New Click In Fair Fizz
I don’t know what the combination of water and bubbles do to make it taste/feel so good to drink, though it’s clear the sum is greater than the parts.
So much so that every year we drink over three billion litres of fizzy drinks in Australia!
A daily by-product of our unquenchable appetite for fizzy drinks is enough single-use plastic, aluminium and glass containers to stretch the 4,030 kilometers from Cape Byron on the East Coast to Steep Point, the westernmost part of WA.
The obvious solution is to make our own fizzy drinks in reusable containers – and of course there are soda-makers that do just this.
But here’s the rub – home soda-makers work on the “razor/razor blade” business model – i.e. the company makes a modest mark-up selling us the fizzy machine and then a very, very big mark-up selling us the gas refills.
We think not having to buy a new plastic bottle every time you want a fizzy drink is a great idea, but having to pay a premium to refill the gas is not so great.
Which is why we launched super affordable Fair Fizz refills for soft-drink makers in 2023.
The response has been huge and this week we’re pumped to introduce our new Click In cylinders that are compatible with snap-in soda makers such as SodaStream’s Quick Connect.
How does it work?
- Just order a Click In Fair Fizz cylinder with your regular Fair Food shop (or order a swap over for your old brand cylinder).
- When your Fair Fizz is empty, order a refill and leave out the empty cylinder for our driver to collect and we’ll swap it for a full one.
It’s circular, it’s easy, it’s FIZZY!
You can find the new Click In and original Screw In cylinders here.
Feijoa’s are in!
Three years ago I planted two feijoa trees along our front fence.
I’ve been feeding them up with my best compost and nursing them through the dry months with regular soakings.
This year they have their first harvest, there are maybe thirty fruit, many surprisingly large for such young trees.
When feijoas are ripe they fall from the tree.
I check on them daily. I find myself out in the garden staring down at a couple of large, precious dusky green fruit – gifts that grew out of nowhere.
Over the weekend my partner gives the tree a little shake and takes a couple of plump feijoas to our friend’s as a birthday present – it hurts to see them go.
What if they are forgotten in the fruitbowl, left to go soft and brown, only to be tossed uneaten into a greenwaste bin? It’s almost too much to bear.
I stop myself, reminded of the feijoa generosity I’ve received throughout my life – so many shopping bagsful dropped by, so many help-yourself baskets at front gates, so many invitations to harvest fruit laden-trees.
My lizard-brain is calmed and I remember that I planted these trees on the front fence so neighbours could pick feijoas as they passed by like I’d done from so many front yard trees in the past.
Feijoa grower Paul Haar has also been keeping a close watch on his feijoas.
Paul fell in love with this generous tree after a chance encounter working with a couple of feijoa enthusiasts in the late 60’s.
Cuttings from his friends’ plant produced large tasty fruit forming the foundation for an orchard of more than 100 trees in Archies Creek on Gunaikurnai Country.
This year despite the beautiful late autumn weather Paul reports the harvest has started very late but is now getting going with gusto.
He describes this year’s crop as “particularly plump and yummy” but is having to move quickly because his particularly picky wombats have a preference for his biggest and best fruit.
The season is always too short and if you have a hankering you can find Paul’s particularly plump and yummy feijoas here.
Have a great week
Chris
