Comments on: Supermarket trauma

By: miguel

miguel — Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:21:01 +0000

that sounds like great fun. did he make you wear a hat?

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:12:40 +0000

my first job was at a Kroger grocery store, but the floor manager let me skip bagging and go directly to “express lane” cashiering.

By: miguel

miguel — Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:08:47 +0000

bear supply aisle.

By: space

space — Fri, 09 Aug 2002 05:15:28 +0000

It’s the goddammed honey that I can never find. Where the hell is it? It’s not with baking supplies, it’s not with breakfast condiments, it’s not with the organic foods. If anyone finds some at their grocery store, mail it to me, I’m sick of looking.

By: miguel

miguel — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:30:39 +0000

Well, it’s “Zimt” in German. Interesting. Most German spice names seem to be similar to their English counterparts. (i.e. baby spice = “Baby Spice”, sporty spice = “Sportlich Spice”)… I wonder what the historic reason for that is. Like pepper= Pfeffer, salt = Salz, cumin = Kümmel, etc.

By: francis s.

francis s. — Thu, 08 Aug 2002 19:13:14 +0000

Interesting. Just like here. Must be a common European supermarket model.

(Where did English get the name “cinnamon” anyway? It seems like every other European language has some version of the word “kanel” – don’t they?)