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don’t you love going to the supermarket? i do! don’t you wait patiently every monday morning while the new woolworths catalog downloads, all 3.1mb of it, so you can see what’s on special this week? i, um, do.

it’s just, my way of keeping the junk food beast in check is to only buy things like chips or chocolate biscuits or ice cream when they’re on special.

ok, plus, i’m just sad that way.

monday night, almost 8.30, i walked to the supermarket after putting the kid to bed. we needed milk. it was drizzling a little and the sidewalk was mostly clear except for those people outside the thai restaurant and the kebab shop. the supermarket aisles were easy.

this is what was on special, that i bought:
- two bottles of fresh peach fragrance dishwashing detergent
- a bag of frozen baby peas
- a toothbrush
- an avocado

this is what was on special, that i didn’t buy, although i really wanted to:
- english lamb and mint flavoured potato chips
(i think they’re a special release for the commonwealth games. there was also australian sausage sizzle and canadian bacon and cheese, but, hmm, no representatives from all those other countries with predominantly black or brown or yellow people.)
- oreo wafer sticks
(chocolate wafers filled with that pigfat stuff, covered in chocolate. i almost got them, until i read the ingredients list and discovered the primary ingredient was vegetable oil. maybe i should have got them anyway; i mean, what a testament to alchemy!)

then there was this:

what happens when a 23-year old marketing graduate gets together with a brand management guru with 20 years experience is tampons in a little pink stripey tin. apparently they are redefining tampons as “a premium fashion accessory” and “a gorgeous indulgence”.

they weren’t on special, but i bought them anyway. clearly i need to do the grocery shopping in the daytime, with the increasingly grumbly kid in the unwieldy stroller, bumper to bumper with all those other urban warriors. clearly.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 15 March 2006 at 10:11 am

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can i do it: three posts in a day? it’s just, i was in the asian supermarket at world square today, and right after i paid for a tin of maccha, a box of 30 assorted mochi, a biscuit that maeve had chewed to smithereens in its packaging (45c was a small price to pay for twenty minutes of quiet, contented child), and the shiny green box you see here, containing maccha and red bean flavoured chocolate mushrooms… i saw the shiny pink pouch you see here, containing happy candy. happy cherry candy. i had to join the queue again.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 12 January 2006 at 10:25 pm

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further to the last post, i thought that i’d have to document the brave new pocky that i found at miracle supermarket. well ok, so they’re not strictly pocky, since one of them is made by morinaga, and none of them is a pretzel stick covered in icing, but the point is how much flavour can you put in a pretzel stick!?

from left to right: NY brownie; maple syrup and butter; and the surprising reverse, where the icing is on the inside.

i can’t wait to eat my pocky.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 17 October 2005 at 11:13 am

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you know how sometimes you want pancakes for breakfast, but you’re too sleepy to chew? guess what!

yes, it’s creamy blueberry pancake yoghurt, which is a delicate purple colour and studded through with actual blueberries. it comes in a six pack with strawberry pancake and lemon pancake yoghurt, and i was walking down the dairy aisle of the supermarket a couple weeks ago, and suddenly the block of yoghurt was in my hands.

i was telling my sister about this quite impressive alchemy, but she interrupted me with an unpleasant gagging noise and said, “stop! do not tell me anymore, i don’t want to hear it”. the thing is, it really wasn’t horrible at all.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 6 May 2005 at 8:36 am

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oh what a bounty of new junkfood products have crossed these lips of late. you may recall the melted-butter-twisties-corn-puffs alert from several weeks ago. i found them, finally. after wrenching the packet open, i realised that they were meant to mimic melted butter flavoured popcorn. however it was like eating extremely salty packing material. tchk.

there are three new sorts of tim tams: one with a truffle cream filling (maybe a truffle creme filling), one with a chilli chocolate filling, and the one i did buy, the black forest tim tam. dark chocolate on the outside with a slightly gummy thread of “cherry” flavoured goo on the inside. feh.

there is possibly the best kettle chip ever! kettle chips are the tastiest chip to begin with, and the sour cream and sweet chilli ones really raised the chip stakes. but now that they come in wasabi and soy flavour, there is just no need to spend any more time in the chip aisle wondering which bag to get. this is a salty and tangy and crunchy chip, with a subtle wasabi effect. none of that nose-clearing, face-scrunching bravado that pepsimax sorts in sushi restaurants display, dredging their bits of fish in the little green mountains. hurrah!

there is this:

according to the text on the back of the package, the chips are “combined with your favourite chinese flavours. so you don’t have to leave home to experience the taste of your favourite chinese restaurant.” these chips were not discernably beefy (or special saucy), but they were kind of alright. the chinese fortune that i found inside said “someone called larry will call you soon”.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 17 March 2005 at 10:42 am

