Yesterday I ventured forth to Safeway. Mostly because they had asparagus on sale for a dollar a pound. As soon as I saw the ad, I acquired a raging desire for said asparagus. I also wanted to make good on my promise to check out the cereal aisle, and report back to you.
After picking out my asparagus I headed down to the middle of the store and turned the corner. Here is what I found:
[album 65561 Cereal Aisle2.JPG]
I took out my digital camera and started snapping away. I was kinda afraid some employee would swoop down on me and ask what the flip I was doing taking pictures of their cereal. But no such unpleasantness occurred.
Now I want you to know, in my count of the different kinds of cereal, I did not inflate the number by counting the different sized boxes, nor did I go into the hot cereal part of the aisle. This is just the "eat it out of the box" kind of cereal.
It turned out to be harder to do than I thought because the shelves are 5 high and the boxes are not placed on them in regular lines. But I think I got a pretty accurate count anyway.
There are One Hundred and Eighty Four different kinds of cereal on these shelves.
One HUNdred and EIGHTY FOUR!
Even I was gobsmacked by that number. I thought it would be closer to a hundred.
This is clearly ridiculous. But here is my box of Cheerios for being right about there being at least a hundred.
[album 65561 Cheerios2.JPG]
And just for a little historical documentation, here is the price of a box of Rice Krispies. That price is clearly ridiculous.
[album 65561 Rice Krispies2.JPG]
Anyway, that was my fact finding trip to the grocery in 2006 in America.
Oh, one more thing, for my readers in New Zealand. The produce manager at Safeway at least, has things right as far as the proper name for this tasty little fruit:
[album 65561 Kiwifruit2.JPG]
Just thought you would like to know. :-)
But I still say they look like reindeer testicles.
(That comment was in VERY bad taste.)
I'm just sayin' . . . .
Besides when did YOU start getting squeamish about less than genteel comments?
[album 65561 gb.JPG]
After picking out my asparagus I headed down to the middle of the store and turned the corner. Here is what I found:
[album 65561 Cereal Aisle2.JPG]
I took out my digital camera and started snapping away. I was kinda afraid some employee would swoop down on me and ask what the flip I was doing taking pictures of their cereal. But no such unpleasantness occurred.
Now I want you to know, in my count of the different kinds of cereal, I did not inflate the number by counting the different sized boxes, nor did I go into the hot cereal part of the aisle. This is just the "eat it out of the box" kind of cereal.
It turned out to be harder to do than I thought because the shelves are 5 high and the boxes are not placed on them in regular lines. But I think I got a pretty accurate count anyway.
There are One Hundred and Eighty Four different kinds of cereal on these shelves.
One HUNdred and EIGHTY FOUR!
Even I was gobsmacked by that number. I thought it would be closer to a hundred.
This is clearly ridiculous. But here is my box of Cheerios for being right about there being at least a hundred.
[album 65561 Cheerios2.JPG]
And just for a little historical documentation, here is the price of a box of Rice Krispies. That price is clearly ridiculous.
[album 65561 Rice Krispies2.JPG]
Anyway, that was my fact finding trip to the grocery in 2006 in America.
Oh, one more thing, for my readers in New Zealand. The produce manager at Safeway at least, has things right as far as the proper name for this tasty little fruit:
[album 65561 Kiwifruit2.JPG]
Just thought you would like to know. :-)
But I still say they look like reindeer testicles.
(That comment was in VERY bad taste.)
I'm just sayin' . . . .
Besides when did YOU start getting squeamish about less than genteel comments?
[album 65561 gb.JPG]