Not really a lot to write about here I’m afraid. Primarily because we spent most of our time on Utila, an old British island used as a base to rescue slaves from the American civil war. As a result, the place is overrun by backpackers and staple diet is beer, namely the popular Salva Vida and its more palettable sister from the same brewery called Port Royal.
Wander along any street and you will be finding street food such as baleadas (flour tortilla with chicken, beans, whatever you want) kind of like a big flat savoury pancake. Tamales – originated from Mexico, these are corn meal wrapped in bana leaf and then steamed. Makes a tasty savoury breakfast and is often mixed with chicken or veg. You’ll see many a local wandering round with a banana leaf wrap of corn meal in his left hand.
Honduras doesn’t really have a great deal of fertile land and the crops are similar to Guatemala. The main export is Bananas. Lots of them. Check the next pack of bananas you get from the supermarket and see where they came from – maybe Honduras! They also grow a banana verde (Green banana) which is plantain – a carribean fruit which tastes like a cross between a banana and a potato, but looks like a big green banana. Personally I think it’s gross, but once again, if you like it then you can survive for a week on a dollar it’s so cheap.
Tastiest thing I had in Honduras might have been ice cream with melted snickers. A traditional dish said to originate from Clapham Junction in London – the capital city of England.
