I know, I know. You want me to tell you what Hallowe'en was like here. Be patient, I will. Perhaps I'll use the extra hour we have tonight to do that. But first, here is something that is puzzling me.
When I go shopping in my local Dillons (you know me, life in the fast lane), there is an aisle where the sign tells me I may find water, juice, soda and aseptic drinks. Hello? Aseptic drinks? I haven't actually managed to identify which are the drinks in that aisle that are the aseptic ones, but when I do so, am I to conclude that all the others are, in fact, septic? Oh goody. I knew they tasted better over here.
juice boxes!
ReplyDeletewhich is weird and scary in and of itself.
I've NEVER seen the term aseptic drinks. Never.
ReplyDeleteBut I think "juice boxes" is right.
Wow.
I've never seen that term either. Why wouldn't they just say juice box? Cause I'm with you...it implies there are septic ones, too.
ReplyDeleteAseptic - I looked it up, it means preventing infection from micro-organisms - erm, god bless America, in Sainsburys sometime soon then...
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for your lovely funny comments on my blog - you cheered me up no end :)
Iota for a few minutes I completely forgot you were in America and have been trying to work out how you got an extra hour?!!
ReplyDeleteAnyway according to the recent press over here every food is harmful! But they will probably change their mind about that again next week.
I live in Canada, but for a time lived in California, and the wonders of the food industry (or should that be The Wonders...?) never ceased to amaze me: crackers and cheese that didn't need refrigeration! milk that didn't need refrigeration! food that didn't contain any recognizable ingredients! At first it was a foreign land that was sometimes exciting, sometimes scary, but then it dulled, as most things do, into a relatively calm but always fascinating Hunt For Real Food.
ReplyDeleteI must say, I still miss Target. And cheap booze. And Trader Joe's. But I don't miss the endless political discussions that occur every election time! My sincerest condolences!
tI live in the US (because I was born here -- I would rather spend winters in Venice and summers in the Azores) and I miss Target and Trader Joes and I have NEVER heard of an Aseptic drink. But I moved from Portland , Oregon to a place where "going to town" means a 20 mile drive to a 12K town with NO Target and my beloved Trader Joe's is in Saint Louis (5 hour drive)and let's not even discuss how hard it is to find a decent Oregon wine. But I also lived in Guam for 3 years where the 1st rule of acquisition was, If you think you may ever need this buy it because it won't be here in 5 minutes AND the second rule was, do NOT bat an eye at paying $8.00 for a gallon of milk (from Australia) because the alternative is too awful to consider.
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