Excessive Playgrounder
Dan Benjamin started this new website. It is a good concept and I like the style, but the content is disappointing. I’m not sure who the target audience is—it might be roughly the same as that of Cookie magazine.
Cases in point: Hand-crank locomotive for $4,100. Anonymous Nakashima-inspired chair for $550. I love my son and would like him to have fun and have a good place to sit, but I’m never paying those prices. The fact that Benjamin sought advice from the founder of Uncrate probably contributed to this.
Oversalted Organic Cereal
I bought a box of Cascadian Farm’s “Purely O’s” yesterday at Sunflower Farmers Market to start giving to Xander. (Cacadian Farm is General Mills’ organic brand.) When I tasted one that Xander dropped on the floor, I immediately tasted the bitter saltiness. It turns out, this organic version of Cheerios contains almost 25% more sodium than the regular bee-branded Cheerios—250mg per 30g as opposed to 204mg. This is accounting for the difference in the two brands’ serving sizes.
Right now the comment submission on Cascadian Farm’s website is not working (maybe it’s never working?). I’m not about to stay on the phone for hours to complain, so there will be a snail mail letter headed to Cascadian Farm.
