2007-02-20 - 11:09 p.m.
A few notes about food in Seattle.
First of all, I'm pretty crazy about Trader Joe's. And I only went there yesterday for the first time, right?
So I bought the "Organic Macaroni and White Cheese" for 99 cents a box, which is a pretty great deal for good food, at a low price, that wasn't made from cow udders fed to a growth hormone sticking out of a one-eyed chicken's coxcomb. But here's the problem with this "macaroni and white cheese" stuff that people are peddling off these days--there's no really any cheese at all in it. You can't even see it because IT'S WHITE. How do you even know it tastes like anything? If you can't see it and you can't feel a cheese explosion, maybe they just put a milky non-powder in that little organic pouch. Unless my macaroni turns an unnatural orange color, I won't believe it's cheese.
Second of all, I love this city a lot but it's bad at one thing--chai. The chai here is so weird tasting, I almost can't even stand it. I know it's because I've got quite a little sweet tooth in this mouth of mine but when I travel throughout the country and have chai anywhere else, it's always a pleasant combination of spicy and sweet.
Here, it's just spicy. Or it's just foamy. No sweet, no pleasant drizzle of sugar in your mouth. Which of course offends my sucrose sensibilities. It's probably made this way because Seattle is so eco-friendly and one with the earth and save the whales all at the same time, which is great and all. But the next time I order a chai here, I'm going to ask for it in a way so that they'll know to make it the way I like it:
"Hi, could I have a non-organic chai, please?"
"Could I please have a 12 oz. non-renewable resource chai please? With a shot of crude oil too?"
"Could I please have a big cup of chai that doesn't taste like a panda bear?"
"I'd like to have a non-hybrid chai, please--just an SUV chai, if you could."
"I'll just have one completley disposable, non-recyclable chai to go."
"Um...just..uh...one clubbed baby seal chai. Large, please."
