Simply Roasted Corn

There are soo many types of street food found here in the streets, corners, most everywhere in Nicaragua.  I am currently collecting images and all the data I can to blog one big blog on street food  here.  But for now here is one to share- this goes along with the previous blog about sitting on the chicken bus in Rivas waiting for it to fill with people on our route home.  Simply roasted corn.  I have no idea what its called (yet) besides the Spanish word for corn: maize.  I believe I paid 5 córdobas for one ear of corn.  The old grandma selling it from a bucket handed it to me just as-is in the photo.  It had a barely-cooked but still sweet texture to it, and really gave me something to do for about 10 minutes, ha.

But what made me want to get this in the first place was this little girl, learning against some crates and dusty Pepsi bottles........

There are some images in this world that are wordless, and priceless, I believe I captured one of the rare few.