Did that draw your attention? In what way? never mind I may soon find out from the Feedjit widget ;) and I might not want to know anyway!
Actually it’s on a shopping list I found today at the store. Working at a supermarket you find these lists left all over the store very often. 
I must have picked up hundreds over the years, it’s always interested me to read them , just to get a glimpse into the person writing them or just curious to see what people go to the store to buy. Not to mention sometimes these lists are written on some strange things, and some very common things too, the most popular medium in the summer time in a tourist area is a paper plate. ;)
I think I may turn these lists into a semi regular series of posts if I happen to come across some interesting ones. Well this one just caught my eye being on the bright green paper firstly and then reading the two items near the middle, ’soft for kitties’ and ‘hard for kitties’. Now I have to admit I didn’t have a clue at first read what it was referring to, well you know where my mind was ;) Then as Alison says , the penny dropped and I realised they were referring to cat food. LOL still makes me laugh though, I must have a recessed Beavis and Butthead gene somewhere in my DNA ;)
I just ut it in my pocket to scan it later when I got home and then I really sat down to analyze it. Now obviously the person(s) who wrote this have very high alcohol priorities. Wine has its own section , on top by the way, and not your cheap wines either, I really doubt they found any of them at the store, but we do carry a higher selection than most of the inland stores so I guess its possible. I only buy Jacobs Creek Cabernet Sauvignon so I don’t know what other types even exist! Yes I moved up years ago from MD 20/20 and Boone’s Farm :) anyway back to the list… next after wines… Beer! yet more alcohol.. Well they are on holiday most likely and why not have a good time. Oh there are going to get something to eat though.. Mussels! Ok sounds like the makings of a nice meal.. just add some Tang and you will have… TANG? the stuff the astronauts drink/drank? well maybe they are having a healthy breakfast drink.. Or maybe its going to be used with the last item on the list, the Vodka! seems more likely to me, judging from the apparent like of alcohol evident in this list. Well I’ve already commented on the next two items, the cat food. (God I’m praying that’s what they meant anyway, canned cat food and dried) then paper bowls and plates… ok a common purchase by tourists and most people this time of year, why waste any time washing dishes when you have wine to drink! and beer and Vodka… Oh yes better get some bread too, always handy to have something to eat during your drunken revelry.. I’ll just assume the crab boil is for the mussels and its not some over the counter medical remedy! , hey you never know what happens when you drink too much in a strange place, you know? And last as I have said is Vodka. Well they wont find it sold in the supermarkets in Carolina. But I do see they have ABC by it so they are thinking to go to the ABC store anyway, still shows they’re not from Carolina as the ABC stores are closed Sunday statewide.
Wish I had scanned or kept some of those old ones I have found, there were ofte amusing notes written onth eside or phone numbers all sorts of odd things. Well i will keep an eye out now for any more of these abandoned lists and maybe turn it into a regular feature of the site, oh that sounds exciting .. sheesh :-/ Hurry up USCIS and get our visa petition approved so Alsion can save me from this madness I am falling into!!!
Tags: alcohol, Humour, shopping lists, supermarket, TANG, tourist, Wine
Oh that lIst is so funny, hopefully the cat food wasnt for them to eat ..LOL..seeing how they opted for the better quality wines mayve they couldnt afford much in the way of good dinner ingrediants !
I bet you get a lot of hits on that post Mr G . more than Mikes ”My sisters Feet ‘ title brought in ..LOL
Yeah, but it can’t top the Gay Irish Dwarfs.
That’s funny; I seldom make lists, but I also do the hard/soft thing for my cat’s food when I do.
Some of that expensive cat food smells really good and looks like it’d be good, too. I buy my cat a tin of it on special days/holidays, or when I’m cooking ME up something nice. (which means he doesn’t get it very often)
When I worked at the grocery store and was facing or stocking, I’d always find empty bottles or wrappers; people would brazenly eat or drink stuff while shopping! The Mexican items were the worst, esp. some of those weird drinks that are popular amongst the Hispanics.
Reminds me: I remember watching one of those HBO little comedy skits they had inbetween movies…it was called “Living off the Land” and it was about this guy who rode in the baggage compartment of a Greyhound bus and when it’d stop, he’d go into a grocery store with his long coat on which had everything for him to prepare a meal. He wouldn’t take anything away with him, but would eat it while pushing a shopping cart. The funniest thing was when he’d go by the floral section and get a vase and a red rose to go along with his meal.
