do not want.

so, on a jaunt last week through a local supermarket's "organic and natural" aisle, i found this, which looked rather fascinating. i have, in my time, developed a taste for the more elaborate asian renditions of ramen (which are nothing much like your 10 for $1 Top Ramen specials). so i purchased it.

i have just dumped half of it in the trash. you will notice a reference on that webpage to "delicious Pad Thai" sauce. i did not notice any pad thai sauce. what the package did contain was soy sauce. acidic soy sauce, which is apparently meant to evoke "lime and tamarind" (as it says on the packaging) although they're being smart and saving money, because probably most of the people who patronize the supermarkets in this area wouldn't know what a tamarind was if it came home and announced it had gotten their daughter pregnant.

at least it was on sale.