Wednesday, January 14, 2026

A thrifty tea & chocolate pairing


I haven't been in a Target in a while, but I'd read about some acrylic boxes they had at a great price and decided to look around after I found the boxes. I noticed that some cinnamon-flavored Bigelow Tea was on sale in the grocery section, and since this was a blend I hadn't tried before, I decided to get it. At self checkout, I discovered the tea wouldn't ring up, and there were no cashiers on duty, so the lone employee I spotted told me I'd have to wait for someone to return from outside. (Odd, but that kind of thing seems to be happening all the time these days.) When she got to my … (Register? Computer? What do we even call the things anymore?), she just typed in a price of fifty cents, and of course I was fine with that!


This tea frankly reminds me of Harney's Hot Cinnamon Spice tea, so this was a fine deal on a new-to-me wintertime tea.


But here's what I really wanted to talk about: In the Christmas clearance section, they had a Lindt candy bar in that Dubai Style Chocolate flavor I've been hearing so much about. I'd been meaning to try one, and seventy percent off a $5.79 candy bar sounded doable. The employee told me that the candy bar really shouldn't have been in that section because they couldn't even keep those in stock at Christmas, but she let me have it for seventy percent off anyway. Now, I thought it was fine, but I'd much rather have had a Snickers bar, or if I was feeling fancy, a handful of pistachios and a Hershey bar. What am I missing, friends? Have you tried this Dubai chocolate? Is it just the fact that it's flavored with pistachios? If there's another brand I need to try, please let me know. (At least the tea was a winner!)

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