Saturday errand yields 3×3 + IWUS mash-up
A typical Saturday morning often includes a quick trip across the border to Lidl, the discount grocery store. We originally began shopping there simply for their cut-rate diapers, but soon discovered that it was worth picking up a few other things as long as we were there. In the picture above, my lovely bride makes the apparently highly exciting discovery that they have liverwurst there.
I will have no truck with liverwurst.
One aisle is given over to the kind of thing which comes in a box with a cathode ray tube-shaped logo and some variation on the “As Seen On TV!” sales pitch. Even though Adam is WAY into the Play-Doh which Santa or some other interloper gave him at Christmas, we were somehow able to resist this:
The bresaola, prosciutto, salame, gorgonzola and mascarpone, capers, olives, wild mushrooms, can all make you forget that this is a fairly shoddy discount shop, a poor Italian version of Trader Joe’s, but once you enter the dreaded cereal aisle the cut-ratedness comes rushing back in an alarming flush:
In case you haven’t been sleeping well lately, might I suggest trying a change in your head and neck support selection?
In case you missed that figure, this cereal features 40% nougat. FORTY PERCENT NOUGAT. That would be 300 grams of nougat per box. Just FYI.
And in case you have any misgivings about my use of the word ‘dreaded’ to describe a cereal aisle, here are some details culled from the picture above:
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I have to go lie down now.
“Nougat Pillows” sounds so impossibly dirty to me.
Comment by Jane — Saturday 12 May 07 @ 23.30 MDT+2.00
Holy. The mouseovers are too funny, you at your best.
Comment by jdog — Sunday 13 May 07 @ 06.35 MDT+2.00
Choose your play-clay dentist carefully. I’d happily go to Le Gentile Dentiste, but I wouldn’t turn my back on Dr. Wacketzahn for one second.
Comment by Elsa — Monday 14 May 07 @ 00.46 MDT+2.00
Wait, wait. You will have no truck with liverwurst? This from a haggis lover?
Comment by jdog — Monday 14 May 07 @ 11.21 MDT+2.00
I like the haggis in theory rather than in actual practice.
Comment by sgazzetti — Monday 14 May 07 @ 22.36 MDT+2.00
Excellent IWUS posts. I hadn’t seen any of those before. Very well titled.
Comment by Erik R. — Tuesday 15 May 07 @ 14.55 MDT+2.00
My stomach hurts just thinking about all that pillowy nougat!
Comment by victoria winters — Wednesday 16 May 07 @ 22.17 MDT+2.00
The stuff of nighmares. After eating way, WAY too much nougat. Eugh.
Comment by gaoo — Tuesday 22 May 07 @ 00.40 MDT+2.00