‘I’m talking about this powdered high-fiber drink that Nestle has come out with…’
THIS is not a paid advertisement. But I will talk about a product out in the market that has taken me by storm (can one say that?) and is now always “top 1” on my list when I pass by a supermarket.
In fact, many times the only reason why I pass by a supermarket is because I’m checking if they have new stocks of this product.
I’m talking about this powdered high-fiber drink that Nestle has come out with — Nestea Cleanse, a powdered mix that I just have to make into a drink and take at least once a day, usually in the early evening but always before I turn in for bed.
I need not say what it makes me do as soon as I get up in the morning. Not that I’m constipated or anything — going to the bathroom has never been a problem for me — but this drink makes the exercise even more, uhm, productive. Ha-ha-ha.
The funny thing is it contains cucumber which you could taste and smell in the drink. And since I was a child, I’ve never liked cucumber. When I see one in a burger, I take it out. I take cucumber out of my salads. But in this drink, I can take it. Though in part to mask the taste and smell but mainly to give me a daily dose of Vitamin C, I dunk a fizzy Berocca tablet into my glass of Nestea Cleanse for good measure.
Imagine how extra good for my body that drink now becomes!
The product comes in a box of ten sachets, which sell individually for about P15.20. I noticed that the first time I picked up this product from a branch of the Marketplace chain of supermarkets a sachet cost a little below P14. I guess the law of supply and demand is at work here!
And at work the law is! You see, of all the Nestea products — they have a lot of powdered tea drinks of various flavors being sold in sachets — this is the only one that goes “out of stock” from supermarket shelves. A few days ago, I couldn’t find any in two Robinsons supermarkets in Tacloban (sold out, I was told). There was none in the two supermarkets I checked up on in Cebu City. At the Landmark BGC, at Marketplace Central Square any of the supermarkets of the Venice Strand Mall in McKinley Hill, they were out of stock too.
In fact, two friends from GenSan (Franciz Allen and wife Stephanie Palacios) who were here in Manila for business even went looking for six boxes to take home — and had to fly home empty-handed.
By sheer luck I passed by Marketplace at Forbestown yesterday — and they had 13 boxes plus two sachets left — as apparently some consumers buy per piece. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Thirteen boxes!
So I did what a normal consumer does: I bought all the boxes I could grab hold of. All 13 of them. Guaranteeing me 130 days of supply of this drink. My post-prandial drink of choice.
Yes, I am not embarrassed to say I bought them all.
Shinimot, as one would perhaps say these days, yes?
