Say it with me: A-sigh-ee
A lot of people hate going grocery shopping with me. I take too long. I wander. And…ok, mainly I’m just slow. But I’m not ashamed. I’m proud of my lengthy grocery trips, because they are the reason I discover new (or newly appearing) foods like this:
Pictured here are just a few of a whole slew of new juices, smoothies, and teas made from acai berries that come from the acai palm trees of Brazil. I was intrigued. What was this new berry I had never heard of that was crowding the refrigerated shelves? Lucky for me, I work for a food Web site where others besides me can benefit from the research I then conducted (you can see my article here if you’re interested.)
Anyway, I wound up buying a bottle or two of acai juice smoothies that made promises of meal substitutions and antioxidants galore. Apparently,” a-sigh-ee” is supposed to taste like chocolate but…I don’t taste it. I think it tastes salty, kind of like olives. It’s unique, to say the least.
I’d probably get it again though because it’s a “superfruit” and that’s pretty cool. As you might guess from my POM tea consumption habits, I do love my antioxidants.
-Hillary, still craving Swedish pancakes even though she had them again recently (namely, last night)
Editor, Recipe4Living
Popularity: 7% [?]
Send to a friend:
[…] Ok whatever, it’s cute the first time, but if you spend a long time in grocery stores (like I do;) it gets to be pretty annoying. As far as pricing goes, it seemed as though prices did go up a bit […]
Posted by Chew On That » Blog Archive » Dominick’s Reopening at August 13th, 2007, 4:38 pmWe are tracking and reporting on the progress and new and exciting finds about this wonderful natural berry of the Amazon.
Posted by Planet Berry at August 19th, 2007, 10:02 am[…] definitely had some amazing and unique products (like Indian snacking chips, Casaba melons, and acai jelly) but I thought there would be MORE of a selection than there was. It seems my expectations […]
Posted by Chew On That » Blog Archive » Trader Joe’s at August 22nd, 2007, 9:28 am