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a small tantrum about obscure and limited edition snacks, beverages and fast food from around the world that I want but cannot have

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beet soup transubstantiation and the waterslide multiverse

unsnackable vol. 60

Welcome to unsnackable. This free newsletter is a small tantrum about international snacks, beverages and fast food that I want but cannot have with occasional diatribes about other snacks that I can’t get off my mind. I appreciate everyone who reads, shares, and subscribes to this newsletter. It is ad-free because of the support of readers like you. If you would like to support unsnackable with a paid subscription for $5/month or $50/year, please click below. Upgrade to paid One of the weirdest milestones of adulthood is when you realize that you have begun accumulating "last" experiences more often than new ones. It is an unsettling feeling that can punt you into an emotional tailspin. Disorienting as that may be, it takes a minute to grasp that there are equal opportunities for it to

Malaysia

Mongolia

Lithuania

Folu

Jul 04 2022

6 mins read

scrub cakes and seasonal beverage denial

unsnackable vol. 59

Last week, as the clock inched towards 1 AM on Monday night I found myself at my desk in the dark, hunched over the glowing screen of my laptop. There were just a few minutes left in the abomination that Sephora calls a seasonal sale, but I had spent days adding and subtracting items from my cart without pressing "buy." I'm not above it, despite desperately wishing to be. The Julia Fox of it all. Striving so hard for a ~big look~ that you're forced to discard refinement. Perfection is boring, but there's always time for a q-tip dipped in micellar water (or my favorite, Son & Park Beauty Water). That's why it's been an active process, disengaging from the swatch-driven beautytok dopamine loop. It's in my nature to be amused. Finding novelty, categorizing it until I find the moment when

Nigeria

Sweden

Malaysia

Folu

Apr 22 2022

5 mins read

anti-crunch bias and bug repellent tipples

unsnackable vol. 58

I wanted my last purchase of 2021 to be a good omen for the upcoming year. Maybe that was asking too much. I try my damndest to avoid the consumerist trap of thinking a purchase will change my life. Still, I am merely human, and I had become radicalized by the deeply charming act of sipping pure caffeine from tiny cups when we were in Portugal. So, before settling on a machine, I fell into the requisite spiral of research, even lurked in a Nespresso-themed discord server. Visions of a life tinged with energy somewhere between The Talented Mr. Ripley and a Korean Home Cafe insta account crept into my head. The machine was supposed to arrive on New Year's eve, but all I received was a phantom shipment delivered notification. I figured the parcel would show up eventually and gave it a few day

Ghana

Mallorca

Morocco

Folu

Mar 28 2022

5 mins read