Junk Food Nation, Friday is here! As I sat around watching week 3 of the NFL preseason last night, I wondered: does Obama play fantasy football?

1) Obama, Biden, Boehner, Reid and others all set aside their differences and meet randomly to hold a draft in the Oval Office … When its someone’s turn to draft, they have to go up to a White House podium they dragged in from the Press Room.

2) Everyone snickers because the President keeps picking Jay Cutler … they laugh even more when Boehner picks Colt McCoy.

3) They have some White House staffer input the teams into a yahoo league … the team names include “The Obamanation,” “The Dude A-Biden,” and “Janet Napolitouchdowns.” Timothy Geithner names his team “Favre Dollar Footlong” for the third year in a row – everyone groans.

Anyways, just a brief musing.  Can you think of any other presidential fantasy football situations?

On to the goods: so far on this blog I’ve done Chinese junk food, and Korean snacks.  Moving on with the international theme, today’s delicious snack comes straight from Mexico – Obleas Con Cajeta de Leche! Simply translated, these are wafers with milk caramel.

The Money Shot

Amazingly, this junk food only has four ingredients – Milk, Sugar, Glucose (?) and Flour.  We will also find out that this snack is two years older than advertised and is no longer eligible to pitch in the Little League World Series.

Aldama means...Aldama

I tried using Google Translate to decipher what the text on this label meant.  Turns out – a lot of these words are proper nouns and names of places.  Zounds.  I figured the big ALDAMA meant something more than…Aldama.  Like maybe ALDAMA meant DELICIOUS! ….nope.

I'm Mr. Cellophane

Flipping the circular disk over, the junk food is wrapped in a simple cellophane wrapping…

Thinly layered flour

…open it up and Voila! The candy is exposed! When you feel the surface, it’s silky smooth – there is a less-than-paper thin wafer/flour-like layer covering both sides of the caramel. For anyone who eats Asian candies, the surface felt almost like rice paper.

Snap!

Like an earthquake cracking open the surface of the Earth

Snapping this disc open, the surface immediately cracked and exposed the caramel within. So soft and juicy 😉  Not overly processed, like US caramel – it didn’t pull apart with long strings like stretching mozzarella cheese.

Exposed pure caramel

This junk food is simple in its design – just a big ole disc of caramel lightly sandwiches by molecular thin wafers of flour and sugar.  When you bite into it, the wafer-y layer immediately dissolves in your mouth so that all you’re left with is just delicious sugary chewy caramel.

I...yeah, I couldn't stop eating it

It was hard to stop eating this pure sugar snack. I was trying to think of an American comparison, and I couldn’t. The only pure chewy caramel snacks I could think of were Caramel Creams. But this caramel was much much tastier – rather than the processed waxy crap we have in the United States, this caramel was sweet and unprocessed. It melted in my mouth and dissolved with my saliva very quickly. It didn’t stick to my teeth, yet was a good chew.

All in all, an excellent Mexican candy.  Way better than Choco Tacos.

Sincerely, Junk Food Guy