Foods Every Maltese Child Spent Hours Snacking On
Many of us were lucky enough to grow up in an idyllic Mediterranean setting. Tonnes of sunshine, sea and general laid-back living, and best of all a whole load of gorgeous food.
Here’s a few favourites we can all remembering snacking on until our brains nearly exploded.
1. Ful (broad beans)
We ate these smooth, sweet, juicy babies as fast as we could peel them. Nothing feels more like Maltese childhood than that sticky outer ful peel that gathers under your finger nails.
2. Mandolini (mandarins)
We loved how easy-to-eat, juicy and flavourful these palm-sized fruits were. Except when we found a one at the bottom of our school bags after three days. #MoffaBomb
3. Frawli (strawberries)
Strawberries for maltese children are kind of magical – because they hide away for most of the year and then when they do show up they are big, red, moist, and beautiful. We even got strawberry rashes from trying to seize the strawberry-day so fervently.
4. The middle bit of the ħobża (bread loaf)
The scoldings from our parents about burrowing through that delicious salty dough and just leaving a ħobża skeleton for the rest of the family were worth it. So. Worth. It.
5. Dulliegħa (water melon)
Some kids loved this, some kids hated their parents for thinking they loved it. All kids ate it all the time, all summer long.
6. Bambinelli (tiny pears)
Like a mini-pear only so much sweeter and less grainy. We could go through a kilo of these cute little mofos without so much as flinching.
7. Ċiċri (dried chickpeas)
Even if you didn’t really enjoy eating ċiċri, you did. They were basically the fuel to our youth – and anybody in the wake of our gaseous trail knew it.
