
I didn’t think that the list of body parts I’d be consuming would include hair, but it seems I was mistaken. I’ve become addicted to a Lebanese candy known as sha’er banat (“girl’s hair”), a box of which has been sitting on a table within arm’s length of my work computer. It looks like a haystack (much more than any of the cookies that Americans call haystacks), and it tastes like sugar, slightly burned around the edges, with a hint of pistachio. Its texture is somewhere between what I would imagine a unicorn mane to be like and the contents of a magnetic sketchpad. It puts regular cotton candy to shame, and I’ve never been happier to have coworkers who make frequent trips to the Middle East.
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it sounds like indian 'soan papdi' which we flavour with cardamom(and/or rose water, depending on where its being made) and garnished with pistachio.
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