Quiet Night In
Do you ever have a secret nose at what other people are buying in the supermarket? Of course you do. How could you not?
You get the Chips ‘n’ Lard types, those with the Tesco Super-bleached High-GI Stodge Loaf, the oven chips, the mini kievs (are they a starter or a main course?). And you get the Dinner Party People with their Food That You Can Pretend You Made Yourself (I dream of getting Waitrose to cater a dinner party).
I saw that Kevin McLoud from that Grand Designs in our local Tesco once. Green and Black chocolate, chicken breasts, and red wine, as I recall. Probably planning that Jamie Oliver recipe: chicken in chocolate sauce.
I do like to speculate on what the smaller trolleys/baskets are going to be used for. People with just a few items. I saw a woman tonight, she had a twin pack of sirloin steak, a very small bottle of Merlot (half- or quarter-sized, I’d say), and 4 toilet rolls. I wanted to say, “Having a quiet night in, are you?” I’d guess a quiet night in front of a weepie movie, if the toilet rolls had been regular tissues. Instead, I imagine her chugging the Merlot direct from the bottle, eating the steaks raw, and then spending a happy weekend with a bout of dysentery.
I once saw a woman with some fresh asparagus, smoked salmon, blinis, Philadelphia cheese, and 4 D-size batteries*. I didn’t know where to look. My own idea of the perfect shopping basket for a quiet night at home? Medjool dates, chocolate with bits in, a bottle of Gallo Turning Leaf, and an insulin injection. What’s yours?
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*Not really
1 x 150g Walkers Sensations Thai Sweet Chilli crisps
1 x 250g Cadburys Fruit & Nut
1 x 100g Mars Revels
1 x 100g Mars Skittles
6 x 330cl bottles Stella Artois
6 x Mr Kipling Cherry Bakewells
1 x feather
“Special” bread reduced to clear.
Pesto.
Celery & Walnut salad.
Milk.
Excellent contributions both. And, Roy: missed you, man.
It would have to be:
• small peppered salami, - Sainsburys do a nice one
• selection of cheese, - has to include Stilton
• proper bagette - Saino’s organic is great
• tub of humous - Costco do great tasting vats of the stuff
• bottle of red - a nice Cahor would be choice of the moment
• olives (green, that still include the stone)
In fact this was tea on both Friday and Sunday. mmm
Thinking about food is about 114% better than doing work.
Thanks MaxiB
The stuff in the picture about sums me up.
Donuts,
Coke
Milk,
Fruit and Nut Chocolate.
& a DVD
Quite sickening really- I do have other stuff to eat already in the house
A bottle of cheap Irish cream, as many reduced pastries and cakes as I can fit in my basket and a tub of Ben and Jerry’s latest tenuously titled tub of iced fat.
That, and a Meg Ryan DVD binge. Sigh.
Food most glorious comfort food.
We’ve been OfSTEDed this week, and I’ve been bingeing on luxurrrry choccie bics. I suspect the withdrawal will be traumatic.
Luis, I can’t help thinking the combination of coke and milk is asking for trouble.
In Basildon, I see trolleys full of white bread, microwave meals, oven chips, burgers, cola and supermarket own brand Value/Economy/Basics stuff (mainly junk food). The people with these trolleys are usually very overweight. It’s like watching “Honey We’re Killing the Kids.”
My quiet night in:
- luxury cat food (my cat has standards)
- fresh tuna (to be seared with herbs and spices)
- posh salad ingredients
- balsamic vinegar
- extra virgin olive oil
- plain yoghurt
- mango
- acacia honey (for the yoghurt)
- bottle of Cab Sauv to share with Billy