Trader Joe's Roasted Seaweed

On the second Saturday of June 2010, seaweed packages appeared on Snack Avenue at a Trader Joe's grocer in Arcadia (the Rosemead Boulevard location.)

It was the second time I'd spotted the product. The first sighting was in January, when I was living in a master bedroom owned by a 5-person family. The family rented out their extra rooms, and during my two-week stay I discovered the open-face shopping centers across the street. The following afternoons, I would walk a mile from my home-stay to reach the Trader Joe's on Rosemead because I liked to exercise
and because I had added a new playlist to my portable mp3 player.

I like healthy snacks.

In January, I examined the package. The seaweed was padded with sesame oil and extra salt. A single serving listed 60 calories, 4 grams of fat and 100 milligrams of sodium.

Glistening.

In June, I didn't mind, and paid ninety-nine cents.

The container was three-dimensional. I properly used its serrated-teeth to get beneath the aluminum wrapper. The Opening showed a hard plastic mold, and size 3-by-2 inch rectangles of seaweed, in a row.

Trader Joe's Roasted Seaweed was beside a product called Sesame Crepes, which I did not care for.

On the third Saturday of June, I went back to Rosemead Boulevard, and saw extra sesame crepes, and their advertisement overlapping most of a different white price sign.

I should have purchased two.