Monday, November 17, 2008
Left Turn, Clyde...
Yeehaw! You know the Nascar racing circuit in the deep south of the US of A? The race where all the cars drive in a big oval, always turning LEFT?? Well I got to participate in a Nas-cart event this week at the local Save-On-Foods, but I don't think I won.
All I know is that the stupid cart I was driving had a busted wheel and was always veering to the left. In order to make a right hand turn, I would have to lurch my whole body behind the thing. It began to leave black wheel marks all over the store as the cart got heavier and heavier, so eventually I just gave up and kept going left in increasingly smaller circles.
Here's how my route looked:
Produce aisle, meat area, milk aisle, back to row 1, row 8, row 2, row 7, row 3, row 6 (oops missed the sliced cans of peaches - gotta get back to row 3 eventually), row 4, row 5, row 3 (again), bread area (hit another cart with wobbly wheel troubles too)... then to get into the check-out line it took 4 of us to turn the cart to the right (or I could have swung through the pharmacy and bulk foods, trying to line up a run through produce).
Man, I needed a pit crew!
Oh no. I missed the cereal, diapers and toilet paper! That stuff's not important, is it? I'll get it next week....
All I know is that the stupid cart I was driving had a busted wheel and was always veering to the left. In order to make a right hand turn, I would have to lurch my whole body behind the thing. It began to leave black wheel marks all over the store as the cart got heavier and heavier, so eventually I just gave up and kept going left in increasingly smaller circles.
Here's how my route looked:
Produce aisle, meat area, milk aisle, back to row 1, row 8, row 2, row 7, row 3, row 6 (oops missed the sliced cans of peaches - gotta get back to row 3 eventually), row 4, row 5, row 3 (again), bread area (hit another cart with wobbly wheel troubles too)... then to get into the check-out line it took 4 of us to turn the cart to the right (or I could have swung through the pharmacy and bulk foods, trying to line up a run through produce).
Man, I needed a pit crew!
Oh no. I missed the cereal, diapers and toilet paper! That stuff's not important, is it? I'll get it next week....
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Chip Off The Old...
I think I've found my new favourite type of chips. They are Baked Ruffles, cheddar and sour cream flavour. Very nice. On the packaging, however, it reads "Naturally Baked". Beth and I were wondering what that means exactly.
Could these fully processed and flavoured chips be left on a rock in a desert somewhere to bake "naturally"? I think they are packaged out east, so maybe there are some squirrels in an Ontario forest with an oven fired up to complete Ruffles' final step of the process (my daughter reminds me that even an Easy Bake oven would be too complicated for squirrels to operate, so maybe this suggestion is far-fetched...).
Got an idea of how thousands of bags of chips could be "naturally baked"? Leave a comment below. In the meantime I'll consider writing a letter to the Ruffles people to get the definitive answer to this all important mystery. Hope their response isn't as half-baked as the question....
Could these fully processed and flavoured chips be left on a rock in a desert somewhere to bake "naturally"? I think they are packaged out east, so maybe there are some squirrels in an Ontario forest with an oven fired up to complete Ruffles' final step of the process (my daughter reminds me that even an Easy Bake oven would be too complicated for squirrels to operate, so maybe this suggestion is far-fetched...).
Got an idea of how thousands of bags of chips could be "naturally baked"? Leave a comment below. In the meantime I'll consider writing a letter to the Ruffles people to get the definitive answer to this all important mystery. Hope their response isn't as half-baked as the question....