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following too much dimsum at kamfook in chatswood on friday, we waddled slowly and sleepily like fat little puppies (yet bouyantly and almost hysterically, what with the little bubbles of oxygen pumping through our veins — this always happens in the situation i’m about to type) down the aisles of the asian supermarket next door.

ah, jusco. such a trevor trove of japanese candy (including a broad selection of yoghurt and calpis flavoured treats) and instant noodles and exotic beverages. and this: a little cup of biscuit fingers with a pot of chocolate and sprinkles for dipping. based on my highschool level reading of the chinese print on the label, it seems to have come out of the indonesian branch of arnotts, specifically for the hong kong and taiwan market, and the packaging is ocha-ken.

gasp! who is tea dog?

via jascii.net: ocha-ken is a really short anime about tea. it’s about a little green puppy with tea-leaf ears named ryoku whose nose always tells him when there’s tea made just right to be had. he has a lot of different-coloured dog friends who also seem to love tea and coffee. the first episode, “have you been making tea lately?” is about how hard it is to make the perfect tea, not too hot, cold, thin, thick, but just right. when ryoku smells that perfect tea, he calls all his friends and they go over to hana, the purple dog’s place, where they see she’s being a great hostess. tea is the best, isn’t it? when you’re drinking it, maybe you, too, can see the cute little tea puppy!

who doesn’t like tea? and ok, i don’t want to be all weird about this, but look! you can get a plastic teapot toy, and it opens up into some sort of onsen situation where you and your different-coloured dog friends can drink tea and chat and have a dip in the hot spring:

um. management would like to apologise for the inordinate number of plugs in that post.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 22 August 2004 at 7:37 am

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after that last cherry-flavoured entry, i stumbled into the warehouse of wonder that is fratelli fresh, and emerged quite some time later with a sourdough loaf, a bunch of radishes, four little blocks of hazelnut chocolate that must have been made by little magic people, a jar of cherry jam, and a jar of cherries in syrup. “someone likes cherries,” opined the checkout girl. but, i mean, what a jar.

so far the jar has remained unmolested, but i have a feeling that if i were to rub it a little, a genie might pop out and grant me a lifetime of cherries and/or cherry-related treats. at the very least, he would expand on the label pasted on the lid, helpful with its instructions to “serve with ice cream, gateaux, whipped cream, desserts.”

posted by ragingyoghurt on 11 June 2004 at 9:16 pm

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oh it’s winter. the sky is clear blue and there are birds chirping outside. if my washing machine wasn’t broken i could be putting a load on and then spending the rest of the day smelling clean laundry ripening in the sun. the repairman is coming today “after twelve”, which i got the friendly service desk lady to narrow down to “anywhere between twelve and three”. sigh.

yesterday i queued for half an hour at medicare to claim $100, and then queued again (20 minutes) at medibank for another $100. i was just down the street from krispy kreme, but when i walked past all casual-like, the line was out the door and onto the street, and i just didn’;t think i could queue anymore, not even for donuts.

instead a brisk stroll brought me to il gianfornaio, where a slice of mushroom pizza was had, and two sicilian canoli packaged up to go: one with a dark chocolate custard and the other with fruit-and-chocolate-studded sweet ricotta. there was also a bottle of fanta, the remains of which i have just realised are still sitting in my mr friendly backpack next to my foot, instead of in the fridge for later.

[ puts fanta in fridge ]

so, the new fanta label says “now with 5% fruit”. mysteriously there is not too discernable a difference in the taste of fruitless fanta and what is now described as a “fruit drink”. i suppose it’s 5%… what? healthier? i definitely didn’t feel as ill as i normally do after drinking a bottle of fanta, but i suspect that has more to do with me just drinking a quarter of it.

i am rambling. why am i rambling? sleep deprivation?; maybe i need some juice. or fanta.

posted by ragingyoghurt on 1 June 2004 at 8:32 am

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that decadent ice cream, magnum, now comes in 60s flavours. the one i really want, “cherry guevara”, has thus far eluded me, but i have tasted “guava lamp” (where the guava strip running through the vanilla has an unexpected marshmallowy texture… well, you’ll expect it now) and “choc work orange”, my first experience of which was walking up the street and seeing an empty wrapper lying in the gutter and instantly wanting one.

it turned out to be pretty tasty — milky chocolate ice cream inside orange-flavoured white chocolate shell — although almost outdone by the fine bit of taken-too-farness on the back of the wrapper:

posted by ragingyoghurt on 27 February 2003 at 12:54 pm

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