/leh kiakiereh/
Noun - masc. plural - *Lit. 'the small talk'
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| (courtesy of wikipedia for this appetising image...) |
When I first arrived in Italy, it was at the end of February which was near to the date of italian Carnevale, and around this time a lot of shops and cafes (and even supermarkets) start to sell desserts and cakes which are only really typically eaten around carnevale.
'Le Chiacchiere' are strips of like a crunchy hollow cracker-like cake, which is supposedly sweet but only really tastes of bugger all. The one I tried was drizzled with dark chocolate which didn't really make the experience any nicer, and was dry as a bone.
The literal translation means small talk, but I have no idea why.. and I think a more accurate translation should probably be cardboard because that's more like what it resembled eating.
Yeah, okay it wasn't unpleasant exactly, but it wasn't exactly very tasty. Mmm tasteless strips of 'sweet' flavourless cracker... yummm.
*When I was googling for a picture of this dessert (it wasn't exactly nice enough to take a picture of at the time...) I came across an unanswered wiki question: "Why do Italians eat chiacchiere?". Answer is, well, nobody knoooowwss.*
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