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Filtered water… for what
Words cause our brains to make certain associations. For example, water is supposed to be fresh to be best.
So I find the following marketing posted by water fount to be interesting. First, Princeton University wants people to think their water is “fresh” but really, it’s filtered. Second, they don’t really advertise what is filtered out. The EPA report designates Princeton city water as containing PFAS chemicals. So, does the filtering actually solve that problem? It makes me wonder if drinking local is really healthy.
The hard life in New Jersey
One of the hardest things to cope with in New Jersey is the change in quality yogart providers. We are accustom to Belleweather A2 yogart but apparently it is only available in Costco’s on the west coast.
Kinder Eier
When I was a kid, part of the whole special experience that a Kinder Überaschung Eier created was due to the novelty of the characters they created. It was their toys and their ideas.
Now, it seems that they have in some way reduced to catering to facilitating mania. It is as if their brand isn’t as big as it once was and they think that they need to piggyback on someone else’s moment. It’s really say that they don’t seem to be able to retain their uniqueness in both brand and culture.
Canadians selling sexism in Germany
I don’t know but the marketing slogan seems to be sexist.
German Waters
One thing that I had not even factored into my upcoming move, and my trip to Germany was a change in the taste of water. Our water in Eugene at Baker Boulevard is simply the best. It might be the copper pipes, but it taste fresh.
So I decided to test out two German waters and compare it with the Evian water.
The Evian water tastes mineral-infused, rather than fresh-glacial. The one on the left, in the glass bottle, has the strongest mineral taste. Mostly I bought it for the glass bottle over the plastics, but it is also not to my tastes.
Strawberry and Riesling 2024
This is very likely the last jam for a few years.
Earlier this season we got a number of pounds of strawberries and froze them. Tonight we chopped them in the ninja and then cooked them down in a double batch using certo gelatin packs. I also added 1 1/3 cups of Château St. Michelle 2014 ‘harvest select’ Riesling. It was exceptionally golden wine that year and the year before if I recall correctly.
Thanks Becky! 10 years ago we got this wine for this purpose. Mission accomplished.
Blueberries
So I buy blueberries for my kids and they leave them til they mold. The neighbors’ bush goes ripe and they pick three quarts and eat nothing but blueberries all day.
Here is what’s left
Second Annual Paterson Winterfest
Lidl in New York
Lidl is one of those low cost groceries in Europe which is trying to exercise its brand in the United States.
My experience with Lidl is that its product line is not all that great.
Most chocolate bars in the dark chocolate area have “chocolate liqueur” rather than cocoa as its ingredient.
When I looked at its granola options each granola had high fructose corn syrup as an ingredient.
Finally, we bought a can of black peas and sixty percent of the can was water.
In the USA Lidl as experienced in New York may be a low cost grocery, but it is also a low value product line.