Enjoy the things you can afford
Brand: McVitie’s Cost: £1.50 Found at: Morrisons We live in a time where I can access the combined knowledge of humanity from my cozy bedroom; a time of facial recognition, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotic surgery, privatized space travel, cryptocurrency, drones, and a thousand podcasts about serial killers. And yet somehow, in this amazing,... Continue Reading →
Brand: Sainsbury’s Cost: £1.35 Found at: Sainsbury’s I don’t know what makes this luxury. The packaging is a little fancier, and there is a little more deep-fried ground pork around my boiled egg, but it is not as if I bit in and thought I’d won the lottery. It tastes exactly the same as a... Continue Reading →
This is an egg, wrapped in ground pork, breaded, and deep-fried. I love it. The name of the game is cholesterol and I am HERE TO WIN. There is not much seasoning, but it turns out that seasoning is not necessary: with enough pork fat and salt, there is plenty of flavor to go around.... Continue Reading →
Brand: UK British Pork Cost: £1 Found at: Sainsbury’s This sausage roll has all the flavor of an unseasoned, grey tube of meat wrapped in dry puff pastry. Because that is what it is. A grey, flavorless cylinder of pork off-cuts that has been unceremoniously shoved into a stale pie curst package. Where is... Continue Reading →
Brand: Tunnock’s Cost: £1 Found at: Sainsbury’s I arrived in Scotland as I arrive in every new country: jetlagged, bewildered and smelling of sweat and sleeplessness. Just because I travel a lot does not mean that I travel well. And the last thing I wanted upon my arrival was a new experience: I wanted a... Continue Reading →
Brand: Marabou Cost: 10.95KR Found at: Coop This chocolate bar has tiny little Tuc crackers in it. Not cracker crumbs or crunchy cracker fragments, but whole, miniature Tuc crackers. It is possibly the most adorable chocolate I have ever seen. Now, I love Tuc crackers on their own – they are crunchy and salty... Continue Reading →
Brand: Côte D’Or Cost: 7 KR Found at: Coop This chocolate is too fancy for me. That is not to say that I do not like it – I can always accustom myself to the finer things in life - but this chocolate goes just a little too far. It evokes a level of... Continue Reading →
Brand: OLW Cost: 9.95 KR Found at: Coop I have gotten into a vicious spiral with these chocolates. I buy one for the blog. Then, in a moment of weakness, I eat it without ever having taken a picture or making any mental notes about what to write about it. Then, realizing that I... Continue Reading →
Brand: McVities Found at: Coop I come from the heart of coffee-land. Growing up in Washington, coffee has been a central part of my culture since childhood. The coffee shop was the public space in a rainy world where the newspaper weather forecast did not need to be updated for months on end. It was... Continue Reading →
Brand: Torto Cost: 38 KR Found At: Asian Market When I first moved to a foreign country (in China, back in 2014), I was completely overwhelmed. It took me a long time to adjust to a place where everything was different – the language, the culture, the layout of the city – and I struggled... Continue Reading →
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