One day Heinrich was walking around
town and found some delicious hot dogs on hamburger buns in one of
the shop windows. The looked very good but then he realized they
weren't really hotdogs. They were made out of marzipan.
Marzipan is an almond paste that is easy to mold, kind of like modeling clay. After the Germans shape the marzipan into a piece of food they use food coloring and paint them so they look real.
At Christmas time a popular gift is to
make or buy a Christmas basket of marzipan fruit to give to guest
when they come to visit. The more expensive fruit baskets are
actually not the most perfect. The best baskets actually strive to
have pieces that look real so the artist will put bruises and
discolorations on the fruit pieces.
Over time marzipan art has moved from
just being fruit to being other fun things as well. Heinrich found
this basket of marzipan that looked just like a basket of ladybugs.
The final basket Heinrich found was
filled with these things. He was pretty sure the whitish things were
hedgehogs, but he couldn't really decide what the green things were
supposed to be. What do you think they are?
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