#chiitara

Pistachio-flavored chiitara, or processed cheese sandwiched between thin sheets of processed fish. Chiitara is a classic drinking snack, but the pistachio thing is new. Usually I’m happy to see a new pistachio product hit the shelves, but I imagine I might give this one a skip. I might even throw it *in* a skip actually—no, sorry, I just can’t resist a pun. Chiitara is fine, if not my favorite thing. If I see this three more times, I am probably gonna have to try it. Further updates as events warrant.

MISAMIE! And CHIITARA gives me life yo 😭

This is called cheese tara, or chii tara, or cheese sand. The sand stands for sandwich, and the sandwich part comes from the white rind; it’s pieces of mild cheese sandwiched between layers of codfish (tara) paste. Tasty enough if you know what you’re getting, but an unpleasant surprise if you’re expecting some kind of cheese sandwich.

For something that is accurately described as fish cheese, it’s pretty tasty and a decent enough snack with beer. I should say, the taco flavoring is EXTREMELY unusual. Maybe I should’ve snagged these.