Hey COD (or whatever your nom de guerre is now) - a list for you

[Bear]

I double-swore I'd never do this again, but this puppy was too good to ignore. I harvested a list from a trolley. It wasn't a live one - the restraining order still stands, but it is a real life list nonetheless. I give you the list, you tell me the store:

written on a corner ripped from a lined A4 piece of paper

Butter
Pate
Caviar (I shit you not)
Napkins
Flowers
Butternut
Gruyere (no accent)

credit crunch still to hit this shopper IMHO

yours ever
Bear

napkins - I'm sure they hold their knife properly too

They are having a dinner party

blackboard outside fishmongers in islington:

treat yourself, have champagne and oysters tonight!

wot recession???

FWIW there was no accent on pate either - they might eat posh, but they can't do French proper

that's some dinner party -millionaire's Ready Steady Cook what would Ainsley knock up with that shopping bag?

Partriges?

But what are they having?

Pate on toast?

Caviar (what do you have caviar on?

Butternut rissoto made with gruyere (personally I use parmasan)

would waitrose be too obvious?

lidl?

They are having
Caviar on blinis as a canape/starter
Beef wellington/tournados Rossini as a main
Roasted squash gratinated with gruyere

And if they were really posh they would have linen napkins.

that's true

It's my list! And it was all for DD2's packed lunch.

they only sell paper napkins in our Waitrose (I never said it wasn't obvious), nice ones though

Caviar tastes best from the back of one's hand

no blinis on the list, tho Waitrose do sell them - d'ya think they make their own? Who has the time to make a frikkin blini (to paraphrase Shirley Conran)

I like Carmenere's menu a lot - wish I wasn't hungry and the economy hadn't gone down the crapper