The Haul - Issue #29

On Seltzer Bay

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I wasn't going to post on vacation but a) it's raining and b) I have breaking seltzer news to share.

The Eastham Superette? More like Eastham Super-seltz!! Hoot hoot amirite yee-haw!!!

^Not only was the Canada Dry very cheap (40 cents a can vs 33 cents at the surplus grocer) but this is a flavor we have never tried. I thought we had accessed all available Canada Dry seltz flavors: Mandarin Orange, Black Cherry, Lemon-Lime, and Pomegranate Cherry. But no! The official website does not list this peach mango situation at all, which means there might be a million other secret C-Dry flavors at superettes all over this great country! What a classy, modest brand.

I'm a Polar-head, don't get me wrong — it reps Massachusetts hard, it's 85 times better than LaCroix, and the company likes to experiment with fun flavor combos. That said, miss me with this cutesy, self-aware garbage, the natural endpoint of a marketing blitz that started with the grimly-conceived-yet-wildly-popular Unicorn Kisses. Dear lord, look at these hosers. I did NOT purchase the above seltz cans.

Whatever I'm not so pure lol. We DID buy these one-liters to bring to a beach bonfire, because a) they seemed summery and b) the Boston Globe website — which is curiously obsessed with Polar flavors — said they are both quite legit. Here are the Globe's overall Polar power rankings, by the way. 65 flavors! (They are flat wrong about #5.)

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Oh, someone wrote about surplus grocery hauls at Bon Appétit and eight of you messaged me about it. Thanks for all your support and righteous anger, friends, but it's okay! I've never tried to pitch the surplus grocer to any outlet besides my former employer; it's okay for other people to also love this kind of treasure hunt. I have no ownership.

LOL though. Time to close my laptop.

xo,

Jesse