Very small pasta We all know the tragedy of classic Italian pasta shapes -- penne, bowties, fusilli (twists) and wheels -- that are just too big for American children to enjoy without unspeakable anguish. Pastamaker Barilla is now prepared to end that horror by providing miniature versions of those four pasta shapes.

According to the back of the box, "Barilla Piccolini, new miniature classic Italian pasta shapes, make it easy to create a meal your entire family will enjoy." What a relief! And the extra cost is hardly worth mentioning. At one online supermarket, where 16-ounce boxes of those uncomfortably large regular Barilla pastas are $1.25, 16-ounce boxes of the four kinds of Barilla mini-pastas are $1.79 -- 43 percent more per ounce.

Very rounded chocolate Mr. Tidbit has previously attempted to foreswear announcing elements of the continuing flood of new products from Hershey -- there seems to be a new flavor of Hershey Kisses or a different kind of somewhat upscale Hershey chocolate bar almost every week. (Truth-in-something declaration: The son of the sister of one of Mr. Tidbit's ex-wives works for Hershey.)

But Mr. Tidbit has to mention Bliss, the bags of smallish (about a quarter-ounce each) foil-wrapped squares in several kinds -- dark, milk with raspberry center, etc. The top of each square is slightly dome-shaped, which makes the piece fit the roof of your -- or anyone else's -- mouth, where it melts more quickly than a flat piece would. That's not huge, but it's pretty good. Dove's similarly packaged pieces aren't nearly as domed.

Very natural lemonade You can be forgiven if when you saw Tropicana's new "Coastal Groves 100% natural lemonade," you thought that, like the "100%" that one finds on the front label of many juice products, the "100%" here was the amount of juice in the three varieties (original, raspberry and peach) of natural lemonade. No; it's how entirely natural they are (there are no artificial preservatives, etc.). They contain 10 to 16 percent juice, maybe a tad less than homemade lemonade.

AL SICHERMAN