Was at the clearance store (Home goods) today. Managed to find Mom her frying pan, but everything else was sort of sparse.
Most notable was the olive oil. We go through a LOT of oil and Home Goods has always been our way of getting good quality at a discounted price.
It being a clearance store, we naturally do not expect to be able to simply walk in and find any specific brand on a regular basis, but we have our favorites.
But getting to the point, the amount of oil is really down especially considering that October/November is usually the season where the oil is coming in and is at it's most abundant (well, Mediterranean oil; because of the opposite seasons, anything Australian, New Zealander or otherwise across the equator has everything reversed). I've only managed to find two bottles over the last two weeks that were worth buying, and one of those is a brand I have not tried before, and is Italian (not to get racist, but 1. I tend to prefer the flavors of Greek or African Olive oils to those of the Southern European countries and 2. I have often heard that Italian Olive oil is the most likely to be adulterated.
Other than that, slim pickings, two bottles of teriyaki sauce (unfamiliar brand) and a chocolate bar (just like last week and another branch was just a bottle of vinegar, two bags of hard candy, and a jar of honey.
Ah honey, that's another thing that's normally abundant in winter and is almost non-present. At the moment it's no big deal since I have gotten around to bottling mead in a while and the jugs are full, but for the first time I can remember, once that is bottled I have only honey enough for one more jug before I'm out.
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