DD found a shopping list in Waitrose

[LemonDrizzle10]

No naice ham
Feet?

I always refer to my AirPods as my “ears” (as in, “Sorry for being late to the call, I couldn’t find my ears”) so maybe it means socks or similar?

Also agree with a PP, anything written separately is something I’m going to buy in a different place.

I work in a supermarket and someone left a small shopping list (written on the back of an old lottery ticket) at the back of a checkout recently.
We're still stumped by one of the things ('BLOCK'?) but loved the little drawing of the pyramid teabags!
Some of the others took a bit of working out.

More interested in the "Diet Cock"

Is there a full fat version too then presumably?

Yes, and 2 craps!?

PyongyangKipperbang That was the one that was commented on most, for some reason! 😁

Also.....I get the spelling mistakes but what on earth are "2 craps"?!

PyongyangKipperbang We think the '2 craps' is actually '2 grapes'. Punnets of grapes.
Hope so, anyway!

What gets me is that they are struggling with Lettuce and Juice but can spell Quiche and Spaghetti which are arguably harder!

although not as hard as the diet cock obviously!

Yeah DP just said grapes!

PyongyangKipperbang That's what we said too!

Could block be cheese?

Diet cock ck rather than ke, so continuing that spelling theme they want a bloke, possibly a Jewish one, not a block, which will get them a cock, no guarentees of if its the diet size though.
Where can you buy 5 eggs though?

PyongyangKipperbang I thought cheese, or one of those toilet disinfectant blocks? Surely cheese would be more obvious to write, though? Heaven knows.

Oh yeah..... DP said maybe she wants a skinny bloke to stop her husband gettinga bit on the side hence the "Diet Cock Block".

Diet cock ck rather than ke, so continuing that spelling theme they want a bloke, possibly a Jewish one, not a block, which will get them a cock, no guarentees of if its the diet size though.
Where can you buy 5 eggs though?
I have no idea. Maybe they needed 5 eggs for a recipe, or started to write something else, then changed their mind?

I lost my job in hospitality during covid and started in a supermarket. I have to admit that I did secretly hope to bring back the Shopping List Threads on the back of it but I have found NONE!! Gutted!

PyongyangKipperbang
I've been there over four years, and this is the best one l've seen. Mostly they're very mundane and boring.

Packet cheese sauce mix: 45p. Half pint of milk: ~40p. Total ~85p.

Made at home: milk: ~40p. Butter: £1.80. Flour: 55p for 500g own brand. Cheese: ~ £2.50 for a block. Total: £5.25.

This!

Robert Popper, comic writer and genius behind Friday Night Dinner, writes fictional and bemusing shopping lists and leaves them in trollies for all of you people to find.

I do find mocking the list of the clearly dyslexic or poorly educated person above a bit much though, people.

I thought exactly the same!

Ye olde MN tradition. There was a time when a day didnt seem to pass without someone finding a shopping list and typing out the details on a MN post - back in ye olden days when photos on MN werent a thing. Threads went on for ages discussing the ins and outs of the various items on said lists.

Yeah shopping list threads were great!!

I believe that one of those is were "Naice Ham" came from?

My husband's shopping lists only make sense to him half the time. He puts "hair", rather than shampoo and conditioner (because it's shorter to write). I can't remember some of his other short cuts, but they often amuse me.

You are mean. @GetWhatYouWant