Shopping disappointments

[flemmings]

Yes, so all the nutrition pages say Stay away from processed foods, but here in winter's last blast (snow that stuck for half a day yesterday) I wanted sossidges dammit, so I went to the super and bought two Happy Pigs sausages. Pork and spices, they said, not Italian or Mexican but plain pig and greenery. And either an excess of pepper or some kind of chili because my mouth burned with it so badly I had to break out the kefir. I hate to waste food but one was all I could manage and the rest went in the green bin. I will never understand this fashion for food that hurts, but these days try to avoid the sri racha flavour, just try.

And while I was there I got some more walnuts, reaching around the maskless middle-aged guy who was standing in front of the shelf in rapt contemplation of the riches on display. I should have contemplated myself, because they'd moved the containers around and what I got was in fact pecans. I've nothing against pecans except their calorie count, which isn't that much worse than walnuts as it turns out. But they don't go as well with apples and cheese as walnuts do.

Comments

[anna_wing]

I wish more people would do walnuts coated in dark chocolate, rather than macadamia, which are tasteless and dull.

[flemmings]

My evening snack is indeed a square or two of 95% chocolate and a handful of walnuts.

We don't get chocolate covered macadamias here unless the Korean store gets the Meiji ones from Japan, which they haven't lately, and anyway their almonds are better.

[anna_wing]

Yes, Meiji and Lotte are what I buy if I want chocolate almonds in small quantities, Royce if I want the luxury experience.

[incandescens]

Sausages can be very misleading that way, jumping out with unexpected spice when they’re cooked and on the plate.

[flemmings]

You think they'd warn you. You're supposed to list ingredients on the package, and if one is 'chili flake' it should be there.

OTOH I think these Happy Pig sausages come in bulk and it's the store that packages them in twos or threes, slaps the generic label on, and weighs for price. And someone got careless and put the herb label on what should have been Italian hot.

[smokingboot]

The need for a sossidge is a valid Winter requirement, and some variaties are mouthwatering. But I never quite understand when sossidge makers cover them in vast quantities of generic spice.

[flemmings]

We are so very upmarket in this 'hood that the foodies must have their tarragon with pecorino or their paprika Hungarian bangers. I eventually bought generic breakfast sausage from the Evil Superstore, filled with all those things you're supposed to avoid which Happy Pig doesn't add, and very good they were.