This post contains affiliate links. The idea behind peanut butter has been around for centuries. It’s believed that the ancient civilizations of South America ground peanuts into a paste. Modern peanut butter, meanwhile, traces its roots to the 19th century, when inventors in the United States and Canada developed methods for roasting peanuts and then…
This post contains affiliate links. Some people are coffee people. Other people are tea people. My wife and I are tea people. My wife loves teas of all types, especially ones with a dash of fruity flavor. She’ll also do herbal teas from time to time and is known to embellish her teas with a…
Dollar Tree is what is known as an extreme discounter. That means the store aims to provide rock bottom prices on goods. When you go into Dollar Tree, you know you’re going to see some insanely cheap stuff. For a long time, that rock bottom price was the same throughout the store: $1. In late…
Every year, an army of young girls descends on grocery store parking lots, community fairs, and your neighborhood to sell cookies. Unlike most people trying to hawk goods, there’s a chance you’ve actually walked toward them rather than steering away and avoiding eye contact. Why? Because Girl Scout cookies are amazing, that’s why. Thin Mints…
Girl Scout Cookies are maybe the most famous cookies in the United States. For that reason, Girl Scouts are one of the very few salespeople to come to your door that you might actually do business with. The cookies themselves are very good, if not always good for you. One of those Girl Scout offerings…
This post contains affiliate links. One of the most evil — and I emphasize evil — snack foods is cheese balls. They often come in these huge plastic (for lack of a better word) barrels, so there are too many of them. They taste just good enough to be worth eating. Worst of all, they…
Thin Mints need no introduction. They’re the most popular Girl Scout cookie in America, and they’re an institution so large that all you need to do is say “Thin Mint” and people can practically taste them. With apologies to the many other excellent cookie options the girls sell, I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to…
This post contains affiliate links. Dollar Tree sells a pretty good selection of hygiene products. The extreme discounter offers soap, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, and plenty of other necessities. Most of them are name brand, since Dollar Tree seems content to stock other company’s products rather than its own. One of the more interesting examples of…
Each of the Dollar stores has its own house brands. House brands, or private labels, are brands exclusive to that store. They’re not separate companies, but instead are labels that the dollar stores use to brand products they contract with suppliers to get. Like many companies with private labels, we don’t always know who the…
This post contains affiliate links. When most people think of “peanut butter and …” or “toast with butter and … ” they probably think of jelly. Specifically grape jelly. And for good reason: PB goes well with grape jelly. So does toast with butter. I happen to like grape jelly, myself, and it does the…