Tour of Italy
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:05 am
Local store has a big display of imported Italian foods. They did it last year and had a TON of leftover products. Well, they did it again this year, and gee, lots of unsold stuff. $8 bags of dried pasta, $9 jars of marinara. Pricey cookies.
This time though, when the sale was over, they just went right to clearance prices. $9 marinara was $2. The pasta was a buck and a half. Half liters of nice EV olive oil were $2.50 Some nice balsamic for a buck. I loaded up on oil and some interesting onion chutney for a dollar.
For some reason, all the various olive oils were in very tall, very narrow bottles. Just the sort of thing to knock over easily. I'd prefer a fat bottomed shorter bottle myself...like my women. These bottles are too tall for my cupboard shelves.
Across the store was also the clearance of Valentine day stuff, but at 90% off not much was left but conversation hearts candy and fuzzy dice with hearts on them. I did find some nice chocolate in a heart shaped box for a dollar, but otherwise a losing cause.
But I think I was a winner in Italy.
This time though, when the sale was over, they just went right to clearance prices. $9 marinara was $2. The pasta was a buck and a half. Half liters of nice EV olive oil were $2.50 Some nice balsamic for a buck. I loaded up on oil and some interesting onion chutney for a dollar.
For some reason, all the various olive oils were in very tall, very narrow bottles. Just the sort of thing to knock over easily. I'd prefer a fat bottomed shorter bottle myself...like my women. These bottles are too tall for my cupboard shelves.
Across the store was also the clearance of Valentine day stuff, but at 90% off not much was left but conversation hearts candy and fuzzy dice with hearts on them. I did find some nice chocolate in a heart shaped box for a dollar, but otherwise a losing cause.
But I think I was a winner in Italy.