Tuesday 12 September 2023

It's Been A While - Collected Lists


Well, it's been a long while, but I still pick up the occasional list and stuff it in one of the pockets of my backpack that lives with me while I'm out. Once in a blue moon I realise there's a lot of random shit sitting at the bottom of each and every pocket in that backpack - and that's 7 pockets, including the pockets-inside-pockets. So I'll clean it out, and among the discarded wrappers that I refuse to leave for others to clean up, bus tickets, face masks and odd tissues and assorted detritus, there'll be a few shopping list that I cannot help but collect.

So let's go through a few of these and see what gems we can discover, shall we? For no other reason than - it might be fun.




Someone's making some healthy food here. Lots of veggies, including LETTUE, AVOS, and CALETTTES x 1PK, but I'm personally interested in the crossed-out CRISES, the two packs of BACON and the £80 CASHBACK/VOUCHERS - is it cashback or is it vouchers?



More healthy stuff here, including those Benecol drinks that are supposed to lower your cholesterol, chia seed, spinach (check it's not mushed!) and Kefir, but I'm curious about CLIVE MUSHROOM PIE X2, CHARLIE PAD THAI, and most of all BBI (or is it BB comma? Who knows? )




Pretty standard stuff here, but what is BOOTS-A? Also, what are Fulfil Bars?




Aha, we're having a slap-up Indian feast here. Chicken Reshmi Makhani is exquisite. Interesting spelling of poppdums, though. I think we're missing a syllable. And who knows what the numbers are about.





Prawns, squid, green veg, even Brazils are straightforward. I have no idea what twist rolls are, though I'd love to find out, but the intriguing entry here is at the top - I think they might be referring to Hot Cross Buns, but if you didn't know that they were using a plus sign to indicate the word Cross, you'd be forgiven for looking at this and thinking Hot + Bans was what they are after.




 Again, another fairly straightforward one, save for the puzzling 'Weegy Chews'.