By Al Sicherman,

If you were worried that Snapple wouldn't be able to stay atop the weird-flavor nutraceutical wave, don't give it another thought: There are three new Red Tea Snapples, all brewed with rooibos (say "roy-boss" -- or don't), an antioxidant-rich South African herb that makes caffeine-free red tea. To judge by what's said about rooibos on the Internet, Mr. Tidbit reported a couple of years ago, it probably cures every known illness and makes your feet smell like gardenias. And put a bottle of rooibos next to one of Snapple's four flavors of green tea and you have a Christmas decoration. Sort of.

But wait: Rooibos is just the "tea" part. There are three red-tea flavors: peach pomegranate (pomegranate was the hot antioxidant fruit not long ago), acai mixed berry (acai is 2006's equivalent of pomegranate), and Mandarin tangerine. (Snapple apparently didn't hear about all the antioxidants in mangosteens.)

30 munching meese

As another marker of where Western civilization may have gone off the rails, consider this note from the fancy-food-as-gift catalog Harry and David. That firm's popular Moose Munch candy-nuts-popcorn mixture is now available in 30 flavors. Yes, 30: Amaretto, berries & cream, butter pecan, candy corn, cherry in dark chocolate, cinnamon apple, cinnamon in dark chocolate, coconut, cookies & cream in dark chocolate, cranberry almond, gingerbread, macadamia nut in white chocolate, macadamia nut in milk chocolate, maple walnut, mocha, nutty banana in milk chocolate, orange, original, original with dark chocolate, original with milk chocolate, peanut butter, peppermint, piña colada, s'mores, springtime, sugar-free original, sugar-free milk chocolate, sugar-free dark chocolate, super nut and vanilla almond.

Mr. Tidbit has no idea what is in Moose Munch "springtime" flavor.