{"id":590,"date":"2005-09-12T20:14:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T20:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=590"},"modified":"2005-09-12T20:14:48","modified_gmt":"2005-09-12T20:14:48","slug":"extraordinary-ordinary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"extraordinary ordinary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love small discoveries and finding the hidden treasures among the mundane. I also have quite a sweet tooth. You can imagine, then, how intrigued I was when I read on <a href=\"http:\/\/tastetheworld.typepad.com\/taste_the_world\/2005\/08\/pink_frosted_su.html\">Taste the World<\/a> (a foodblog) about how great the pink frosted cookies at Ralph&#8217;s supermarket are. Supermarket cookies? I&#8217;m not a total food snob, but I do have SOME powers of reasoning, and I have found that supermarket pastries are usually pretty lame (and they probably singlehandedly keep the shortening industry in business). Well, next week I am moving to the land-of-no-Ralph&#8217;s, so today I remembered to look in the bakery section at Ralph&#8217;s for those cookies. There they were!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/ralph cookies.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ralph cookies.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/ralph cookies-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center> The sisters at Taste the World are spot on. These cookies are &#8220;deliciously soft&#8221; as advertised, and they are tasty! Super delicious and beautiful! I don&#8217;t know how to explain it, but there is something very satisfying about them.<br \/>\nAnother highlight of my grocery store outing? The Halloween candy is out!<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/halloween candy.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"halloween candy.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/halloween candy-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love small discoveries and finding the hidden treasures among the mundane. I also have quite a sweet tooth. You can imagine, then, how intrigued I was when I read on Taste the World (a foodblog) about how great the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=590\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}