Seven Layer Halva

Halle-lu-jah!  Halva-lu-jah!  One of my favourite Christmas time treats is halva! When I was a kid, there were three flavours - vanilla, chocolate and marbled. How exciting it was to see my mother unwrap the brown paper from the halva block and slice off small chunks for us to slowly savour. I really had no idea what it was; all I cared was that it was delicious.  Until one day a boy named Laird revealed the dark secret of halva. "It's made of hard helmets," he confidently declared.  "They grind them up in a special machine and turn them into halva.  My dad told me.  He saw them do it." My glorious halva went from delicious to disgusting with one foul dupe.  After that, I didn't eat halva for decades.  Even when I learned that halva is not really made from hard helmets, it just didn't hold the same magical appeal. Last week, while browsing the local health food store, I noticed something amazing.  Seven layer halva!!  I just had to buy it!  I just had to try it!  Back at home, my daughter caught me in a deliri-yum of halva. Daughter:  Mmm, what's that? Me:  Halva.  It's made of hard helmets.  Want to try some? Daughter:  That's disgusting! Me: Halva-lu-jah!