Ambrosetti and Dragon Sauce

[artemisdart]

Last week after returning from our Labor Day weekend, I bought two funky groceries that I then had no time/energy to blog about.

Well, since I have little else to tell you about today, it seems that time is now!

Without further ado:

Ambrosetti!

These were delicious cookies based on cornmeal, I think, in the Italian style, in the shape of peaches pineapples, complete with green leaves on one end. They were not very sweet at all; the green part was accomplished with a thin sheen of hard icing, but even that was not very sweet. I loved these cookies and would buy them every week if they were a little less expensive. (So it's probably just as well.)

Also,

Dragon sauce!

This is a hot sauce blended with soy sauce -- hence the "Dragon" branding. The dragon itself is clearly meant to evoke the mystery (and soy-based-ness) of the Far East, although I have to say that the actual art looks vaguely Celtic / Norse.

I admit that I completely gave in to the marketing spin on this. "Oooh, it has a dragon on it! I will buy it, without any regard to whether I actually need a hot sauce that is also a soy sauce!" 

Sometimes I am too easy. Curse you, marketing geniuses!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Haha! Catherine, you slay me! As I was looking at your pictures, my first thought was, "Hmmm. I wonder if she bought these at the HT Market?" Then, I noted the image of the dragon on the Dragon Sauce and thought, "No, that is clearly a Nordic dragon." Imagine my bemused surprise to find that you had made the very same observation! Great minds do, indeed, think alike.

Darn it!

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Re: Darn it!

[catherinew.livejournal.com]

I did buy this at HT Market.

I forgot to mention that the top of the label reads "MYSTICAL Mixture of Soy and Spice."

"Mystical"?? That's promising a lot for a spicy soy sauce.

[kittykatkatja.livejournal.com]

Ambrosetti sounds like a racecar driver.