An Unmemorable Snack

We were only in Brugge for one full day and we had tons of things to fit in, so we got a relatively early start. Our first "event" was a boat cruise through the gorgeous canals of the town. (The cruise was fun, but would have been nicer if it had been sunny.) To make sure we didn't get really hungry while cruising through the canals, we decided to stop at one of the food stands in Grote Markt (the central square in Brugge) for a morning snack.

Looking through photos from our day in Brugge, memories came trickling back about our snack here, but before we looked through the photos, we had completely forgotten that we had even stopped at this stand - ever. The first place we were going to write about from this day in Brugge was our lunch. When I made a list of the trip recap posts we needed to do (I really like lists), this was never on it. Neither of us really had any recollection at all of going there. It made so little impact on us that back when I captioned the photos, years ago, I didn't even remember then what we ate, so I definitely don't know now. Even better, I've thought all along that the name of the place was Bicky Burger, but didn't know until this week, 4 years after coming home from Belgium, that Bicky Burger is actually just a fast food burger that they sell in Belgium. Oops.

We got 2 snacks that day at the square and they are certainly not the most attractive of snacks. One looks like a fried meat sausage, like a frankfurter, and the other like some kind of long fried croquette. In the caption to the photo from whenever I uploaded it, I was speculating that they might be kipcorn and frikandel (but I really wasn't sure). Kipcorn is a long deep-fried snack with a creamy meat filling, so the one on the right could be kipcorn. Frikandel is a Belgian minced meat hot dog, so it could be the one on the left. Based on the pictures on Wikipedia, it certainly seems possible.

We really don't remember very much about the taste of these snacks. (Obviously, since we barely even remember stopping there and eating them.) We always like croquettes though, so I'm guessing we were okay with them.

After our snack, we headed over to the dock for our canal cruise, which was quite a wonderful way to see the town (we wholeheartedly recommend it). We definitely had more memorable croquettes in Amsterdam so we can't say you must stop here for a snack, but it was convenient. We're just not sure what the place was called...