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

I'm thinking the 30 bottles of shampoo and 2 cans of dog food is an extreme couponer. They got some shampoo coupons.

Bethelbeth "a spatula, condoms, marshmallows, petit pois and toilet cleaner" That would have caught my attention.

Mashed potatoes... no way in hell I will eat them. They make me wretch... I ate them almost everyday growing up. I will stomach them if I go to a friend's for dinner, but that's it.

Pea water! What!

Today I bought:
toilet paper
kleenex
organic orange juice
spinach
5lb bag of carrots
bulk chocolate chunks
bread
lotto ticket

Pretty mundane for a Saturday afternoon shop.

Oh, Emma, I like the sound of that place... I live in Dublin(ish), but am in London fairly frequently, will defo have to pay a visit. I too love Baileys, but find it faaar too sickly, so that liqueur sounds fab . You are my new Oracle of Booze

LadyWellian, my grandparents used to have stacks of coal tar soap. Also, this, which my Grandad used to refer to as 'red soap'.

I went to Tescos earlier today and bought Huggies Pull-Ups and a nice big bottle of Tequila. I should add that I'm a guy. I could feel the judgey eyes burning a hole in my back.

Even the dopey teenage cashier looked shocked...

...I do like Tequila :)

Hehehe WingDad. I feel your pain - I once picked up a PG test for a friend in Sainsbo's, whilst buying a few bottles of wine for us. Got some very odd looks

Ah, tequila... Mmm, especially Petron Silver, yummers

Jose Cuervo all the way, accept no deviations!

Ah no, WingDad, it must be Patron (whoops, spelled it incorrectly the first time!), in a tall glass with lots of ice and several wedges of lime. Or the mad shite my folks brought back from Mexico with a tasty worm in the bottle. Or .

Gin is my choice. Hendrick's or Victoria, Victoria being a local one so I don't think you can get it in the UK. But alas, I BF DD till she was 20 months and then promptly got pregnant again, and I can't even blame the gin; it was the sandpit... but that's another thread.

GotArt... The only Gin I can drink is Bombay Sapphire... Where is Victoria from? Must try it. BTW, 'it was the sandpit'...? Am so very intrigued!!!

actually you can tell NOTHING about a person by what they have in their shopping trolley. They could be buying for other people, and other purposes.

what a fucking stupid thread

Been caught with something incriminating anonymosity?

Childrens party ingredients, condoms and a bottle of vodka perhaps?

People actually drink Cuervo? I use it for cooking.

Patron is acceptable, kind of like the Don Julio, but love El tesoro or Corzo if I can get it.

Tequila is my favourite thing of all I think.

like his order of prioritise shit!

If you looked in mine you would think I lived off tinned food, rice and pasta. Simply because I buy all the fresh stuff at the greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers, bakers etc. I really don't think you can infer much if you don't see where else people shop.

Great thread!

Queen Stromba... I have done that very thing, bought lots of one particular item (20+ blocks of Davidstow Cheddar Cheese) and just one or two other non-related things. I have colleagues in France who love Cheddar and just before I fly out, I have to do a Waitrose run. I draw the line at baked beans though... they can import their own.

How about a trooley full of boys clothes, various sizes, milk, bananas?

trolley!

Wine is ok, but whiskey and gin is a worry.?????

eh.. why????

blackeyedsusan... I suppose that could be a TV props buyer, whizzing along to pick up some clothes in a hurry, with a penchant for a smoothie?

I do most of my shopping online so normally my basket would be 5 unrelated items.

Yesterday it would have been obvious that I was making antipasti and the spaghetti for dinner. :)

I love my sometimes random shopping trolleys and wonder what other people are thinking, but usually they are thinking about themselves just like you are :o

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In my first year at university there was a ten minute gap between pestering my flatmates essay writing and desperate housewives when I used to run to Sainsburys and buy a bottle of red wine and chocolate to pass the advert breaks with. Obviously always there same time every week, always served by same gay. Predictably the time I went in to buy paracetamol, razor blades and vodka (getting ready for a night out, clearly) he served me again. Completely bottled it and ended up only buying ibuprofen...

My mum bought my sister a pregnancy test at the same time as buying herself menopause vitamin pills. She said she could just feel the girl on the till wanting to explain to her why this was wrong!

Have you ever been tempted to try something, on your next shop, that you've seen in somebody else's trolley?

I recently bought Ian Rankin's potato farls after seeing them in someone else's shopping... jolly nice they are too.