I will forever associate Clearly Canadian drinks with family road trips, as we’d find the distinctive glass bottles in gas station fridges along the way to wherever we were headed. Whether in Gasoline Alley in Red Deer, or at one […]
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Review: SugarSin Sparkling Rosé Gummies
Prices are a complicated motivator. It’s easy to be drawn to a cheap bag of treats, but it’s also almost just as easy (at least for me) to be entranced by a candy that is strangely expensive for what it […]
Review: Perrier & Juice
I have a fraught relationship with Perrier. On the one hand, bubbly water is simple and refreshing. It’s the original diet soda, with no funny artificial sweeteners to distract or strange flavours to linger. It’s a nice change from tap […]
Review: Ocean Spray Chocolate-Covered Craisins
Wait, what? Since when has Ocean Spray been making chocolate-covered Craisins? Why did nobody tell me? I only recently found these in the produce section at several grocery stores in Calgary, in the spots where you’d normally find regular Craisins […]
Review: Oxfam fair trade Bio Cola
As much as I love Coca-Cola, I know there are people who don’t like it for a variety of reasons. Some dislike it on nutritional grounds, while others take issue with the global ubiquity of massively multinational companies. Personally, I […]
Review: Unibroue Éphémère Blackcurrant
I’ve sampled quite a few of Unibroue’s Ephemere fruit beers over the years, and they’ve always been worth the price of admission. I have vague memories of a raspberry Ephemere and a peach Ephemere, but the main one I know […]