Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, but this time Edna is a gingerbread mug cookie.*

This week: dark patterns in the snack aisle, the exposure triangle of cocktails, and taste testing the Animal Crossing game cartridge. 📷.

Links:

• 13th Annual Customer Choice Awards Winners
• Product Box vs. Reality, TJ's Gingerbread Edition : traderjoes
• What’s the best item you’ve ever gotten at TJs? What’s the worst? : traderjoes
• Daily Harvest | One-Step-Prep, Chef-crafted Food Built on Organic Ingredients. Delivered to You. Food that Takes Care of You.
• Southern California Gingerbread Man (Laguna Hills, CA) : traderjoes
• Gaming out Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal - Recode Media
• Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad, trust us (update) - Polygon
• Introducing the new Xbox consoles | Xbox
• Call of Duty’s next three games will hit PlayStation despite Microsoft’s Activision deal - The Verge
• Elevated Craft® – Elevated Craft
• Amazon.com: OXO SteeL Cocktail Shaker: Stainless Steel Cocktail Shaker: Home & Kitchen
• Watch How to Make a French 75 | Bon Appétit Cocktails | Bon Appétit
• Dune, The Matrix, and Succession boost US-based HBO and HBO Max subscribers to 46.8 million - The Verge
• Super Bowl 2022 won’t stream in 4K on NBC - The Verge
• Amazon.com: SIN SHINE - Compressed Air 3.0- Multi-Use Electric Air Duster for Cleaning Dust, Hairs, Crumbs, Scraps for Laptop, Computer, Replaces Compressed Air Cans (AD01-Black) : Electronics