The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

After Committees of Correspondence left this in the comment section of a recent article, I thought it was only fair to make everyone else squirm with disgust by bringing the news out front.

You ever hear of Ukrainian Salo?
I understand they even have it chocolate covered now. ;-)
Pork choc on the menu in Ukraine

For years people here have loved pork fat, known as salo.

Normally, small slices of the white fat are eaten with black bread, raw garlic and vodka.

But this new twist is designed to appeal to Ukraine's love of all things fatty.

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For the equivalent of £1 you can now get four small sticks of salo covered in chocolate at Kiev's poshest Ukrainian restaurant.

And you can also get hold of the sweet salo - nicknamed Ukraine's Snickers - in Ruslana's home city of Lviv in Western Ukraine.

"I love it as it's unusual. I was given the first serving of Lviv's chocolate salo. Perhaps they were testing my bravery, but I ate it and I'm still alive!" Ruslana laughs.

But the chocolaty pork fat should come with a health warning, according to Dr Svetlana Fus from the Kiev Medical Research Centre.

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"It's the worst combination you could have. I think that people should steer clear of the Ukrainian Snickers."

The former Soviet republic already has one of the highest death rates from heart disease in Europe.
Ukrainian Snickers

Blech!

Funny thing is it looks like sh*t, and I'm guessing the taste ain't far off from it, too.