Soba second thought

[bunsen_h]

A little while ago, I posted about my experience with President's Choice soba noodles, which seemed to be of inferior quality and had wheat flour listed first in its ingredients, ahead of buckwheat.

Yesterday evening, we stopped at the T&T supermarket to stock up on more genuine soba noodles.  We were surprised to discover that all of the soba noodles on sale seemed to have wheat flour listed first.  We eventually bought packages of noodles that at least didn't have other things listed ahead of buckwheat, such as tapioca starch, and had a darker colour.
 

Comments

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Isn't T&T now owned by Loblaws?

I'd be interested in knowing how the soba noodles you bought turned out.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I believe that T&T is owned by / attached to Loblaws, yes. And I just checked the package that we bought; it's a product of Canada. I don't know about the ones we passed up.

I'll follow up with a report after we've tried these ones.

[henrytroup.livejournal.com]

I work near T&T. it is quite un-Loblified, but interestingly enough, T&T branded items are showing up in Loblaw/Independent Grocer stores. Loblaw gift cards are neither accepted nor sold at T&T, for example.