Puto, Cake and Foot Plates

This is someone's idea of dessert. It's kind of pretty isn't it? It looks like balls of sorbet. What it is, is puto. The ingredients are rice, water, sugar and food coloring. No one offered me any so I can't describe the taste, but it looked and smelled like gooey rice balls. (Is it okay to sniff, photograph and post pictures of people's food without their knowledge?)

Later, we were given cupcakes by a patient's family. The nurses who enjoyed puto, wrinkled their noses at the offer of cupcakes. That meant more cake for me. I think that things worked just fine.

I overheard a coworker asking for a foot plate. I had never heard of this, but I figured it was some kind of orthopedic device. Later it was delivered. It was a fruit plate. It might be time to get my hearing checked.