Beau Peep Notice Board
Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Diane CBPFC on April 22, 2011, 02:35:39 PM
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Earth is by far my favourite planet. I really must start remembering to take my cloth shopping bags with me.
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I forget to take a bag with me every time I go to Tesco's with the result that I now have around 300 "bags for life" in my kitchen.
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I love Earth, I should really spend more time on it. ;D
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Stop smoking the weed, then, Max.
I am amazed how easy we are used to grabbing the bag of bags as we wend our weary way towered the supermarket.
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As a kid I distinctly remember a thing called THE shopping bag. Every family had one, and it hung behind the kitchen door. Your mum used to send you to the shops with it, and it always smelled of potatoes.
I used to work for Tescos in the 70s and we used to have a massive pile of boxes, all sizes - leftovers from the shelf stacking- piled against the wall for customers who wanted to pack their groceries into a box before carting them off to their car. There were plastic bags too, but they cost money, and most people opted for the box option.
There were bloody riots if the boxes weren't available, but most people did bring bags of some sort.
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As a kid I distinctly remember a thing called THE shopping bag. Every family had one, and it hung behind the kitchen door. Your mum used to send you to the shops with it, and it always smelled of potatoes.
I used to work for Tescos in the 70s and we used to have a massive pile of boxes, all sizes - leftovers from the shelf stacking- piled against the wall for customers who wanted to pack their groceries into a box before carting them off to their car. There were plastic bags too, but they cost money, and most people opted for the box option.
There were bloody riots if the boxes weren't available, but most people did bring bags of some sort.
I'm sure it can't have been easy balancing a box on a penny-farthing though, Malc?
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Penny farthing? We used to DREEEAAAM of a penny farthing.
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Funny, you mentioning the boxes, Malc. Kate asked me what had happened to them the other day. Franklins used to have a big cage full of them at the checkouts and Coles and Woollies usually had them.
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Woolies has now ceased to be, Joan.
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The world doesn't end at Dover, Bilthe.
We still have Woolies in Oz, but over here they're more like Tesco.
Supermarkets in Australia are thirty years behind the times, by the way, but stop me if I've already bored you with this.
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The world doesn't end at Dover, Bilthe.
We still have Woolies in Oz, but over here they're more like Tesco.
Supermarkets in Australia are thirty years behind the times, by the way, but stop me if I've already bored you with this.
Never said it didn't, Malc. I even like vegemite.
If they are 30 years behind the times, then you must still be able to get reasonable food and it be in stock on the shelves.
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Sadly that Aussie staple, Vegemite, is now American-owned (Kraft). There are some who say the Yanks have already altered the taste of the stuff, but I wouldn't know.
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I think Marmite's gone more "plasticky" lately.