don’t you love going to the supermarket? i do! don’t you wait patiently every monday morning while the new woolworths catalog downloads, all 3.1mb of it, so you can see what’s on special this week? i, um, do.
it’s just, my way of keeping the junk food beast in check is to only buy things like chips or chocolate biscuits or ice cream when they’re on special.
ok, plus, i’m just sad that way.
monday night, almost 8.30, i walked to the supermarket after putting the kid to bed. we needed milk. it was drizzling a little and the sidewalk was mostly clear except for those people outside the thai restaurant and the kebab shop. the supermarket aisles were easy.
this is what was on special, that i bought:
– two bottles of fresh peach fragrance dishwashing detergent
– a bag of frozen baby peas
– a toothbrush
– an avocado
this is what was on special, that i didn’t buy, although i really wanted to:
– english lamb and mint flavoured potato chips
(i think they’re a special release for the commonwealth games. there was also australian sausage sizzle and canadian bacon and cheese, but, hmm, no representatives from all those other countries with predominantly black or brown or yellow people.)
– oreo wafer sticks
(chocolate wafers filled with that pigfat stuff, covered in chocolate. i almost got them, until i read the ingredients list and discovered the primary ingredient was vegetable oil. maybe i should have got them anyway; i mean, what a testament to alchemy!)
then there was this:
what happens when a 23-year old marketing graduate gets together with a brand management guru with 20 years experience is tampons in a little pink stripey tin. apparently they are redefining tampons as “a premium fashion accessory” and “a gorgeous indulgence”.
they weren’t on special, but i bought them anyway. clearly i need to do the grocery shopping in the daytime, with the increasingly grumbly kid in the unwieldy stroller, bumper to bumper with all those other urban warriors. clearly.
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the tins for those moxie tampons are cute! thats the reason i’d buy them. funny, when i clicked on the link and looked at their registration survey (damn survey design electives i did at uni) i see that food or beverages are not listed as one of things their customers would like (out of 4)!
I’ve tried the roast lamb and mint chips – not bad but mostly minty.
Those tampon tins are kinda scary
Roast lamb and mint-flavoured potato chips??!!??!!
I know many men who would be made very happy by that combination…
i did give in to the chip after all. i was somewhat happy with the combination. i agree with you, sue; there was an impressive puff of lamby aroma when the bag was opened, but not quite enough lamb flavour in the eating. once i started though, i could not stop.
Hi Bowb – just wanted to say your site is great, I especially love your drawings (oh and this cute tins too – they are a bit like Tocca in the sanitary world? 🙂 ) Keep up the good work.
I see I’m not the only one who had this reaction: lamb and mint flavoured potato chips?!?!?!
I could not not buy those. They will never be offered here, though.
I can’t believe you mentioned the — gasp — Woolworths catalogue. Wasn’t there some sort of pact?
keiko: thank you. please come again. 🙂 i never thought of the tins as tocca… but now that you mention it… i like them even more!
I: do you mean, you *would not* buy those? is it because of the lamb? it is only a faint, inoffensive hint. not a patch on those incredible wasabi and soy or lime and black pepper kettle chips though. oh how i want some.
simon! yer online *and* reading blogs! are you back in sydney? weren’t we meant to do like, lunch or something? BANG FOR YOUR BUCK! SQUALOR FOR YOUR DOLLAR!
No, I *could not not buy those.* I.e., I would *have* to buy them. I lllllove lllllamb.
ah. i *know*; who doesn’t love lamb? 🙂 i shall try to eat a bag on your behalf, but the last time i went trawling the chip aisle, they were all sold out!
Apparently quite a lot of people don’t love lamb. My sister-in-law, for instance. She says she doesn’t like the “spicy taste.” And I’m like, HELLO? that’s why it’s so delicious. She wants it to taste exactly like beef, which I find totally uninteresting. But whatever. She has other problems.
And a coworker of mine has never so much as tried lamb. She’s from L.A., which I thought was supposed to be, you know, a city. With culture in it. Apparently not.
maybe your SIL doesn’t like the taste of the *spices* that the lamb is cooked in. eh. my grandmother doesn’t like lamb either. or beef. she says it’s too “beefy”. she wants them to taste exactly like chicken.