Xela Chocolate for Everything

The chocolate here is to die for–amazing mouthwatering stuff! We have hot chocolate a couple times a week with breakfast. The hot chocolate is amazing and has little flecks of the coco beans in it reminding me of flecks found in richer orange juice. It’s not unpleasant, but rather an interesting aspect of the drink. Another popular chocolate food is frozen fruits dipped in chocolate. Often I’ll have a mid-day snack of frozen fruit dipped in chocolate. My favorite is the chocolate dipped “bananas”–yum! One of the young girls here at the school makes them and sells them for only 2.50 quetzals (about 50 cents). Below is a list of other dipped fruits.

Chocolate Dipped Fruit: 

• chocobanano (banana)
• chocopiña (pineapple)
• chocofresa (strawberry)
• chacopapaya (papaya)
• chacosandia (watermelon)
• chacokiwi (kiwi)
• chacomanzana (apple)