Piglets

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Piglets

At first I thought they were baby hippos, but according to the packet they are piglets.

The baby colour is effective though and as kitsch mini sculptures the manufacturer, Docile Alimentos of Rio Grande de Sul, can be proud.

However...these are not as nice as their other sweets. The taste is the same (sweet + lemon) but the shape is not right. The irregular shape of the piglets just doesn't feel at all good in the mouth. And passing your tongue across is rather hateful. I think our mouths desire regularity in the forms of sweets. That's surely  why pastilles and gobstoppers are so pleasing. The shape sensation of these piglets is so unfortunate that one wonders how the makers didn't realise. 

Well, should you happen to receive a pack perhaps as a gift then the best way of consuming them that I found is as follows (I advise you use a timer, as one's instincts seem to lead one to forge to hastily ahead):

Place one the piglet on your tongue

Leave it there for up to 15 seconds

Draw saliva across it with a sucking action. 

Repeat the sucking action every 10 seconds very slowly for a minute

Move the piglet with your tongue to the your cheek, leave for 10 seconds

Shift piglet  to your molar . Chew with a single very gentle jaw action

Repeat 15 seconds later.

Ditto, until the sweet is gone.

 

The great advantage of this technique over chewing the piglet the moment it arrives in your mouth is that is that the it will not then immediately break into tiny but surprisingly hard fragments, from which it is much less easy to satisfactorily extract flavour. 

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