For eleven months of the year, I'm a good boy.

I only drink two percent milk in my coffee.

But for the Holidays, I pull out all the stops.

And drink half-n-half.

I recently went to the new Safeway store on Kapahulu Avenue. It's the biggest Safeway in the state. It's also pretty expensive. But it's the only supermarket I've ever seen with tiki torches lit at night.



I shop around in Honolulu - Foodland, Times Supermarket, Star Market occasionally.

But I was jonesing for some half and half, so I ducked in at the Safeway. The parking lot is pretty busy with traffic - guys backing up their too-big trucks in tiny spaces so they don't have to back out of the space when leaving, women walking out to their cars with cell phones in hand, making that all-too-important call to...whomever.

The new Safeway has a KILLER VIEW of Diamond Head from the rooftop parking lot which I'll share soon.

I ran as fast as my little feet could carry me to the dairy section where I viewed the object of my desire:



Fat-free half-and-half.

Hmmm.

I rubbed my eyes, thinking this was a dream.

And I looked again.

And the same damn product was on the shelf.

Aaaargh.

There were no other half-and-half products to be had.

But, I just couldn't buy this stuff.

If not fat, what was the substitute?

Also, it was a full-size container, not the 'shorty' type I prefer.

Sigh. Off to Foodland 'round the corner...