Cashews, or semilla de mariñon, are grown in Nicaragua and are sold pretty much everywhere. Most of the vendors in Masaya have learned the word "cashew" and are really proud of it so they like to find gringos to practice. The cashews are unsalted and really good; I'm sure if we find something like it in the US it will be $10 a baggie, but here they're just 50 cents.
After the 1972 earthquake that destroyed 90% of Managua, the cathedral was condemned, and the Catholic Church decided to replace it with the Ugliest Cathedral Ever.
It was finished in 1993 and is understandably controversial. It's supposedly the most recently built cathedral in the world, but sometimes people play fast and loose with their facts, so there's my disclaimer.
Choco bananos are, well, chocolate-covered bananas and helados (or caritas, depending on geography), are really delicious frozen treats that come in plastic bags. Like soda and other beverages you just bite off a corner and eat it through that hole. You will find them in a variety of flavors: fruit, peanut, milk, banana and milk, coconut, nancite, and some others that I can't remember. The quality and contents vary greatly because they're sold and made in any given person's house. Sometimes the fruit helados have papaya or watermelon, but the ones that I got today only had pineapple and banana. Regardless of the contents, they're delicious (and cheap--5 cents each).
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