My Taste On Dolcezze Savini – Pesche Mignon
“How adventurous are you feeling?” “Right now? Very.”
That was how the conversation started when I met with, the one and only, Darien Irizarry. We met each other at Conad and agreed to look around for ideas of something to make or if we can find anything new to experience. We scavenged trying to find something that catches our eye and after going around the entire store twice, we got nothing. We were about to leave when I saw these bright red sugary balls the size of a chestnut hiding on the second shelf near some cheese. The package read “Dolcezze Savini – Pesche Mignon”. We didn’t understand it nor any of its ingredients, so we bought it. Little did we know what these sugary balls would make us feel.
On the way home, we talked about what we think it’ll taste like. We said fruity, sweet, maybe like the seasonal sugar cookies that we never buy but always get at parties. When we arrived in my room, my roommates were doing their homework, there were no extraordinary smells, and overall my surrounding environment was calm. The initial smell of these balls was just pure shortbread cookie and sugar. Darien bit into it first and his face was instantly overwhelmed with disgust. I didn’t want his reaction to influence my experience so I quickly bit into this sugar-coated cookie ball that was filled with Italian Nutella. Woah. It was too much at once. I couldn’t think of anything like it.
There was a familiar fruity taste that would pass by in every chew. The cookie itself was soft in texture but was masked by the heavy sugar coating that gave it its crunch. The Nutella in the middle did not mix well with the sugar and the cookie. The thickness of the Nutella and the cookie together filled my mouth to the point that I couldn’t understand what I was tasting. Although the overall taste was very sweet (so sweet that it made my face cringe with a sour reflex) there was a hint of bitterness. Neither of us could explain perfectly what this bitterness was and where it came from. I described it as a medicine taste or something very very healthy. Not earthy healthy but like cardboard. The after taste was sweet and did not leave a strong trace in my mouth which I enjoyed, but it definitely made me thirst for water.
We attempted to google translate the package, and we came up with “Sugar Peach”. It did not taste like a peach at all. That describes the weird familiar fruit flavor. We wanted to know exactly what we just ate so we decided to do some research. The first thing we found out was what it’s supposed to look like, a peach. But really, it looked like a butt filled with shit in the crack. Also in comparison, we did not get a cute little fondant leaf with our Conad peach cookies.
Then we looked up how it was made…
When we found out that the cookies were dipped in wine, Darien flipped. Darrien does not consume any amounts of alcohol and so he felt tricked to have just eaten a cookie dipped in vino. That was the bitter taste that we couldn’t describe!
Personally, I did not like this Pesche Mignon. It was too sugary for me and I found it hard to finish. I also don’t care for peaches, which could tie into my taste preferences. I ate the second one days later and I still had the same feeling towards it. Although I did taste the peach the second time around. In our research, we discovered that its fairly easy to make and maybe one day we can make them ourselves. Overall I will never forget this adventurous experience. Even though I did not like the taste of Pesche Mignon, these red sugary balls would be forever tied to this story. Before this experience, I have never seen these peach cookies in my life and now I see them everywhere. It makes me imagine all the other foods that are there but I do not see. Now, I’m even more inspired to try new things, especially when their label and ingredients are in a different language. So what adventure next?
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