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Discoveries at the grocery store

Yes, I know I don't get out enough. That's why Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat "bites" are such a revelation for me. They're balls of candy -- like chocolate-covered peanuts or raisins -- except they're formulated like Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat.

Yes, I know I don't get out enough. 

That's why Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat "bites" are such a revelation for me. They're balls of candy -- like chocolate-covered peanuts or raisins -- except they're formulated like Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat. The ball versions taste almost like the real thing. For the true Coffee Crisp experience, you have to buy a bar. But if you're trying to be tidy, and don't really need a full bar, the "bites" are OK.

I couldn't find much promotional material about the Coffee Crisp and Kit Kat "bites" -- even at the Nestle site. But here's something

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Then there's .

It seems to be pretty much what the can says. It tastes like bubbly green tea mixed with ginger ale. Reams of stuff has been written about it.

The writer is not happy about the amount of sugar.

The word "yuck" is in the headline.

Being a person with a less refined palate than the folks above, I've come to like Green Tea Ginger Ale, despite its off-putting light green hue. But I do have a gripe. It's being sold in 10-can packs for the same price as 12-can packs. I don't think it tastes two cans better than Diet Coke.

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A nice app for assembling grocery lists is available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The app looks nice and is simple to use. Best feature: there's a long list of built-in suggestions, so if you can't quite remember specifics, the app might come up with it for you. It keeps old lists, stores favourites. The cost is $4.99 at Apple's iTunes store.

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If you like to peek at other people's grocery lists, check things out at , which bills itself as "the world's largest online collection of found grocery lists."

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I put a can of warm Diet Coke in the freezer to hasten the cooling and forgot about it. Turns out the can will explode. (Actually, I knew about this already, having once left a can of pop in a car in –30 C weather in Calgary.) The can split open in a nice clean line down the side and splattered frozen junks of Diet Coke within, thank goodness, a relatively confined area of the freezer. But it still took a while to clean.