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cart a half block across the store, past frozen foods,
hardware, Hallmark cards, charcoal, automotive, dog
food and shampoo, to the dairy department.
As I put the milk into my cart, I discovered that
somebody had taken my red snapper and the two
bottles of LaCroix — and also my tomatoes lettuce,
garlic, parsley, lemons, pole beans and Sundried To
mato Bread! Oh dear! Instead of what I’d selected I
found four cobs of white corn, Fresh Express Farms
Riviera Salad Mix, peaches, a watermeion, a cake in
the shape of a bulldog and Pineapple Walnut Delight
from the deli. I must have picked up the wrong cart
back there in vegetables! So I grabbed the vermouth,
plus two cobs of corn, left that cart parked near but
ter and returned to vegetables.
I couldn't find my original cart, but near kiwi fruit I
found one with most of the stuff I needed. It had pars
ley, garlic, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, lemons,
Colombo Fisherman's Wharf Sourdough Bread, sum
mer squash, okra, white grapes and a bag of Vidalia
onions. That was good enough. I took that cart and
rolled it over to tomatoes, where I replaced the six I
had lost. I don't eat onions, because I can't digest
them, so I removed the onions from my cart and put
them in another cart that some folks had left unat
tended near melons. I gave those folks the okra, too.
Now I needed to go back to Titus at the fish
counter and get his advice about another kind of fish
to cook. He showed me grouper, cod, halibut, amber-
jack, orange roughy, salmon trout, tilepia, mussels,
Pacific sea bass, medium shrimp, large shrimp, extra
large shrimp and jumbo shrimp, and mussels, oys
ters, squid, octopus and live Ma-ne lobster. Since there
was no more red snapper, I decided to try orange
toughy.
I took the orange roughy and headed back to
chicken, where I fot md chicken livers for my dogs. On
my way I passed a cart with paper plates, plastic cups,
Quick Lite Charcoal, Jose Cuervo Margarita mix, Wise
Choice Low Fat Bar-B-Q Flavored Baked Potato Chips,
pork chops and marshmallows. Somebody was go
ing to have a cook-out. I took the Margarita mix and
left the summer squash.
All I needed now was pasta I parked my cart near
chicken and then spent 10 minutes looking at all the
pasta: Kroyer Enriched Spaghetti, Kroger Enriched
Thin Spaghetti, Kroger Enriched Vermicelli, Kroger
Enriched Elbow Macaroni, Kroger Enriched Fettucini,
Kroger Enriched Angel Hair,, Kroger Enriched Lasa-
gna, Kroger Enriched Rainbow Salad Whirls. Since
they were all enriched, I felt that it didn’t matter what
I chose. So I selected Kroger Enriched Angel Hair
and went back to where I’d left my cart. Good grief!
It was gone! Somebody must have moved it by mis
take!
I was just too exhausted to continue shopping,
so I started walking towards the checkout counters.
But would you believe my good tortune! I found an
abandoned cart with all kinds of interesting things:
elephant garlic, jack cheese, Romaine lettuce, six
long yellow peppers, a dozen little green tomatoes
which I think are called tomatillos, some tiny dark
green peppers, limes, corn tortillas, Jos6 Cuervo
Margarita mix, Tribe of Two Sheiks Scallion Hummus,
a Bugs Bunny helium balloon, The Great Dakotas
Pesto Bread, the movie The Terminator, and a white
package from the fish counter that looked a lot like
my red snapper. So I took that cart to the check-out
stand: $31.43.
It then took me 25 minutes to find my car. I acci
dentally left Kroger's by the wrong door and led the
young man helping me with my groceries all around
the parking lot till I finally remembered where I had
left it. I should have just taken the nearest car.
On my way home I tried to create a new menu
for my party: I could have pesto bread with scallion
hummus for an hors d’oeuvre, a tomatillo and garlic
salad, and fish with some of those long yellow pep
pers. I'd find out how to cook the tiny dark green
peppers from that nice young boy in the deli. Maybe
I could bake the fish with both yellow and green pep-
Ders.
But when I got home and opened up the fish pack
age I found squid. Goodness! I have no idea what to
do with squid! After I watch The Terminator I'll go back
to Kroger's. I'm glad they're open 24 hours a day.
Betty Jean Craige
Dr. Craige is Director of the UGA Humanities Cen
ter and is University Professor of Com
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she call
him back
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I don't know what I m going to do tomorrow night
when my guests come for my dinner party. I was plan
ning to have baked red snapper and pasta, which I
know how to prepare, but I didn't manage to get the
right ingredients when I went to Kroger's.
I shopped at Kroger’s today because senior citi
zens get a discount on Wednesdays. I guess that's
because there's so little we can digest that we mostly
just buy drugs. Anyway, I got one of Kroger's nice new
gray shopping carts and headed toward the veg
etables. On my way through the bakery I picked up a
loaf of The Great Dakotas Sundried Tomato Bread. In
the wonderful vegetable section, where sounds of
thunder tell us when the vegetables are about to get a
shower. I put into my cart six Roman tomatoes, one
head of Boston lettuce, one clove of elephant garlic,
one bunch of parsley, a bag of lemons, and a pound
of pole beans. Because Kroger's is so big and the
aisles are so long, I parked my cart near avocados,
so that I could pick up a few items nearby quickly. I
needed twc bottles of LaCroix mineral water for my
party, because nobody drinks faucet water anymore.
Then I walked over to the fish counter, where Titus
gave me the last of the red snapper.
I returned to my cart and Deposited the LaCroix
and the package of red snapper. Then I left it again to
get vermouth, which was on aisle #2 with all the wines.
Finding Cinzano Sweet Vermouth with little trouble, I
figured that I had gotten almost everything I needed
for my party — except pasta and milk. I pushed my
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