Yesterday, deplete of provisions....and, after several days of avoiding 'sweets'.....I journeyed to Kroger, traveling the mile or so with a thousand other vehicles, going 'somewhere or the other'......After entering the Grocery Store and gathering some 'staples', I began to survey both the other shoppers and the contents of their wheeled baskets.......noting the correlations between the body types of the shoppers and the types of food they had gathered. Many of their 'food items' were unfamiliar to me; so, I began to chat with the other Kroger clients about their selections.......Shopper #1 was a friendly, obese woman, trolling the aisles with her obese husband and two obese children, under ten. I asked her 'what her favorite foods were'. She, rather excitedly, replied: "Dolly Parton's Chocolate Pie!.....There's nothing better......Nothing!" as she put three of them into her cart, along with several gallons of sugary soft drinks and a case of chocolate candy bars.......The woman asked me if I would like one of them, even though she had gathered all of the store's remaining stock of them......."Sure", I replied......She handed one of the pies to me, along with a big smile, thinking she had 'turned me onto' something wondrous.......I thought 'BARBIE'.....Why not?
Next Aisle: I encounter a 65 year old man, high on caffeine, and...also....very chatty. He had several pounds of Starbucks Dark Roast coffee in his cart.....nothing else!.....We discussed and compared our interest in caffeine drinks and parted.....He had taken ALL of his preferred java from the shelf.
At the Register: The gentleman, about my age, who had....only....a dozen bottles of wine and a couple of cases of beer in his buggy.....asked the cashier to get him a carton of cigs, then, paid and left......He was at his car, parked next to mine, having already opened a bottle and a pack and was drinking from the bottle while he puffed away on his Chesterfield......We chatted for a couple of minutes as he informed me that 'he was on a liquid diet'!
I had decided, yesterday, to only purchase foods that others had praised, and with which I was pretty much unfamiliar.......to challenge my own patterns of shopping and eating.......The coming week will be innovative, I think.......Is this a 'changeup' or a 'switchup'? Will this week's chow be a culinary home run? I just had a slice of Dolly's pie.....it IS delicious, by the way!!
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