Expired Polish Food
Sep. 21st, 2007 04:11 pmFrom time to time I go by Oxford Foods on Cook Street.
Sometimes I walk in and buy things.
It's a filthy place, notable for its generous selection of Polish foodstuffs that are at or near their expiry date, and therefore available at a hefty discount.
For example, I have just finished eating a 150g (5.25 oz.) packet of "ginger breads choco hearts" (serca szivecske).
I believe they come from Chemnitz (Ciemne).
The ingredients are descirbed in twelve different languages on the back of the packet: GB, D, F, CZ, H, HR, SI, LV, SK, EE, RO, and PL.
In English the food is described as "ginger bread with fruit filling covered by chocolate similar mass".
And so it is.
The cover depicts raspberries, strawberries and blueberries, but the only fruit specified in the ingredients is "apple condensed paste".
It was only 99 cents, marked down from $2.99.
That same day, I also bought almost-expired bottles of cherry juice and Jaffa cakes, made by the same company that made the gingerbread.
I did not buy any of the packets of cornmeal-crusted back bacon or almost-vacuum-packed pastrami, though they were cheap and haven't made me sick yet.
There is a limit.
Yum yum yum.
Sometimes I walk in and buy things.
It's a filthy place, notable for its generous selection of Polish foodstuffs that are at or near their expiry date, and therefore available at a hefty discount.
For example, I have just finished eating a 150g (5.25 oz.) packet of "ginger breads choco hearts" (serca szivecske).
I believe they come from Chemnitz (Ciemne).
The ingredients are descirbed in twelve different languages on the back of the packet: GB, D, F, CZ, H, HR, SI, LV, SK, EE, RO, and PL.
In English the food is described as "ginger bread with fruit filling covered by chocolate similar mass".
And so it is.
The cover depicts raspberries, strawberries and blueberries, but the only fruit specified in the ingredients is "apple condensed paste".
It was only 99 cents, marked down from $2.99.
That same day, I also bought almost-expired bottles of cherry juice and Jaffa cakes, made by the same company that made the gingerbread.
I did not buy any of the packets of cornmeal-crusted back bacon or almost-vacuum-packed pastrami, though they were cheap and haven't made me sick yet.
There is a limit.
Yum yum yum.