{"id":165,"date":"2008-09-14T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2012-01-28T13:19:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T19:19:32","slug":"cincinnati-wrap-up-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/cincinnati-wrap-up-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Wrap UP &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good to be home but I could of done without this craptastic weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Saturday we took off for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.junglejims.com\/\">Jungle Jim&#8217;s<\/a>.\u00a0 OMG it looks like an amusement park. This is INSIDE the parking lot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_tammy\/2854300684\/\" title=\"_IGP9774 by tclarkcreations, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3191\/2854300684_86e101ed37.jpg\" alt=\"_IGP9774\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We came home with quite a haul of goodies that we couldn&#8217;t find locally.\u00a0 First there was the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mexgrocer.com\/10070.html\">tortilla warmer<\/a>\u00a0of course you can get one of these locally the major problem is that they wanted something like $15 and I found this one for just under $8.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 There are two things that we picked up that WERE available locally but have since disappeared first is the ever so famous Boat Beer as KLT likes to call it.\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakesbrewing.com\/beerProfile.php?beer_id=00000005\">Great Lakes Brewing Edmond Fitzgerald<\/a>\u00a0a lovely porter that we haven&#8217;t even found the few times we looked in Indianapolis.\u00a0 The other is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritolay.com\/our-snacks\/ruffles-reduced-fat_panel.htm\">Ruffles Reduced Fat Potato Chips<\/a>\u00a0and I am pretty sure you are thinking we are crazy but honestly they have the best taste for being a &#8220;diet&#8221; chip.\u00a0 Finding things in this massive store was a little difficult some items were with their country or origin and others with like items you know like honey was in the giant honey department and I found some in the\u00a0 Mexican area.\u00a0 The international areas were full of authentic things it was great, I wish I had a better of list of things to look for as that would of stopped some of the impulse buying.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 There was also a large department of Kitchen goods including a $70 <span id=\"btAsinTitle\">Cuisinart pop corn popper.\u00a0 Oddly placed in that area is a bio pond, sounds cooler than it actually was.\u00a0 There are 4 large round tanks of water with an incredible filtration system that house fresh fish, these fish are not fed and this is not a farm it is actually a holding tank for fish waiting to be taken to the floor and sold.\u00a0 They currently have Tilapia, Trout and Catfish for-sale in their sea food department along with LOTS of fresh icky things.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think that their booze prices were that good so we only picked up a couple bottles of wine.\u00a0 Oddly enough we found a bottle that had been delivered as a wine of the month <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.altoslashormigas.com\/vini_en.php\">Altos Los Hornigas Mabec<\/a>\u00a0and a new to us 1919 Mabec.\u00a0 There were enough wines there to keep one thoroughly confused for HOURS.\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_tammy\/2853471017\/\" title=\"_IGP9785 by tclarkcreations, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3021\/2853471017_b6e5d63754.jpg\" alt=\"_IGP9785\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We found the olive oil isle.\u00a0 OMG probably 24 feet of olive oils with 24 feet of other exotic oils and balsamic vinegars on the other side.\u00a0 We had not researched this before our trip so we had to make a gut choice and Kerry picked Greek Gourmet for about $13 for a 23 ounces.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t find any information online about it but we did find that we got a hellar deal.\u00a0 Then we wondered around and discovered the largest natural\/organic food department that I have ever seen.\u00a0 It was quite impressive. I decided to look for some <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agave_syrup\">Agave Nectar <\/a>so that I too can make great margaritas.\u00a0 Right there next to it was Pure Cane Sugar Syrup and pure Maple Syrup.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now we were ready to look at the cold items we passed up earlier yes the CHEESE, Olives and Deli area.\u00a0 First was the cheese Kerry I think died and landed in heaven.\u00a0 We picked up a few items to try and will let you know.\u00a0 They also had a fair selection of cured sausages and the such.\u00a0 We picked up <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.germandeli.com\/stdessa.html\">Debreziner<\/a> and boy do they smell. <\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_tammy\/2854306742\/\" title=\"_IGP9786 by tclarkcreations, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3163\/2854306742_5c7f04711f.jpg\" alt=\"_IGP9786\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next to the cheese is a butter display like no other. It was probably 6&#8242; long with so many kinds and brands of butter, who knew?\u00a0 Then came the funny!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There was an import type deli area not to be confused with the deli just around the corner.\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_tammy\/2854307844\/\" title=\"_IGP9788 by tclarkcreations, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3115\/2854307844_d017660bd7.jpg\" alt=\"_IGP9788\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey gave samples of some meat and cheese rolled together.\u00a0 Holly cow that was good so I order 1\/2\u00a0 a pound each while KLT isn&#8217;t looking.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeinitaly.com\/food\/Mortadella.asp\">Mordatella<\/a>\u00a0and Aussie Jack.\u00a0 Yes I know it&#8217;s bologna.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were several more things but they must of been far less exciting and that explains not being mentioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good to be home but I could of done without this craptastic weather. <\/p>\n<p> Saturday we took off for Jungle Jim&#8217;s. OMG it looks like an amusement park. This is INSIDE the parking lot. <\/p>\n<p>We came home with quite a haul of goodies that we couldn&#8217;t find locally. First there was the tortilla warmer of course you can get one of these locally the major problem is that they wanted something like $15 and I found this one for just under $8. \ud83d\ude42 There are two things that we picked up that WERE available locally but have since disappeared first is the ever so famous Boat Beer as <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/cincinnati-wrap-up-part-1\/\">Cincinnati Wrap UP &#8211; Part 1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}