#meses

The "Protesting corrupt government" demonstration was over. I just want to tell you all I'm safe. Back to normal life, work as usual and back to The Sims related and talking about other non-sims thing to keep myself being productive.

Believe it or not, I had just know Roti Meses / Broodje Hagelslag a Dutch food recently, in year 2024. While I ate them when I was a child in school, and nobody told me Roti Meses was actually from Netherlands...

I thought it was ordinary western food known internationally including USA, later found on internet it is only famous in Netherlands, Belgium, and former Dutch colonies.

That was why I chose Roti Meses, in original Dutch language it is called Broodje Hagelslag. The Dutch sandwich with chocolate sprinkles.

for the next custom full meal custom content.

source: Wikipedia Broodje= Sandwich bread Hagelslag= Thin grained chocolate sprinkles

I ate Roti Meses again after more than 20 years, because the last time I ate Roti Meses when I was a child in school. Yes... seriously. The combination of chocolate, margarine, and bread is sweet, so it can give me sugar boost before I went to gym and jogging👍.

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For Western food chosen for custom meal CC, I do have strict rules. - No typical mainstream USA fast food and mainstream European food that are already famous internationally. So no burger, no pizza, no pretzel. - Doesn't have representation in The Sims game 2,3,4. - I have eaten them in real life, so that I know the taste. - Never have a chance to eat them, technically impossible or have some allergy to that food.

Then I chose food from Netherlands. So far I haven't seen representation of Dutch food in The Sims game. One of my consideration is that because my country was a former colony of the Netherlands from the early 17th century, when the name was Dutch East Indies. (Now Indonesia after declared independence in 1945.)

Throughout history, Dutch food have been inherited here, some have been assimilated to Indonesian food and became integral part of food culture in Indonesia.

Below are my photos. This bread has Meses from Ceres brand, "48% cocoa Dark Chocolate" variant.

Very easy to find Meses (Chocolate sprinkles) in nearby supermarkets and minimarkets, as easy as finding rice, because Meses are considered as ordinary food as Indonesian food, no longer "western foreign" imported product. They are produced by local factories.

The difference is: The cocoa percentage for original Dutch Hagelslag has higher percentage of cocoa compared to Indonesian's common cheap variant of Meses that usually has (9-11% cocoa), thus has more intense chocolate flavour. In the Netherlands, a product must have at least 35% cocoa to be classified as Hagelslag. Source: batiqa.com Yes there are more than 35% cocoa Indonesian Meses brands and variants sold here with more expensive price, Such as Ceres, the Classic variant (34,8% cocoa), Dark Chocolate variant (48%) and Ritz (37% cocoa), must be because they are products of company inherited by Dutch.

As Indonesia is the third of largest cocoa producers in the world (after African countries) exported cocoa beans to many countries, including your (western) country, the cocoa used for local Meses brands must be local cocoa. Ceres company has been using local cocoa bean for production. Source: Arengaindonesia.com

Ceres is the most famous brand for Meses in Indonesia. The company was built in Dutch colonial era, as the first chocolate company in Indonesia, under name Ceres N.V. inherited from Dutch and Chinese-Indonesian entrepreneurs, rebranded as PT (Limited Liability Company in English language) Ceres in year 1950. Producing several chocolate products made from cocoa, sugar, and milk. Source: liputan6.com

Aside from cheap variants and brands, below is premium brand, Ritz. Produced by Ceres.

For the butter itself, Indonesian people mainly use margarine instead of butter. Because in here, butter is imported dairy product from New Zealand, France, Denmark, Netherlands, thus very expensive food component, therefore using margarine, vegetable oil spread, as cheaper solution. Butter is mainly used for premium cake. Yes, there is famous butter brand, Wijsman Butter from Netherlands, usually for Spekkoek or Kue Lapis Legit. Definitely I'm not going to use Wijsman Butter or any imported butter products only to eat simple and cheap Roti Meses for quick and fun breakfast.

Meses are used a lot in many bread products and donuts, no longer has to add on white bread. So Meses are already integral part of food in Indonesia. I forgot to take pictures of them, here the pictures on internet.

More additional my photo and information click continue to read below.