Product Endorsements!
I’d like to start a new feature called “Product Endorsements!” wherein I (or any other OrdTimes writer) will ask for and give product endorsements.
Good for eating, bad for pillows.
We’d been riding too long on our old pillows, and I saw these nice and fluffy ones for cheap at Walmart. Well, you get what you pay for when it comes to pillows. They’re just dreadful, as though they are filled with cotton candy. Fluffy everywhere your head isn’t. I am a very pillow-dependent sleeper. I’m going to find the old pancake pillows and double-stack them until I can get some good pillows.
So… are any of y’all pillow officionados? I tend to like my pillows on the firm side, but really anything other than a cotton candy-ass pillow will do. So tell me what to buy.
Instead of just ragging on Walmart, though, let me share a secret with you: They make some of the best salsa out there.
Ordinarily, I go with Mrs. Renfro’s, which is available at a lot of places coast to coast and which I hardily recommend if you like spicy salsa. In particular, their Green Salsa is quite good and easy to find. Their Hot Salsa and Habanero are also good, though the latter borders on being too hot (and I like it hot). the Ghost Pepper variety is too hot by any standard.
But if you like a milder, more flavorful salsa, it doesn’t get much better than World Table, one of Walmart’s house brands. In particular, their Roasted Salsa Verde and Roasted Tomato Chipotle salsas are exceptionally good. Not just for house brand salsa, or Walmart salsa, but compared to just about any bottled salsa out there.
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Go with a latex pillow and you will never go back. I got the Z by Malouf, which I would recommend to own, but not to buy as it appears that the price has gone up 4x since I bought mine 4 years ago. The Talatech is the highest rated and has a good price. The thing I like about latex is they don’t sleep hot and they don’t go flat for a while.Report
Yeah, latex pillows are the bomb.Report
My neck used to bother me a lot when I got up. I tried every sort of pillow that I could find. Among other shortcomings, I don’t move around a lot when I sleep so I tend to mash the support out of the middle of most pillows. Over the years I have found two that worked. One was a normal sort of shaped foam but with a pocket for an air bladder in the middle — inflate the bladder to the degree of firmness that works. Eventually the bladder broke and I could never find a replacement. What I sleep on now is a pillow filled with buckwheat husks — originally a late-night TV advertisement, but I was desperate. It works great for me. Everyone who pokes at it says some variant of, “Man, this is hard.” The first night I tried it I was very tired, and got as far as “Man, this is…” before I fell asleep. They come in various sizes — I use a standard-sized one, even though it’s more expensive than the smaller ones.Report
I like a flat pillow. Maybe about a third of the height of a standard coffee cup. They don’t make those. Only fluffy pillows that fluff about and bend your neck all funny.Report
cotton candy-ass pillow
I believe it’s now required at OT to rephrase this as cotton candy ass-pillow.Report
Nicely doneReport
I’ve always found Wal Mart’s ammo effective and convenient, if not the cheapest. 🙂Report
Federal ammo has had a bad run lately. The lead has been sticking to the riflings in many cases. Winchester or CCI has been much cleaner.Report
I recently got the king-size version of this pillow. I love it! It has the drawback of having pokey bit that sometimes work their way to where they can stick me, but unlike a real down pillow, you can just fluff the pillow and it goes away. I’m confused what the pokey things are, since it’s “down-alternative”; maybe it’s feathers that don’t count as down? Whatever, it makes it so I usually don’t get headaches.Report
Bloomingdale’s PrimaLoft (down alternative). Not cheap.Report
I’ve gotten hooked on down pillows. My apartment looks like a chicken coop with all the feathers floating around, and you have to replace them every couple of years, but I’d buy a new pillow every night if that’s what it took to help me sleep.Report
I really like The Company Store’s feather pillows.
I have a lot of neck problems, and sleep on my side; their firm feather pillows have helped me tremendously.Report
I sleep on my side and have found a memory foam with neck support to be the best for me.
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I prefer the fresh salsa made by our local chain grocer (Stop & Shop, AKA Giant further south). It’s the kind that only lasts a few days because it is the real deal… chunks of veggies, good hit of acid, nice heat (if Zazzy doesn’t insist on the mild, which she almost always does), no soupiness.
Renfros is good, too. If Walmart’s is similar, I’ll check it out.
While I’m still terrified of Walmart, I will say I’ve been pretty impressed with their grocery selection. Some of the produce is pretty superior to the S&S, believe it or not.Report
+1 on “local grocer’s fresh salsa”.
For simple applications where the salsa is supposed to stand out and be the star, the simpler the better. In, say, a seven-layer-dip, I can see that a more processed alternative could hold up better (fresh tomatoes will weep if left standing in a way that cooked tomatoes won’t, forex).
I haven’t found a processed salsa that stands above the crowd – in fact, if I was being uncharitable, I’d say that “package to stand out, season to blend in” is a very common business model.Report