What can you tell about a person from looking in their shopping trolly?

[AgentZigzag]

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The bit right at the front of the trolley packed with enough fruit and veg to keep 10 people going for 9 days (by my standards) - obviously a health obsessed freak with control issues.

Meal for one, telly guide and family pack of doritos - - unless they've managed to offload DP/DC for a night alone, and then it's woohoo

I love seeing teenagers mooching about trying to work out whether pooling their cash will give them enough to get a can of redbull to drink down the park

And what's with the people who buy like 30 bottles of shampoo and two tins of dog food?

I've never been able to suss them, but love trying to think of outlandish ways they might be using the items

Tinned pea water - Euuuucchhh

Emma, was it this bottle of Absolut? Was so tempted to buy that, even though I very rarely drink vodka!

Agent, I love sizing up other peoples trollies in the supermarket . Mind you, am sure I was one of those people others judged mightily, when I was younger, single, and obsessed with calories... My shopping trolley usually consisted of 14 WW Ocean Pies, several bags of frozen veggies, and wine . Disclaimer - I do now actually cook.

ComeAlong - PEA water?? Boak. My ex-housemate used to live on Tesco Value mini-pizzas with slices of Calvita on top. Shudder.

Yes - it's that bottle! It was on special, so only about £1.50 more than normal price. Once it's finished, (a year at leasr I'm going to fill it with coloured water. Theres a shelf near my kitchen window, and it will look lovely as the sun shines through it.

You can't tell anything. I put the lettuce on top, and the chocolate at the bottom :o

Lettuce and chocolate on value mini pizzas?

Shit-for-brains here.
Just worked out where you put your greens/Green & Blacks...

Pepsi! Really?? Why? I mean.... Why?

Emma, love that bottle. i bought my wee sis this one a couple years ago. I had Absolut <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=hagotrago.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/absolut_peppar_gr.jpg&imgrefurl=www.taringa.net/posts/info/3306548/Tipos-de-Absolut-Vodka.html&h=www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=www.absolutads.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/04_colors_skin_book_lo_medium.jpg&imgrefurl=www.absolutads.com/%3Fp%3D830&h=405&w=459&sz=35&tbnid=D_61MMg3z7q8QM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dabsolut%2Bcolors&zoom=1&q=absolut+colors&usg=__mUCpLCabt0WAfVQPb611ZCIF6oQ=&sa=X&ei=vR58TerVHM6DhQf-nsXmBg&ved=0CCYQ9QEwAg330&w=240&sz=10&tbnid=QmVcicO8wswenM:&tbnh=119&tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dabsolut%2Bpeppar&zoom=1&q=absolut+peppar&usg=__LnjNvXXeoY6k_TwO5X8TZhUKZyk=&sa=X&ei=YR98TZfLL4qAhAemk631Bg&ved=0CEUQ9QEwBQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peppar once in the Ice Bar in Stockholm, makes a killer Bloody Mary.

Currently, I want this <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=www.absolutads.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/04_colors_skin_book_lo_medium.jpg&imgrefurl=www.absolutads.com/%3Fp%3D830&h=405&w=459&sz=35&tbnid=D_61MMg3z7q8QM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=128&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dabsolut%2Bcolors&zoom=1&q=absolut+colors&usg=__mUCpLCabt0WAfVQPb611ZCIF6oQ=&sa=X&ei=vR58TerVHM6DhQf-nsXmBg&ved=0CCYQ9QEwAg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">one

Feck, realising I sound like I do marketing for a certain company. Quick change of subject to wine? Shampoo? Fire lighters? Anything else that might be found in a trolley...

That's a bottle to decant your vodka from isn't it?

You know that person in front of you struggling to get the value biscuits from the bottom shelf pepsi?

They've noticed your strategic lettuce placing and need to know what secrets you hide for such a calm confident exterior.

They're judging, oh yes.

Oh. Oooohhh. Now I know what you meant Pepsi. and again. Am a giant dope!!

So where do the value mini pizzas come into what you thought she meant emma?

I like tinned pea water.

And you're completely comfortable admitting that in judgmental company?

(mark that on your spreadsheet methods)

Emmanana: I read your list of things and thought to myself that it was the sort of shopping you get when you go in for one or two things but decide that you should have a look around since you're there, and then I read your last comment.

I do love checking out other people's shopping and when it's a bit odd trying to figure out what they're planning to do with it. I'm always captivated by people who have a trolley full of just one thing with a couple of other items. Normally when this happens it's something perishable too like 50 pints of milk - how are they planning to use/store it?

Morloth Do you also like bean juice?? Actually, I rather like bean juice, mashed in to mashed potatoes...

Agent, the mini pizza/chocolate/lettuce confusion was due to my post above ^ re my ex housemate and her value mini pizzas w/calvita. Pepsi posted just after, and pizza topping confusion ensued

tampax, paracetamol and choc = stay back for fear of hormone explosion

Untitled, I had the rainbow one, but it wasn't coloured glass, more a plastic case, that you had to take off to pour vodka. It was fairly flimsy, mine got cracked.

Hows this for a 40th Birthday Present ?

A friend bought it for me. Long since emptied (refilled with own brand voddie!) I know you can buy them in hypermarkets/duty free abroad, but don't know how you would get them on a plane nowadays! I saw them in a hypermarket in Spain a couple of years ago about 50 euros. Good value in those days, only £30ish.

The pump is fab! Love the leather one you bought your sis.

If you're ever in London check out Gerry's off license in Old Compton Street, W1 or online store over 100 types of vodka, and thousands of other drinks. It is like an alladins cave. The guys in there are fab. They have regular tasting sessions of an afternoon, and ask customers whether they should stock a new drink...

I will eat pretty much anything, comes from being raised in the outback on a sheep station.

You ate what there was or you didn't eat. It is like that line in Ratatoille(sp?) 'Once you get past the gag reflex, a whole world of opportunities opens up'.

Sorry to hijack your thread there agent
A couple of voddies, and I do ramble on a bit

Drunken rambling makes up the best part of MN

Emma, am terribly disappointed re the rainbow bottle! I do love that pump though. My Mum would love it. And my Gran. Oh, and my younger sister... Lots of birthday presents for this year sorted so . Although, I was pondering buying this for my wee sister for her next birthday.

Morloth, now you've put Ratatouille in my head. Yum!

Also sorry Agent, was complicit in the thread hijacking. Wine makes me go all tangent-y

X-post Agent. I do love the drunken rambling (can you tell?!)

I bought some ready mash in M&S the other day because I knew it would make a rushed suppertime easier. I prefer my own but sometimes needs must.

When I was about 18 I stood behind someone at the checkout with 48 bars of coal tar soap. I'm sure there was an everyday item in the trolley that made the soap even more surreal but I can't now remember what it was.

Never tried scorpion vodka...You must try Gerrys one time. They have a branch in Leeds I think, if you're up North. They sell every flavour of voddie you can think of. Potato vodka, chocolate vodka, rose petal vodka, ginger vod. I went in there a while ago for a chat, and said I like malibu, but it's too sickly really, quite like Baileys, ditto, and he recommended a gorgeous choc/coconut/vodka liquier. Not too thick or sweet; perfect. It's rare they get it wrong if you give them a brief

LadyWellian ready mash M&S juste proves you have taste

I'm beginning to warm to your extensive vodka knowledge emma, it's healthy to have a pastime isn't it?

Especially one you're able to enjoy so copiously passionately.