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but I’ve heard that here in Texas it’s a felony to shoplift meat, even if it’s under fifty dollars, the cut-off for a felony charge. According to the legend, it’s something to do with cattle rustling!
I’ve got about a dozen bottles of wine I bought a couple years ago, just after I found out I had diabetes. I never have been a big drinker, but my dr. said beer was out, and the books I’ve read (as well as my own self-testing) say not to drink things like tequila and rum. Vodka doesn’t affect me too badly, though.
The trouble with my wine is that I’ve bought “good” stuff with corks in ‘em and I never can find a corkscrew when I decide I would like to have a glass of wine. Also, I’d better not drink the entire bottle, so I’d be wasting whatever I didn’t drink. Also, red is supposed to be better for diabetics than white.
When I worked at the liquor store, there was some engineer from NYC down here working and the first time he came in, he got a pint of something and asked for a set-up…cup w/ ice in it. That’s frowned upon by the TABC here, and I don’t think it’s against the law, but when he uncapped the whisky and started pouring it into the glass, I had to get him out of there very fast! THAT’S against the law here. He said they did it up in New York, and sneered at our “silly laws”. He put the lid back on the bottle, but I still had to get him to leave as it was now an “open container”, also forbidden.
The only place one can buy hard liquor here is in a licensed store, but they’re not state-owned like many states. We could own a liquor store together, but the majority owner has to live in the county…that keeps chain stores from getting into the liquor business. So many rules and regulations here on liquor, and that’s probably a good thing in most ways.
I didnt realise the USA had strict rules about the sale of Alcohol , well not until I visited there last May and Chester told me , oh much different to Cyprus , they are quite a nation of drinkers here , well I guess because they do grown and produce a lot of their own wines, but the more common drink here is brandy and Ouzo and just recently a near pure spirit called Zivania which is drank or quite often used as a rub on achin joints ! well its firewater and I personally cant stand it .
and as for buying it , oh you can find a shop open here and buy alcohol 24 hours a day , supermarkets , small kiosks , even the churches are selling their own specail wine called Commandaria which is more like a sweet sherry or port type of drink that they usually use for the communion,
After I posted that, I saw where my (grin) was done away with after my “Gay Dwarfs” comment. Was just kidding, and to be honest, it bothers me a bit to think that people are coming to my blog to find photos or the like. Yikes!
Each state’s liquor laws are different, Alison, and here in Texas, the laws vary from county-to-county. For example, the ounty just above this one, Roberts (where I grew up) is a “dry” county, no liquor sales at all.
Texas liquor stores have laws on the hours they can be open, too. They can’t open before 10 a.m. and have to close by 9 p.m. and all have to be closed on Sundays. Stores also have to be closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas as well as New Year’s Day. (AND, if Christmas falls on a Sunday, they have to close on the following Monday)
Some towns have their own ordinances regulating liquor. Bars in Amarillo can stay open until 2 a.m. and can stay open until 4 a.m. on Saturdays (used to be that way, not so sure now) and I don’t know if they’re open on Sundays. I believe beer sales are allowed after noon on Sundays. Here, bars have to close at midnight, but can stay open an extra hour on a Sat. night and are closed on Sundays. Beer sales are prohibited within the city limits on a Sunday, but there are a couple stores just outside the line that can sell beer/wine on a Sunday.
Up until a few years ago, Texas had some strict regulations on the sizes of liquor that could be sold. The little one oz. bottles (airplane size, I call ‘em) have only been sold since they recently changed the law.
Not really making a comment on the good/bad aspect, but the churches here are responsible for many of our laws regarding alcohol sales. I used to have a friend who had to jump through hoops in order to get a license for his bar. There are laws prohibiting establishments from selling liquor within a certain distance of a church or school, and when he applied for his license, the nearest church kept protesting and kept his license application in limbo for nearly half a year.
Their church is a half mile away!
