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Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2020-03-22 09:42 pm
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A moment of levity in the madness

Proof that people in my city have no taste: I went to the grocery store tonight and there wasn't a single bag of cheap macaroni in sight, but there was ginger coconut rice.

Who would rather eat cheap macaroni than coconut ginger rice?

The real reason I was at the grocery store was an urgent desire for cake, but they didn't have any cakes I wanted so I ended up with three ice cream flavours instead. Let's hear it for Browned Butter Bourbon Truffle, Maine Blueberry & Belgian Waffle Cone, and Wildberry Lavender Mascapone!

Two of which I have sampled already. :D
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[personal profile] flowersforgraves 2020-03-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
ohhh those first two sound amazing! I wish I liked lavender. I hope they were good!
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[personal profile] zdenka 2020-03-23 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
People who can afford cheap macaroni and not coconut ginger rice? Or people who are going for something simple and familiar when everything seems scary? I don't know, it doesn't seem that weird to me. (I have a very nice bag of jasmine rice myself to get me through.)

Ooh, that ice cream sounds delicious.
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[personal profile] kimboo_york 2020-03-23 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Those ice creams sound amazing, omg, what brand are they????
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[personal profile] walgesang 2020-03-23 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I keep meaning to say that your teas have been keeping me delighted these past few weekends! ♥ (and that I'm way overdue for sending some your way as well.)

Those are some delightful ice cream flavors!
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[personal profile] zdenka 2020-03-24 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
If you're on a limited food budget, then cheap pasta can be a staple and a thing people eat every week. Boring or not boring doesn't really enter into it when you're just trying to put food on the table. People's tendency to choose the familiar over the unfamiliar is one thing, and it can be interesting to think about. But sometimes people are gonna buy the cheap thing because it's the cheap thing because they don't have enough money, and it feels a little tasteless (as it were) to point and laugh at them for it.

But I don't think this conversation is really being useful, so I'll stop now.
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[personal profile] zdenka 2020-03-26 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
I appreciate that acknowledgement. In case it's not clear, I wasn't speaking theoretically; I just didn't want to go into personal details.