McCormick Oregano Leaves (.75 oz.)

Item Purchased: McCormick Oregano Leaves (.75 oz.)
Location Purchased: Jewel / 1224 S. Wabash Ave. / Chicago, IL
Price: $2.29 + tax

Review: My girlfriend is amassing quite the impressive and scattershot spice collection. Usually when we cook, we cook at her house because I don't have a working stove and there is only so much you can do with a hot plate (you can do quite a bit actually...remind me to invite you to one of my hot plate dinner parties...but for ease and convenience reasons, I prefer a stove). In the morning, when all is said and done and we are drinking coffee and getting ready to leave the house, I never want to be bothered by taking my spices with me, so I graciously give them to my girlfriend and her roommates. Even if they don't touch the plastic bottles of cumin and whatnot, I can rest easy knowing that those bottles are sitting comfortably in a cupboard instead of collecting dust in between bottles of scotch and wine.

Again, I resort to the spice candyman that is McCormick. Actually, I was going to buy a different brand today when I realized that the other brand of oregano at Jewel was McCormick's Gourmet Collection line of spices! Damn man! Eight ball in the cornered market!

Ah well, oregano has always been the most subtle of subtle spices to me. I don't really notice it much. Hell, even when I was a stupid kid in the sixth grade and my friends and I rolled an oregano joint with notebook paper, I didn't even cough when I smoked it. See? Subtle. McCormick is no different. Not that subtle isn't important. It is. If you make a pasta sauce without it, I'll notice. I'm hoping it will be as essential to the soup I make tonight as it is in sauces.

Rating: 3.25 / 5

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