do you ever find left over notes in shopping torlleys or elsewhere? i

I have no lists. But I do have a story.

Once, back home, I dropped into a supermarket with a friend. We separated, did our shopping. I saw him near the cash register, peered in his basket, and it was full of rubbish, white bread, tinned scariness, etc, etc, when he's very brown rice and miso, generally.

I said, "God, you eat crap!". And looked up to find it was an old man, just wearing the same sort of parka as my friend (but presumably not in a hip-retro sort of way).

Thankfully the old man didn't speak English.

been looking at the list again, and the spelling / handwriting are nudging me in the direction of a dyslexic listmaker, explaining both the Kitchen Role and the Ketchip.

My guess in that case is that the 'sieties' or 'fieties' is a phonetic stab at a word they'd no idea how to spell, and it came to me on the bus this morning that it may be 'fajitas'

If it is fajitas, I think some of the list is Meal Ideas (home made pizza, cooked breakfast, fajitas) rather than Things to Buy.

Still no idea on the Canus Varus though...

Yeuuuuk!
Ketchip Bleuuurgh! it would probably have that nasty slightly perfumey aftertaste of the really cheepo over vinigary ketchup Bear (not I fear a lovely dry homecooked fresh potato chip dipped lavishly in daddys )

I didn't know they were offering my dad for sale in supermarkets now He's 92 bless him so no wonder he's a bit grey and bow-legged!

Kitchen Role - Hmmmm peeler of vegetables... washer of pots... filler of dishwasher???

Will the home made piza [sic] be the kind of 'home made' my Auntie used to try to fob off on all and sundry?

Sieties.... Nope you've got me there! nothing to say other than it's pure nonsense! This listmaker is obviously somewhat dippy!

You can buy tinned "cooked breakfast"

Could "canus varus" be an attempt to make "various cans" sound more exotic?

Like the ketchip on Mrs Badger's list - what a great idea, chips pre-loaded with ketchup. The ultimate labor-saving invention.

and you can buy a cooked breakfast in a supermarket?!?

Where do I get these delights?!?

Canus Varus is latin for grey-haired bow-legged one. can't think of anything you could get off the shelf to fit that description - someone must know....

whoops-a-daisy!

i must admit that if ever i write a shopping list for my husband, i do include little notes alongside to help him out,along the lines of,

sanitary towels - with wings but not crinkly (he knows exactly what i mean by this)

minced beef/lamb - not squeaky (I have a thing about cheap, squeaky mince)

i must admit that if ever i write a shopping list for my husband, i do include little notes alongside to help him out,along the lines of,

sanitary towels - with wings but not crinkly (he knows exactly what i mean by this)

minced beef/lamb - not squeaky (I have a thing about cheap, squeaky mince)

How do you buy home made piz(z)a at a supermarket??

and in abominable handwriting on a sheet torn from a reporter's notebook:

Garlic
sieties (? possibly fieties)
kitchen role
cashews (still in pencil but beautiful cursive writing)
"Sea View Brut" sparkling
canus varus (?)
home made piza
tom spread
cooked breakfast
bread
tissues

Any ideas on the sieties and the canus varus very welcome...

got two in tesco yesterday but they're not as interesting as bear's:

on yellow post-it, with a neat dash as a bullet point before each item:
eggs
oil
tissues
bagel (I presume they wanted more than one)
fruits
vegetables - potatoes
cheese parmesan
ketchip
butter
cream
milk
juice
Rice
Spagethi

(the last two items are in a completely different pen and handwriting)

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This is a brill thread, it's had me ROFL.

Made me very paranoid about what I write on my shopping lists though!

Looked this morning, but haven't found one - DH got the trolley and apologised for not managing to find one with a note . I kept looking at people in the supermarket with lists and craning to try to read them, with no success, sadly.

like it.

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I have been weeping with laughter Bear - love love love your assides

Oh shit you've sussed me out then Bear s'burys - student - no list... I'm the cliche

the thread's run on a mile without me (have had suuuuuuch a crap day [bloody banks emoticon]) I'm going to have to catch up!

Cod - I'm honoured.... feel I have to practice the wave for when returning my torlley!

None at Sainsbury's - very odd types shop there and students who as we all know don't do lists. Have just rescued No. 3 from the bin and it could be Soft Tort, as opposed to Tart, and certainly in the context it makes sense, but it's not clear cut, so please if it's yours, I wasn't casting aspersions, I just can't read your writing

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OK here's the one I found earlier:

(written in blue pen on a page from a spiral bound notebook)

Green Pepper
Cerry tomatoes (cherry?)
Red Pepper x 2
Yellow Pepper x2
leek
Spring Onions
MANGE TOUT

Tuna

Bread
Crisps
PRINGLES

MILK
HAM
cheese
Pasta + Sauce
OJ
Apple J
Eggs

FLASH (liquid cleaner or a stage direction?)
Nappies
Marg?? Pants (sorry can't make this one out)
Cotton Ro?? (ink blot)

Found one last night at Morrisons.

chicken breast
sweet and sour sauce
rice
prawn crackers
bleach
shit roll (I kid you not)
beer

Matalan
new shirt/socks

my dh typed out a standard list in a spreadsheet, in ailse order, with tick boxes to indicate if that particular item was needed that week.

lasted about two weeks then i banned it.