There are several Hispanic grocery stores in town, but a larger one opened recently with a restaurant nearby, so we decided to try out the restaurant and take a look in the grocery before eating. The rationale was that a Mexican store would sell good (fresh) salsa, but lo and behold, this place had NO salsa for sale. I like food adventures, though, so we decided to try something new. The meat counter displayed some things I did not recognize, and had the potential of ruining my appetite for the upcoming meal. We selected some cinnamon cookies for purchase, a safe choice which turned out to be very good. And I decided that the experience should include an adventure, so I selected some watermelon chili lollipops to try out. I like spicy foods, so perhaps there was something delicious about chili powder and hard candy.

Hahahahaha.

Here is the candy, which looks like dog poop on a stick. Sorry for the bad photography but you get the idea. The stick is covered in chili powder as well. Finger lickin' good.

Here is the wrapper, which implies that there is a delicious, juicy watermelon-flavored goodie inside. The stick, however, provides the warning of poop-flavored hell about to roil your taste buds.

The taste was so, so very bad. If you took a teaspoon of chili powder, soaked it in water, then left it to sit and dry out (and age) for a couple of weeks - that is what this atrocity tasted like.

Someone else agrees with me.

(Aside to Magic City residents: the restaurant name has the word "Iguana" in it. The decor was very nice, but the food was mediocre.)