I went to Asda today. The checkout lady kept asking me odd questions about the mangos I was buying. Do you know that feeling when you think that someone might be taking the p**s because they can't really be that thick? I've had more intelligent interaction with the self-service machine It's a particularly bad Asda to be fair. It makes paying £50 to park at Morrison's seem like a good deal. You can get lots of fresh food cheaply there though as the locals seem to be sceptical of anything foreign.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I had that sort of conversation once when I bought a big root of ginger for curries. Cashier wanted to know how to use it cos she found the powdered version expensive.
Years before the conversation was the other way when I asked an Indian cashier where I could buy black-eyed peas to make a curry and she hadn't a clue cos she'd been adopted and only ate Belgian food.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Hubby went into Somerfield ( back in the day ) and asked " Can you tell me where I'd find Basil?" "There's nobody called Basil works here" was the answer, to which he replied " I don't suppose Papaya works here either?" " erm .... No"
I remember trying to buy fairy cake cases once, and wondering why they weren't in the baking section. They were in the stationery bit. Well, they're paper, arent they?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A young checkout chappie once asked me 'What are these?' pointing to the bag of peas in their pods ... I told him they were peas. He looked at me and accused me of trying to kid him because 'he knew 'peas are round'.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Some supermarkets here and in Belgium have cash tills that weigh loose veggies. Can't tell you how often I've had to tell young new staff about parsnips, ginger roots, "odd" cabbages, Romanesco....
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Our tills at Waitrose have beetroot classed as a salad, not as a root vegetable and fennel used to be classed as a root vegetable, even though it isn't.
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Years before the conversation was the other way when I asked an Indian cashier where I could buy black-eyed peas to make a curry and she hadn't a clue cos she'd been adopted and only ate Belgian food.
Well, they're paper, arent they?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.