Die Qual der Wahl

EA sent me an email telling me that The Sims 2 IKEA Home Accessories will be available soon.

So I had a look at the website, and it told me that if I pre-ordered with participating online retailers, I'd get some bonus items.

The problem being that the bonus items depended on who I pre-ordered with! Hm, decisions, decisions.

In the end I went with weltbild.de, partly because they had an office chair very similar to the one I have at home, and partly because they promised free shipping if you have the items sent to one of their shops.

In the end, it turned out that the game is not eligible for this (though it didn't tell me why not), but I ended up buying with them anyway. And with Amazon.de, the other main possibility (besides the EA shop itself), I would have had to pay shipping, too, since the order would have been under €20. Ah well.

Brand name biscuits cost more, aka You get what you pay for

When I went looking for chocolate sandwich biscuits (Prinzen-Rolle), I saw that the store-brand version was larger and cost less.

The "cost per kg" in the small print on the label helpfully told me that the store-brand biscuits cost pretty much exactly half of what the Real Thing cost. So I thought I'd try them.

Store-brand chocolate sandwich biscuits tend to have more sugar in them than I like, but the ingredient lists on the two products seemed similar enough so I thought I'd give them a try; the Prinzen-Rolle would, after all, still be there in case the store-brand ones turned out to be not that great.

Well, a couple of biscuits later, I think I should have gone with the Prinzen-Rolle.

The filling hasn't got appreciably more sugar than the Prinzen-Rolle, so that's not the problem—but the biscuits just taste, somehow, "flat". Uninteresting. Crunchy cardboard. And I also remember the chocolate filling in the Prinzen-Rolle as being richer somehow.

Ah well.