Chocolate salo
Salo in chocolate is a Ukrainian dish, created as a joke or experiment and produced since the late 1990s.[1][2]
The recipe is thought to have originated in an ethnic joke about the Ukrainians' cult-like attitude towards salo, similar to the Italians' attitude towards spaghetti.[2]
In the late 1990s, Odesa Confectionery Factory started production of candies Salo v Shokoladi.[3][1] The chocolate candies were invented as an April Fool's Day joke. They were not actually salo; they contain a regular caramel filling with a small amount of rendered fat added as a salty flavouring.[2] Since then, the dish is available in shops and restaurants in various Ukrainian cities.
A BBC reporter called it "one of the unhealthiest snacks in the world".[3]
"Chocolate salo" is one of popular desserts in the restaurant of the Museum of Salo in Lviv.
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- ^ a b К 1 апреля украинцы сметают с полок магазинов "сало в шоколаде"
- ^ a b c Chapple, Amos (8 May 2019). "Ukraine's Pig-Fat Chocolate". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ a b BBC News - Pork choc on the menu in Ukraine - 21 June 2004