Arri London wrote:
> Lynn from Fargo wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 11, 2:30 pm, Boron Elgar > wrote:
>> > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:30:01 -0600, Gloria P >
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > >Blinky the Shark wrote:
>> > >> Yes, it's food-related. The guessers in that forum did not have that
>> > >> clue, but I wanted y'all to know it's OT here. 
>> >
>> > >>http://tinyurl.com/4o8b5h
>> >
>> > >Some kind of sausage?
>> >
>> > >gloria p
>> >
>> > Fruit paste candy.
>> >
>> > Boron
>>
>> OK - do we get to find out? This is driving me nuts. (a short trip)
>> Lynn in Fargo
>
> It looks like a sweet made by stringing nuts and then dipping the string
> in concentrated fruit juice. Popular in Turkey and Georgia. Don't know
> the name however.
Excellent!
The person who posted the photo eventually said, "It's a Georgian candy
called churchkhela ჩუ*ჩხელა. It's walnuts strung together
and repeatedly dipped in sweetened grape juice until the nuts are
enveloped in a fruit-leather sortof coating. A dear Georgian friend is
always plying me with some Georgian treat. Watch out, here comes the
mchadi..."
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