Maria’s and Gloria’s

This post is dedicated to my roommate Dana, she told me to blog about Marias and Gloria’s, I think she wanted me to blog about Gloria’s, but sometimes she calls Gloria’s, Marias, so….you get both.

 

First: Marias

When I think of a non American, mostly third world kind of cookie, I think of a Maria biscuit. This is the cookie you can expect to get at any kind of tea time, as a snack at someone’s house, or at church.

“A María is a type of sweet biscuit similar to a Rich Tea biscuit.  The biscuit is round and has its name engraved into its top surface. While the Rich Tea biscuit is the most popular version of this biscuit in the United Kingdom, it is the Marie version that is most popular in most other countries, particularly Australia, India, South Africa, and Spain. Like the Rich Tea biscuit, many consider the Marie's plain flavor to make it particularly suitable for dunking in tea.”-Thanks Wikipedia :-)

Dana had never had Maria biscuits before. I randomly bought some at CVS this past week. I do not LOVE Maria biscuits, but  I was served them many a time as a child, and they are usually yummy. I bought them because I thought they were Marias with chocolate inside….they were not.  I guess that was just a suggested way to serve them….and I was tricked into buying them. But, anyway, I think Dana is a fan of the Maria biscuits, as am I, although now I’m trying to resist buying nutella so I can replicate the suggested way to serve the Maria biscuits.

THEN, Dana and I went to World Market, where they had Digestive Biscuits for sale, which are kind of like a Maria, but better, especially, when they are chocolate digestive biscuits. However the chocolate Digestives were all sold out, so I bought the plain ones, why? I don’t know, now I’ve been left with two packages of chocolateless biscuits.

 

Second: Gloria’s  

Gloria’s is a great restaurant in Addison, just about half a mile away from our apartment. Gloria’s is an El Salvadorian restaurant during the day, but at night they clear out the tables and turn it into a dance floor, with a live band, the place is always completely packed. I used to go to Gloria’s kind of frequently, but I hadn’t been in at least a year.

side note-I had a tiny realization on Saturday night, Dana and I usually decide we want to do something over the weekend, but we don’t usually make plans, which is where we were left on Saturday night, we had cabin fever and needed to get out of the house, next weekend if I want to do something maybe I’ll try to make plans before the night of.

But still I don’t know very many people in Dallas and Dana’s friends mostly had other plans. The two of us were about to go to the Gaylord Texas a giant hotel in Grapevine, just to hangout, see what we could see and find something to do, when Elizabeth saved the day and said she would to Gloria’s.  Not everyone wants to go to a salsa club, where almost all of the music is…surprise, salsa, merengue or reggaeton, but thankfully my amazing friends Dana and Elizabeth are up for just about anything. So we got all dressed up, drove down to uptown to hang out with some of Dana’s friends for awhile, and met up with Elizabeth and headed to Gloria’s. I was so excited. We danced for hours, I think we all danced with some good and not so good dancers, had a few awkward conversations, laughed and gave each other funny looks from across the dance floor, and left with sore feet. You never know who you’re going to dance with or what they may say to you, I never know if I should speak in Spanish or English or just not speak at all. Its a lot of fun though!