Posted on 04/07/2021 7:40:19 AM PDT by mylife
It was the best of sale sections, it was the worst of sale sections. If you need a vat of baked beans or an avocado scented candle, you're in luck.
Most discount chains and big box stores have their respective stans; we all know about the Target enthusiasts who call it “tar-zhay” and the Kirkland heads who are on top of all of the fresh Costco drops. But you know what chain we should talk about more? Cost Plus World Market.
Tucked away at the far end of your local mall, overflowing with wicker baskets and imported candy, CPWM is a bustling destination for rug-seeking college students and eccentric tchotchke aunties alike, and wandering its linoleum-floored halls is like perusing an international bazaar—if that bazaar had fluorescent overhead lighting and sold tinned meats of mysterious origin alongside mass-produced Persian rugs. Its offerings are a truly confounding intersection of the highly practical with the bafflingly impractical; for every mid-century coffee table, there is an upsetting banana wine bottle stopper. (There are, of course, some problematically colonialist elements about the store concept, but when it comes down to it, it is above all just a discount store with a mix of woven raffia wall decor, cat anus magnets, and Calamansi-Ade.)
Cost Plus World Market has actually been around since the 50s, when a “San Francisco businessman” started the brand as an import business specializing in wicker. “Today we continue to search the world for unique artisan goods and handicrafts, international food favorites and design inspiration for our furniture and home décor,” reads the company bio. The chain is closing 200 stores over the next two years, which is a bummer because it’s both a fantastic place to buy novelty snacks and indisputably one of the best places to shop while stoned.
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Is this where my brother gets those 33c Indian dill pickles?
Nothing wrong with pork rinds… classic snack. However, “pork clouds” makes us think more of an odorous cumulus of pig farm scent than a crispy treat. Despite the Dr. Bronner’s-esque approach to branding here, the reviews are rather grimace-y, with a sub-three-star rating accumulated from 53 reviews. “The olive oil disagrees with the rinds in the most horrible way,” writes one buyer. “Stop stocking this.” “Hideous flavor. Tastes rancid,” added another. And several shoppers offered the same one-word review: “Horrible.” Pork Clouds Rosemary And Sea Salt Kettle Cooked Pork Rinds, $2.99 $1.79 at Cost Plus World Market
Mmmmm... Candlemole...
Plenty of tea!
Tea, fans, wicker furniture, OMG!
We give Scandinavians credit for so much, because they have mastered some really lovely things—the hygge lifestyle, hot tubbing in the snow, the most terrifying black-metal bands, getting drunk in their underwear, their successful implementation of democratic socialism. But what we haven’t really found a way to embrace stateside is their obsession with salted licorice coated in ammonium chloride. To quote an old VICE article on the matter, written by a Swede who is a fan himself: “One of the most popular types of candy is salmiak, licorice flavored with ammonium chloride—a salty chemical compound resulting from the reaction between hydrochloric acid and ammonia. The salt is mixed with sugar, starch, wheat flour, and extracts from dried licorice root, and then heated to reach the desired consistency. It has anti-inflammatory and laxative properties. Overconsumption will not only make you shit yourself, but also raise your blood pressure, disturb your sodium balance, and cause edema.” It’s a truly demented form of candy that can also be really addictive once you lean into the masochism of it. Plus, it’s goth. Gustaf's Double Salted Dutch Licorice, $1.39 at Cost Plus World Market
I thought World Market was part of Pier One.
And I noticed recently that the one I went to on rare occasion had vacated.
apparently they are closing.
They have potato sticks. When I was a kid we used to get “O&C” potato sticks made by Durkee foods. They are long gone, but Cost Plus has “Utz” brand which as best I can remember are the same.
Hmmmm.. this avocado smells fishy..
dollar general has the large bag of potato sticks 99c they are excellent and made in USA
Apparently they haven’t been in a 99c Only Store.
Sloppy Joes are food for small children. If you are a man over the age of 22, it’s time to graduate to another sandwich. If the fact that the number-one maker of designated Sloppy Joe sauce is called MANWICH isn’t evidence that the patriarchy is a joke, what is? We do not need to be gendering our sandwiches. This is one step above buying those Big Az Cheeseburgers at convenience stores. Sloppy Joe apologists, please stay out of my DMs. This is simply the truth. No disrespect to the Braswell family or the hardworking burger-makers of Big Az. Braswell's Sloppy Joe Slow Cooker Cooking Sauce, $8.99 at Cost Plus World Market seriously? $8.99?
I think braswell is screwing us! Slow and Fast!
>>Sloppy Joes are food for small children. If you are a man over the age of 22, it’s time to graduate to another sandwich
Werent’ they created at a bar in Florida frequented by heavy drinker Ernest Hemmingway?
No idea but hemingway was a nut
I’ll have a cubano please...
I could see Hemingway and William s boroughs eating sloppy joes together... a messy naked lunch..
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