Food - Goods - Cool Items and Interesting Stuff
GOODS has two meanings. Firstly, it is our guide to innovative objects from Sydney and around the world, and secondly, GOODS can't be bad. A resource for gift buyers, home-makers, scene-stealers, trend-watchers and possibly even shoplifters, GOODS isn't about making your credit card cry, it's about setting your standards high.
Zooper Dooper popsicles
Alfred Prufrock measured out his life in coffee spoons. I measure mine in Zooper Doopers. Motivated by this long hot summer (and childhood nostalgia), I've become addicted (although at 20c a pop, a freeze-your-own-popsicle habit is hardly debilitating). But which to choose? Funny Faces are defunct.
DIY Upside Down Tomato Plant
There's nothing more timeless and/or satisfying than growing your own tomatoes (in the world of gastronomy anyway). However, unforgiving inner city backyards make growing stuff generally impossible (and who can be assed with hydroponics?). Until NOW! Armed with a spoon and some dirt, I channeled Don Burke and made myself a hanging tomato plant.
Chocogram
Nothing says, "I love you, even though you're a fatty boombatty" better than 500 million calories of saturated fat, delivered to your desk. And nothing pacifies someone you're trying to say sorry to quicker than a gob full of chocolate. In fact, it's hard to believe that any epigrams of the emotional variety took place at all before the invention of Chocograms.
DIY Champagne Jam
According to Urban Dictionary, a champagne jam is a party where you drink sh*tloads. Here's how to make a party in your mouth - and trust me, you'll eat sh*tloads. Homemade jam is the biz. Forgot your ma's birthday for the second time? Homemade jam! Accidentally broke your neighbour's foot with your skateboard? Homemade jam.
Eggling
That darn rabbit. With its sniffy nose and chocolate butt, it has become the Easter poster kid.
The there's the egg. Unassuming, oval, steady. Here is the true hero of Easter (ahem, commercial Easter), and this year its name is Eggling.
Don't eat Eggling, because it's full of dirt. Instead, gently crack open its head, dust it with a mini packet of seeds and sprinkle regularly with water.
Watermelon
Watermelons are amazing. If I didn't require protein to stay alive, I would quite happily eat nothing but watermelon, all day, everyday. They look good, taste good, and mix well with others. PLUS, with 92% water, they can cure a hangover like that.
Just the other day my flat mate, whose primary interests include the Internet and smoking, took a bite of watermelon and said out loud to no-one in particular, "nature is awesome".
Chupa Chup
The humble lollipop has come a long way. Before the Chupa Chup started throwing parties and orbiting the earth, it was just a humble pop from rural Spain. Before that, its ancestors were being suckled on the top of a Penny-farthings somewhere. And before that, they adorned the tops of pencils while the Civil War was won.
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