Welcome to Ghetto Truffle!

From Merriam-Webster Online (www.m-w.com):

ghetto (n): an isolated group b : a situation that resembles a ghetto especially in conferring inferior status or limiting opportunity

truffle (n): a candy made of chocolate, butter, sugar, and sometimes liqueur shaped into balls and often coated with cocoa.

You may be scratching your head: "what's with ghetto truffle?" It all started one day while I was whipping up a batch of homemade truffles. My first attempt. To make a long story short, I screwed up when it came to rolling the chocolate into the traditional truffle shape. The chocolate was too firm, so I gave up, broke up the chocolate into chunks and dipped the chunks into the unsweetened chocolate. Given their misshapen shape, my husband declared them "ghetto truffles".

And, being a liberal from the Detroit-area, living in West Michigan, well...