1. Bread and Chocolate

What’s in it? A flat bar of your favorite milk chocolate

What should we know? I learned this one from one of my wife's roommates in College who was from Spain. From then on everyone who saw me put a chocolate bar between two pieces of French bread looked at me as if I were nuts. (No nuts, just chocolate.) Years later, an office mate who grew up in France told me that a chocolate bar and french bread was the schoolchild's afternoon snack of choice when she was in France. So when people laugh at you for eating a chocolate sandwich you can get all snooty and say, ”It's a European thing. You wouldn't understand.” Ha.

Bread Type? Fresh French Bread (sourdough is a nice twist.)