A couple of months ago I spent a long weekend in London with my wife and daughter. While my wife was working, I took the poor kid on a forced march through food markets, museums and tourist sites. After 5 solid hours of walking, I let her pick out anything she wanted from a convenience store in Mayfair. This is what she chose:

The Nestlé Aero bar — basically a chocolate bar that’s so puffed up with air bubbles it thinks it’s a piece of Styrofoam packing material — comes in regular and mint versions. This is the mint, and its insides are the color of a cartoon crocodile:

(Yes, the picture is fuzzy: I warned you about photo-suckage.)

I became kind of obsessed with these things — that rush of minty, melty cheap chocolate — and ate as many as I could in England, cobbling together my last few pence in the airport. I recently (uh, oh) found them again at Cost Plus, where they cost a dollar and change. Also, Sawicki’s Meats Seafood and More in Decatur carries them for a heftier markup.