For Everyone Who Asked about the Olympic Celebration

I watched the Olympic opening ceremonies at Moo's house on Friday, and people have been asking which foods we ate and how it all went down, so here you go. (And if you're disappointed you missed the celebration, Moo says that the same idea works well at New Year's, eating food from different countries as it strikes midnight in different time zones.)

Before the introduction of countries, we ate dinner, which was lasagna (thank you, Italy), with chopsticks, and our drink selection was from Mexico (which Moo let us drink with dinner because she assumed we had SEEN people from Mexico that day, even if they weren't Olympic athletes. All the other foods were off limits until the countries they represented appeared on screen).

We didn't eat food from EVERY country competing in the Olympics. That would be hard. (Can you even get candy from Eritrea in Utah? Do they have candy?) And you'd have to eat FAST. And we already felt a little ill after three hours of snacking on the foods that we did eat, which were the following (in the order I can remember them, not the order we ate them):

• Turkish Delight - It's not a delight.
• Anise Candy
• Yan Yan
• Violet Crumble
• Brie
• Pineapple, Bananas, and Kiwi
• Rice Candy
• Dulce de Leche - This was the favorite.
• Nutella
• Zwieback
• Haribo Licorice
• Smarties - the kind that are popular in Canada
• some kind of chocolate from Ecuador that had a filling tasting remarkably like vaseline-textured cough syrup
• Miniature Eclairs
• Hob Nobs - I love these.
  
• Pear-Infused Lindt Chocolate
• some kind of Indian snack mix that burned our mouths
• some kind of hard, grape candy
• Fortune Cookies