Saladitos

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Saladitos-Dried, salted plums. Can also be dried and sweetened with sugar and anise. Yet another is coated in chile and lime. They're considered a candy in Mexico. A common way to eat them is to take a few and stuff them into a lemon, sucking the salted lemon juice and allowing the saladito to rehydrate from the juice. Once all the juice from the lemon is drank, you eat the saladitos and discard the pits. A common misconception is that saladitos and chamoy are the same thing. While saladitos are made from dried plums, chamoy are, in fact, made from dried apricot.

Though many eat the saladito in a lemon, it is common for people to eat it with oranges as well. Some eat the saladito without any fruit, and discard the pit, while others rinse the saladito with water, and then eat it plain.

On some occasions, to spice up drinks, many potato saladitos are pick at the bottom of drinks like Sprite, or Ginger Ale. Once the saladito is placed in the soda, bubbles will begin to rise immediately. The saladito adds a new and different flavor to the drink, and often is very enjoyable.