so delicious that I just needed one good breakfast such as fried bread (пържени филиики), mekitsi (мекици) or of course the grand classic plain bread with butter to finish it off. 
I love milk and I do think that oats and milk make the perfect combo, but the last few years I try to avoid it as much as possible, because my stomach is not as strong as it use to be. hahahaha The strange thing was that it took me a while to become a fan of oats and porridge, but now I can surely say that they are one of my top favorite breakfasts, but dried fruits did not make the cut I’m afraid. Who knows, probably after 10 years, that’s all I would ever want to eat. Life is definitely unpredictable, as well as my taste in food. 
Do you have a favorite type of jam? Forest fruits is also a really good one in my opinion. With figs perhaps?
Olá @FaridTDF , que bacana! Não sabia que tinham essa variação do pão de queijo na Argentina. Deve ser tão gostoso quanto.
Obrigada por contribuir com meu post!
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Olá @sarahroth ,
Nossa é difícil escolher um snack só ainda mais no Brasil quando todos são maravilhosos. Eu particularmente nunca fui muito fã de pão de queijo apesar de fazer sempre para tomar café da tarde com minha família.
Os meus favoritos da vida são certamente coxinha, pastel e bolinho caipira (típico da minha região). Pelo menos uma vez por semana, nós temos o costume de se reunir tanto na casa da minha vó como na do meu tio para uma noite de coxinhas ou bolinhos caipira, todos feitos por nós. =)
Outra coisa que eu gostaria de lhe chamar a atenção é sobre utilizar somente fotos que sejam de sua autoria. Infelizmente no fórum não é permitido a utilização de fotos de outros lugares, pois, viola as regras do programa Local Guides.
Tell me about delayed replies, @KlaudiyaG and I will probably top the chart!
Summer is one of my least favorite seasons (not that there are a lot of seasons) where everyone has to either work or take the time to travel. I’m at the hard workers category. I am sorry for my delay too.
Clay jars remind me of childhood. Nan used to store yogurt in one of these. It was her cooking spare. Needles to say how children and kitchen order work and how angry she was when found my younger self in action.
I have to admit that I have never tried wild strawberries jam. Garden ones are my favorite or watermelon madjun (here’s the moment were, i should clarify that it’s actually a very thick syrup - to the non-Bulgarian or Balkan LGs :D). Don’t know if it’s popular around the country. Have you tried that?
During a recent trip to Geneva, I had the opportunity to try rose jam. Surprisingly, it was Bulgarian. With all the letters and stuff. It’s also nice but taste is not as saturates as the other jams I have tried. Like the figs, for instance.
These really go with mekitsi and fried bread. Spot on that and a high five. OMG, here’s another awesome snack that has turned into classics with the time! Never got the idea about mekitsi with sugar powder however the jam and that food … oh, meal of the millennia. How did you think about it?
On the oats with yogurt, I wasn’t fan of it until recently too. Being too lazy to prepare anything else and there, probably was no fresh milk in the fridge, I hat to try that and since that meal, my day off begins with this meal and tidbits at home are most of the time like that. Laziness is one of the greatest discoveries of humanity, I guess 