10 items or less: about the enthusiast
Hi, I’m Cassie 👋 I’ve lived in New York City for almost five years. Before this, it was Boston, or San Diego, or Tucson, or Nashville. New York tops them all when it comes to amazing restaurants, iconic museums, and people handing out free energy drinks on the streets. But our grocery stores suck. They’re too small, my shoulders cramp up from squeezing past someone in the same aisle. They never label prices, so you check your receipt and you’re like, why did I pay $9 for a bottle of ketchup? I dream about the Star Market on Comm Ave by my old apartment, with its high ceilings and clearly marked prices, its fully stocked salad bar and adjoined wine shop.
I love grocery stores, so even the small inconveniences of NYC barely dim my experience. I love that I can walk two blocks in either direction and find a decent supermarket, and I love that even if the specialty grocery doesn’t have kosher salt, there’s an aisle full of weird organic vegan cheez puffs.
I fill my basket with roughly 3-10 items every few days, always inevitably forgetting protein and always inevitably buying a new flavor of Lays or seasonal Red Bull instead. So here’s a weekly documentation of new things, old things, unique things, weird things, cool things, tasty things that I find in Brooklyn, NY.
10 bullet points or less:
still seeking Jeni’s Everything Bagel ice cream
never been to Rao’s or Carbone but I stay stocked on the jarred sauce
Ghirardelli dark chocolate brownie mix > homemade
proud spring mix finisher
water, Cherry Blossom LaCroix, hot genmaicha, Barbie Olipop: drinks on my desk rn
does anyone remember Sobe Power Fruit Punch? nectar of the gods
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