I know that it’s good for the health of your hair or something, but this is oddly amusing. When shopping for groceries, it’s good to know that you can also find shampoo for your horse, especially around downtown Vancouver. Making a mental note on that one.
I like my orange juice in the morning, but this is getting a little hard to swallow. Normally, the price per can is a dollar less than what we’re seeing right now. Granted that this is the big name brand stuff that you can see above, but that’s still quite a bit. At the same time, Vancouver isn’t the cheapest place to live, so I tend to wonder if this is simple price inflation because they have the excuse to do it. Maybe a little bit of both.
We picked this up at the store yesterday while running a few errands. I already mentioned sometime ago about how we really enjoy soy milk with our cereal when we make an effort to pick that up for the morning. When we were faced with either getting Cheerio’s or these No Name Toasted Oat Os, I could not help but want to go with something that literally says “no name” on the package as its brand name, with a registered trademark no less.
And you know what? It’s fantastic! I won’t say that it’s for everyone, but this stuff is good to me. Of course, I’m also the type of guy who got made fun of by roommates in college for buying “Soy O’s” opposed to the typical staples of Captain Crunch or those massive bags of econo-brand Fruit Loops. I also love granola and/or oats more than chocolate and/or cake.
Who knew that, literally, no name could be this good?
We finally made it through the award winning coffee from the Clubside Breakfast Time folks this week. When you’re out, you need more.
We wandered over to Capers on Robson St. last night, thinking that we’d go for more organic stuff because we really loved the one pound of Olympia Coffee Roasting Co. beans, fair trade and organic goodness. Although, the beans were a slight issue, but I found that a blender works for grinding them. I also found that I might have ruined the blender.
Anyway, we hunted down the coffee section and found that they pretty much had only whole bean coffee, aside from one brand that we couldn’t tell much about other than it was just coffee. Dark, medium, or what? These things matter.
Finally, after a half hour of looking at various, organic brands and almost giving up to head to the grocery store to buy already ground coffee, we watched some random woman go throught the process of grinding beans with the machine in the store. After learning what we could through the corners of our eyes, we gave it a shot.
Low and behold, it freaking worked! For so long I have feared making a complete idiot of myself using the in store coffee grinder, worrying that I would send beans everywhere or a big pile of grounds on the floor. That’s not to say that we didn’t have some issues, but once we actually got the machine to give us our beans, the grinding was pretty easy after that.
Vancouverites love their coffee. I’m slowly becoming one of them, but it all works out in the end. I’m getting more and more Vancouverites to love margaritas. Poncho’s ain’t half bad either.
