Pringles hot & spicy savoury snack - dehydrated potatoes,
vegetable oil (sunflower, corn), rice flour, wheat starch,
corn flour, hot & spicy seasoning (spices, sugar, flavour
enhancers (monosodium glutamate, disodium guanylate, disodium
inosate, granulated broth, tomato powder, flavourings, yeast
extract, whey powder (milk), dextrose, modified maize starch,
glucose syrup, acids (citric acid, lactic acid), milk proteins,
onion powder, jalapeno extract, paprika powder, chilli powder,
garlic powder, colour (paprika extract), acidity regulator
(calcium lactate), smoke flavourings), emulsifier (E471),
maltodextrin, salt, colour (annatto). How can something so
engineered taste so bad I don't know. Started off oniony, with
a little tomato, chili powder, and smoky heat. Curiously
untasty despite the substantial glutamate and onion content.
Finish of rice and corn, not potatoey at all. Long tomato,
grain, and glutamic finish. Not very nice.

Rainier blueberries, Selah, WA - big commercial berries but
with quite a bit of flavor, sweet-tart in the best way but
a little on the mushy side. I'd get these again.

Wild Maine Blueberries - Wild is Better! - The Little Berries
with the BIG TASTE! - Nature's Super Antioxidant [knockoff
Superman logo] - HEALTHY - Product of USA - Support Family
Farms - Blue Sky Produce (etc.) - I was prepared to hate this
product and would never have bought it for myself. I was
somewhat disappointed when I popped a few in my mouth and
discovered that the berries were essentially the same as the
ones I used to pick up above treeline when I used to hike.
Whoops. I probably won't buy them, though.

Rhythm Superfoods organic carrot sticks. Ingredients: carrots.
May contain cashew. These tasted like dehydrated carrots,
though the texture was not bad (somewhat crispy, not chewy as
most of these things are). Quite carroty, a little sweet, a
little bitter. A touch of salt and oil in the processing would
probably have improved them but frightened away the clientele.

Rhythm Superfoods organic beet chips. Ingredients: beets. May
contain cashew, soy. Okay, I would have thought that these
were made on the same line as the carrots, but no, there's
soy as well as cashew in this factory. These are beety in the
same way as the others are carroty, but here the bitterness
is pretty jarring - you don't think of beets in this way. It
seems that the crabgrassiness has transformed into something
shall we say crabbier. I didn't like these nearly as much.

Artisana raw walnut butter with cashews - surprisingly delicious,
a pronounced walnut taste with an aftersmack of unidentifiable
other nut. A bit on the sweet side but quite savory - I checked
to see if there was salt in the list or if the cashews had been
roasted - negative to both. I was impressed.

Canada Dry black cherry seltzer - pretty much like black
cherry soft drink without the sugar. That's to say, a sort of
fruity almondy flavor that has not a whole lot in common
with the black cherries I know. I recalled that Jim Beam had
a cherry-flavored whiskey at one time, so I tried using this
as a mixer for a slug of Beam white ... it was horrid, the
bitterness of the whiskey multiplied by the seltzer. Not to
be deterred, I paired it with Gosling's Black Seal rum, and,
guess what, it worked much better, and I'd do it again.
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