Monday 1 June 2009

Eggs and Snack-A-Jacks

Every slimmer knows the immediate allure of the Snack-A-Jack rice crackers that are like fat free(ish) crisps, but nowhere near as good. I can only hope that the person responsible for this particular piece of randomisation is tucking heartily into a bag of caramel flavoured ones instead of the promised courgette frittata that they could have made with James Potter's (Yorkshire) free range eggs. I can only hope that with their last two quid, they took full advantage of the multibuy option, thereby saving forty pence (almost a whole bag).

Shopping List (Huge)

An Inland Revenue Tax Credits Office envelope was used to create this masterpiece. Biggest shopping list EVER! The envelope is so large it doesn't even properly fit on my A4 scanner!!

Immediately of note:

  • Dual shop list - Featuring two lists for the price of one with certain items highlighted at each shop. Savings aplenty by buying cold meats and fruit and veg at Aldi, and sticking with the better items like Sainsbury's coffee - anyone who has drunk Aldi's "Alcafe" will sympathise with this reasoning.
  • Random layout - The seemingly random placement of items like "Pasta" and the "x2" above pesto for no reason. Also the use of the hyphens seems a bit random. Note that the Aldi list has only one hyphen, but the Sainsbury's bit is hyphenated to separate items in the list on the same line, or indeed just to start a new line.
  • Our milk - Please be more specific or you'll just end up with a six pinter of semi-skimmed.
  • Bana - Obviously as you were writing banana, you were overcome with the desire to buy "peppers x1" and couldn't wait to write it down.
  • Peppers x1 - That's singular. Pepper, please stipulate red or green, or even yellow or orange if you're feeling a bit way out.
  • Sandwich meat - I love the use of the term "couple of hams etc" for no specific reason than it works brilliantly, especially the "etc" caveat at the end, which covers chicken, salami, beef, even turkey ham if you so wish.
  • - (Breaded fish) - The only hyphenated item on the Aldi list and the only item that appears in parentheses. I just find that a bit weird.

Shopping List (Susan's Lunch)

Strangely, I'm more interested in shopping lists now than I am in snapping pictures of randomly shopped items in the supermarket. All these lists are found in supermarket car parks or in supermarket shopping trolleys or baskets.

Immediately of interest:

  • Susan's lunch - I take it that the items on the list don't actually constitute the global term "Susan's lunch" and that the shopper must be very familiar with Susan's lunch so as to not have to actually itemise the required components.
  • I love the correct use of the apostrophe in "Susan's". Good grammar throughout with good capitalisation.
  • Gum - Chewing gum? Bubble gum? Spearmint? Peppermint? Too vague for my liking. Please be more specific. I hate not knowing what was required.
  • Item 4 - Ham Biscuit box - Can't decide if this is Ham and separate item Biscuit box or whether I am misinterpreting the word Ham!?!?! Judging by the excellent use of grammar, you'll notice the capitalisation indicates two separate items.... All that remains is whether you wanted sweet biscuits or savoury biscuits for a cheese board.
  • Cakes - Please be more specific!!
  • Turkey crown + gammon - What a treat. Get some pineapple while you're there!!