I Gave These Pastries Another Chance

There was a time when my mom kept bringing home savory pastries from Conti’s.

I used to eat them quite happily, until I started finding the ham and cheese particularly salty.

Then somehow, they all started tasting too salty to me.

So I stopped buying them.

For quite a while, actually.

Then one day after shopping, I found myself at Conti’s again and decided perhaps enough time had passed.

The ham and cheese was sold out, unfortunately, so I bought two other savory pastries instead.

One was beef.

And I believe the other one was tuna.

I say believe because I apparently took photos but neglected to leave my future self proper documentation. 😆

The surprising thing?

They weren’t nearly as salty as I remembered.

In fact, they were actually quite good.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the beef. It was perfectly okay, but there was something about the filling that didn’t quite work for me.

The other pastry, though, I enjoyed.

And after we’d gotten home from shopping, they were exactly the sort of snack I wanted. Something savory and substantial enough to tide us over, served with a pitcher of cold mango juice.

Present food included in the shopping, of course.

Because apparently buying food and then coming home to eat food is simply part of the itinerary. 😏

I’m glad I tried these again.

Sometimes I stop buying something because one experience puts me off, and then years later I discover that either the food has changed or I have.

Next time, though, I’m going back for the ham and cheese.

Assuming everyone else hasn’t gotten there first.

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I’ll set the table again soon.
Lady E
Founder, Lady E Eats
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