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

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i am vaguely intrigued by these as identified in teh times
"Discarded notes are rubbish to most people, but not for worldwide subscribers to Found, which reprints them. The magazine?s publisher, Davy Rothbart, gets bundles sent to his office in Michigan. Laura Kwerel, a radio producer in Washington, was ?overwhelmed? after reading one issue. ?I realise now,? she says, ?that there is more humanity in a discarded grocery list than in a thousand-page novel.? Some people need to get out more. "
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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)

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...

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

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)

whoops-a-daisy!

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....

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

You can buy tinned "cooked breakfast"

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!

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...

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.

only got one at the weekend:

purple post-it, very neat, direct and to the point :

Ibuprofen
tampax
dishwasher liq.
dips
mash.

only comment (at the risk of a major backlash and excommunication from the board) - where's the chocolate?

wow bear
theres a woman on pmt

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Various dog foods?

today's offering is very straightforward. Angular handwriting looks mid-50s, but judging by the appearance of nappies on the list and the toddler scribbles over it in the same pen, I'd adjust back to mid-30s, but mature:
Veg (tomatoes) - got that wrong, they're fruit
Fruit (see above)
Surcare Washing Powder x 2
Butter - mysteriously scrubbed out
Bread
Smoked Fish - ooh, that hasn't come up before
Caster Sugar
Chorizo sausage - me, I never ask for this at the deli counter as I always forget how to say it, is it Koreetzo or Choritho (with the "Ch" as in chew), or summat else? anyway it's posh
Nappies - natch
Vanilla ice cream - wasn't long ago that all ice cream you got in the supermarket was vanilla, how we've moved on
Fancy soft drinks - eh? What are the fancy ones, not Rola Cola or Panda Pop I'll bet
Frozen peas
Can of sweetcorn
Pasta Bows
Shreddies cereal
Plain flour wholemeal (white scrubbed out)
Paper tissues
Chipolatas (nice, like them)
Maple Syrup
Balsamic Vinegar (heavily scrubbed out) - ABC1 then, but worried that someone might find the list and jump to conclusions, well someone did, me and with hours of CSI:Miami, NY and Vegas (Miami rules) behind me I can read anything you write - you can scrub, but you cannot hide

Lol @ fancy soft drinks!!!

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Bear, I suspect it is a granny who looks after a grandchild

Granny could be right Maiou. My Granny loved smoked fish

(I went to the supermarket on Monday and had a furtive look for lists, but didn't want to make dh suspicious "I'll take the trolley back!" I said brightly. "No, you put ds in the car, I'll do it," he said - darn, foiled)

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