Personal blog of christian
writer & fallible mom
Katy McKenna Raymond
in Kansas City, Missouri
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- Becoming Brenda Starr
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- That’s It
- So I’ve Finally Signed With An Agent. Now What?
- The Spoon
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- A Woman’s Train of Thought Has No Caboose
- However much we own, we are all still living on borrowed time
- After all, when restaurants shrink portions, they don’t shrink prices.
- As with everything in life, balance is key.
- Slow down, you move too fast…
- Yeah, I know. I have issues.
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Irregulars
It used to be the low, low price that attracted me.
Yeah, we were broke. Poor but proud, I suppose. Back when my kids were little, I’d say, “Go get the Toasted O’s and pour three bowlsful.” And the smart-aleck-du-jour, still too little to read, always answered, “How can we tell which box? Everything in the cupboards is yellow…”
He was right, of course. Good old Always Save brand. Yellow packages with black type. Understated graphics. Sleek, cool, urban chic. Nineteen cents per box for mac and cheese, baby. And believe me, my babies ate a LOT of mac and cheese.
I still buy the store brands. I’m spoiled that way, I guess. My very favorite is the Substitute Triscuits. A box of genuine Triscuits will cost you a pretty three hundred pennies, and I just can’t see it. I’m still out for a bargain, but now I buy the off brands for other reasons.
I went through a period of pitying the poor dears. Clearly, they’re rejects, unacceptable in genuine Triscuit circles—deformed, plus-sized or anorexic, some with unsightly fibrous tumors. It’s hard not to be on the side of the undercracker, and even though I can afford “better,” I choose the castoffs.
Once you get to know them and appreciate their unique personalities, you realize they’re way more fun than their lock-step counterpart crackers. Sometimes, I purchase my Wal-mart brand of Triscuits (called DoubleCross) for $1.33 and cannot wait to open up the box and see what I’ve got.
Who needs Cracker Jack when every box of off-brand crackers is its own surprise?
Always, the sizes, shapes, texture, and puffiness of the crackers is highly variable, unlike the perfection you’ll find with a box of “regular” Triscuits. If I needed Triscuits to make hors d’oeuvres for a party, I would buy the name brand, but for my personal edification? No way!
What could be better than reaching in and pulling out a cracker that’s fully twice the size of a regular Triscuit? I also thoroughly enjoy siphoning off all the splintery slivers. I can eat a lot of those slivers and have them barely add up to one whole Triscuit. Something about that gives me a thrill.
Sometimes, there’s not a drop of salt on a single cracker in the box. Now, that’s disturbing and if it happens to me, it’s grounds for returning the crackers. The only grounds I’ve found so far, but I have had to call them on it a couple times. More often, though, I get a fantastic box of extra-salty irregulars that I savor more than I ever could a regular old perfect Triscuit.
My favorite irregular of all? The cracker that got so full of hot air in the baking process that it’s convex. These luscious puppies easily split in two, doubling the enjoyment.
There’s NOTHING better than licking all the extra salt off a wafer-thin puffy split fake one-third-price store-brand Triscuit and then letting the delectible morsel melt in your mouth.
I don’t know why I’m telling you this. But since I have, I might as well add that my very favorite people are highly irregular, too.
- I pretty much shop at Whole Foods and buy a lot of their home brand. Most of it is pretty good, but I avoid their tortilla chips. That's okay because I've pretty much given up tortilla chips. Anyway, Whole Foods have their own Triscuits, called, "Woven wheat crackers." Isn't that a nice name? They're drier than the "name brand." But hey, crackers with nothing but whole wheat? At a reduced price? I'll take it! I hate to admit this, but sometimes I put cheese on them and nuke em for 10 seconds...
And sometimes I get on a salt kick. I don't know why that happens every so often, but I figure my body must be craving it for a reason so I go with it. If I'm on a salt kick and happen upon a good tortilla chip - I ADD salt. Isn't that pathetic?Posted by Suzan on 05/14/07 at 01:17 AM - Suzan--I need to check out Whole Foods. I've been in there a few times, but I've never really gotten the lay of the land. It's on the way to my MIL's new place, so I may stop....and yes, Woven Wheats is a poetic name!
Posted by Katy on 05/15/07 at 12:54 PM
- I bought a graphics card yesterday and installed it in my desktop. Previously I was using the inbuilt graphics thing on the motherboard. The problem is that as soon as the graphics card is installed, the computer suddenly stops detecting the wireless network in my house. My laptop can still detect it though from the same location. Could the graphics card be causing interference, or something?
Posted by blogger on 12/15/10 at 09:26 AM
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