Pick 3
The convenience store near Erica’s house identifies itself in three languages (“First Foods”, “La Primera”, and something in Polish(?) I don’t remember) so we made a dinner from the snack foods of three or four cultures:
- two frozen Stouffer’s dinners (me – turkey and mashed, Erica – Salisbury steak and
cornmac and cheese) - Cockta – a soft drink imported from Slovenia (“caffiene and phosphoric acid free”). It was flat and the taste makes Erica gag (I thought it just tasted like flat Pepsi).
- Plantain chips from Miami
- Sabritones – “Authentic Mexican Chile and Lime Flavor”. (Frito-Lay’s Mexican brand Sabritas controls 81% of the snack food market there.) Tangy!
I felt nauseous after drinking Cockta for the first time. You really “never forget the first one.”
Interesting tidbit: it was developed when Slovenia was part of communist Yugoslavia, as a “healthy” alternative to the decadent, sugar-infested but popular western soft drink, Coca-Cola…