Monthly Archives: January 2009

So does anyone remember Fruit Rolls? I’m not talking about Fruit Roll-Ups that are like plastic strips of technicolor crap with cartoon characters on the boxes, I’m taking about the Fruit Rolls from the early 80s? Anyway, they were flat and round (conducive to twisting around your finger) and came on thin cellophane that always got super sticky, but they tasted like real fruit and were significantly less plastic-y then the “Super Kiwi Kick” and “Screamin’ Green” Fruit Roll Ups you find today (shaped like a parallelogram describes Wikipedia-did you ever think you’d hear that word again after 5th grade?). Anyway, they had natural-tasting flavors like apricot, strawberry, apple and raspberry and seemed somewhat good for you. Well, I think I found the modern day equivalent at Trader Joe’s. Their handmade dried fruit bars in flavors like apricot and boysenberry taste exactly like old-school fruit rolls, even if they are a little thicker and aren’t round, but they’re unsweetened, so maybe that’s the key? The dried fruit comes from fresh pulp. Whether or not you grew up on them like me, I highly recommend.

Trader Joe's dried fruit rolls

I swear I keep Grubhub in business. Being sick with a bad cold this weekend/week, I’ve hit them up for several meals due to an overwhelming urge to not get off my couch. My usual ordering suspects are Friendship, OK, and, um, Friendship, but I did go out on a limb and try out Thai Aroma a few weeks back only to be completely disappointed with a noodle dish that didn’t match the site description at all. Anyway, I love the delivery service for times like these..feed a cold right? I will say that sometimes the new restaurants they bring aboard just don’t strike me as the delivery types…Cafe Iberico? I want the crowded bar area, the loudness, 5 different servers and bottomless Sangria pitchers with my tapas, not plastic silverware. But the other restaurants (especially Friendship) can stay.