Sometimes I think that if it were up to me, alcohol would be banned. I know, that sounds hypocritical, but coming from a home that suffered because of my dad’s drinking, I know how it can tear families apart. Still, alcohol provides a substantial tax base, but I’m fairly sure that the cost to society exceeds the revenue.
Americans pay more taxes, percentage-wise, on a six pack of beer than they do a diamond ring!
Plus, I know my history and understand that prohibition of anything leads to a vast underground/criminal commerce of the substance. I’ve never heard/read a good argument for laws against drug use, either. It’s just my opinion, but I believe that the US’s huge drug consumption would be lessened if “the money were taken out of the equation”. I wouldn’t want my children doing drugs, of course, but to be callously practical, I think that there would be an epidemic of overdoses at first, but in a generation the dumb ones would be culled out.
As I’ve said, though, I’m a libertarian and am against any sort of “nanny state” type laws and believe we should each bear the responsibility for our own choices and that laws prohibiting drugs/alcohol sometimes do more harm than good.
It’s certainly easy enough to see that we’re not winning this “War on Drugs” we’ve been waging for nearly a hundred years.
I was just mentioning that to Alison in a mail last night, that the churches had/have a lot to do with establishing restrictions on alcohol sales here in NC and a lot of other states. Sounds like Texas has nearly the same laws as NC in most every aspect you mentioned. I blamed it all on the Pilgrims and Puritans … LOL
I wholeheartedly agree with you about each of us bearing the responsibility for our own choices and and I do believe too that prohibiting or banning by law anything will only generate worse consequences.
As Alison said its quite a difference there in Cyprus in the sale and availability of alcohol, and I’ve heard from many of the foreign students that come to work in the store in the summer the same thing in regards to their (European) countries. Although I’m sure there are many cases of alcohol abuse wherever it is sold, but I was struck immediately when visiting there the attitudes towards alcohol are totally different , even among the younger generation. I guess them growing up around a more relaxed attitude to having a glass of wine or beer it isnt like it is here.
Oh I wish I had more time to write this morning, but work calls. Excellent post Mike, thanks for your time, I do appreciate all you do.
Oh I forget myself that any thing in the
< 'swith the exception of a few tags is stripped from a post automatically, whether its actual code or not, just a security measure and I guess I should be thankful for it. I saw the grin, even if it wasnt there. ;) never worry of me or Alison taking something the wrong way.thanks for posting!
I think you’re spot on about attitudes re: liquor, G. Even though my dad drank only to excess, I think I’ve always had a fairly healthy attitude about it, even though pop abused it (esp. after he retired…I think he felt useless then, but he started drinking too much long before he became a full-fledged drunk) I blame alcohol for many of his health problems. Then again, the blame really shouldn’t lie with the booze, but with him.
Plus, I used to think he drank because he was disappointed in me. It took me years to realize that wasn’t the case.
Still, my pop always told me not to go out drinking, sneaking around with the boys when I was a kid. He said it was there in the fridge, have at it!
I got drunk when I was about 13, took the cure, and didn’t have a drop until I went off to college five years later. I never could drink much, and that was probably the reason I started smoking pot; at least that stuff didn’t make me nauseous and later– I realize now–I used it to self-medicate, first as a crutch because I was disappointed in my own life and later because it made me feel so much better. (lowers blood sugar, and I can see now that I was suffering from diabetes long before I was diagnosed)
Plus, I’ve always been a curious sort of person, and when “the establishment” told me pot would make me go crazy and all that, I figured that (considering the source)it was a lie and had to see for myself.
When my nephews were teens, they both asked me about it (never had made any bones/never lied to anyone about my pot use) and I told them what I knew about it, the bad things, such as it lowers testosterone levels (in some cases causing–as Alison says–”man boobs” LOL ) as well as diminishing one’s “ambition” with chronic, daily & excessive use.
Since I’ve been online, I’ve researched pot and its effects and esp. drug use in the Netherlands. Pot is tolerated there but use amongst teens is significantly less than it is here in the US. Probably a lot of basic cultural reasons for that, but I figure the main one is that the Dutch teens see all the stoner tourists and figure that it’s not for them! lol
I think that’s a prime example of how tolerance of people who have different ideas/religion/background/etc. that we do can be beneficial.
Gone on way too long on this, sorry. I could wax on for several pages on this, but will spare you the torment. -grin-