Saladitos

Saladitos are dried, salted plums, which can also be sweetened with sugar and anise or coated in chile and lime. They're considered a candy in Mexico. A common way to eat them is to take a few and stuff them into an orange or lemon, sucking the salted juice and allowing the saladito to rehydrate from the juice. Once all the juice is drunk, you eat the saladitos and discard the pits. A common misconception is that saladitos and chamoy are the same thing; saladitos are made from dried plums and chamoy are made from dried apricot.

Some eat the saladito without any fruit, and discard the pit, while others rinse the saladito with water, and then eat it plain.

On some occasions, to spice up drinks, many potato saladitos are put at the bottom of drinks like Sprite, or Ginger Ale. Once the saladito is placed in the soda, bubbles will begin to rise immediately. The saladito adds a new and different flavor to the drink, and often is very enjoyable.