
Well, I am a sucker for Superstore. I remember when they first came into being and it was a gigantic uproar - small grocery stores would go out of business! Safeway would be run into the ground! Dogs and cats - living together! Mass hysteria! Sure, it's a gigantic store, but the things they have crammed on those shelves...it boggles the brain. My shopping trips would take two hours on average. On average. I found lutefisk crammed away between the freezer shelves somewhere between a whole frozen milkfish and sheep intestines. I found Dutch syrup waffle cookies on top of pfeffernusse. But President's Choice is a product line that stays right on top of consumer tastes. And they batted it out of the park with Diet Litchi Soda. At first, I was confused. How could they make litchis...diet? But once I cracked open a can and tasted it, I realized that they had captured a fresh, light, tropical taste of sparkling, not too sweet canned litchis (not fresh - that flavour is just too darn ephemeral). Just try it with some spicy grilled meat, chili paste and a small salad with some mango and cucumber hacked in. It's tropical summer in a can.