Saturday, June 11, 2005

042 - Calories!

Struth. I know I'm not the healthiest person in the world, but at least I dont' stock up on quite as many calories as this fat chuffer. Fizzy drinks, cheese galore, chocolate trifles, chips, mayonaise... The healthiest things I can find on here is Muller Fruit Corners, and even that's not real fruit. I wish their heart all the luck in the world.

041 - Ring Mum

Awwww. Here's someone, evidently a bachelor, who needs to make a note to ring his mum. How sweet of him! He does, however, also need reminding to iron. I find this a little worrying, as when I lived on my own I never bothered. Mummy's boy.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

120 - Fredrick's Hotel Restaurant Spa


Another Waitrose list, this one again conforms to the streotype. Written on headed notepaper from a 5-star hotel, the shopper includes such items as "squid", "coco butter" and "halloumi". Yet, in amongst all this frivolity lies that pesky "Marmite" yet again. Damn Marmite and its yeasty goodness!

Monday, May 23, 2005

040 - Pompadue

Another shopper who has an interesting way of spelling. This time they struggle with "cuccoumber" and "lettus" from the salad section, "pezza" and "sausouge" from chilled food, and have some random stuff called "pompadeu" on the list. And I thought that was a French policeman...

039 - Viva Espagna

Heyhey! A wonderful list to expand the multi-cultural section fo the site, here's one from Spain. Not really of course (it's from Sainsbury's) but it's written in Spanish. My own Espagnol is a little rusty, though, so I've not got much beyond Bananos. I think this is Spanish for bananas. Can anyone confirm? UPDATE: it appears that someone can! Audrey has emailed to say that she ran "bananos" through altavista and 'it stated that the translation to English is "banana trees". Not sure why someone would need two of them though.' Damn sure!

038 - Waitrose (Obviously)

This list was obtained from Waitrose. Have a read of it. You could have guessed where it was from. I needed to do a Google search to find out what the hell "helda beans" were. Apparently it's a posh name for "flat beans". What's just so brilliant about this list, though, is that the shopper will only take "Helda beans (or nothing)"! I mean, will runner beans not do? Even http://www.thinkvegetables.co.uk says there's no difference.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

037 - Posh Paper

Very fancy paper, this. It's like the stuff that Habitat wrap your glasses in. I think that's quite posh, at least. But that's about as posh as this person gets. While they try to convince us that they only eat the finest foods (it's an interesting ingredient list, this) the giveaway that this shopper is actually useless in the kitchen is found in them wanting to buy a teaspoon of lemon juice from a supermarket. Sorry mate, but no.

036 - Courgette x 2

Two courgettes? TWO courgettes? I struggle with one.

035 - For All Your Shopping Needs

Here's a mystery. It would appear that Douglas and Gordon are a company specialising in "all your shopping needs". Why the hell, then, is someone with their notepad shopping at Tesco? I can only deduce that Douglas and Gordon are shite at sorting "all your shopping needs". Maybe it should read "For all your shopping needs, except loo rolls, loo cleaner and few other things. Like fruit and veg." Losers. UPDATE: list #191 is written on the same pad of paper!

034 - Anything Thomas

Anything Thomas. It sounds like the name of a kids' book. Anything Thomas. I'm guessing that Thomas is happy to have anything, whereas Alison is specific: Capri Suns here, please! I like the couble exclamation mark after (Pads!!) for eye make up remover. What else are they going to use? Wire wool?