Food box oddities

[kengr]

Every so often, something strange shows up in the food boxes. This time we have two candidates.

First is tomato paste. What, you say, that's not odd. Well, cans of tomato paste aren't odd. But *tubes* of it? Yep, I got two tubes (as in toothpaste tubes, right down to the screw cap) of tomato paste.

Second is red scallions. I hadn't even known they were a thing, but here they are. Some nice sized scallions, but this lovely purple were regular scallions are white. Did a web search and they are supposed to be "sweeter" than regular scallions.

Guess they go into the tuna salad... :-)

Comments

[conuly]

Tubes are less likely to develop mold before you use them all up - less exposure to oxygen, plus you're not scooping the spoon into the paste and introducing contaminants.

[siliconshaman]

Huh.. that's strange. Tubes of tomato paste are the norm here, (UK) and cans are weird... I wonder why?