Shopping Dockets found in a Cookbook bought from the LifeLine Bookfair.
The book is “Shoots, Leaves and Eats”, by Fran Archway. I’m assuming Fran knows the joke!
Tucked inside the pages are two shopping dockets.
Two different supermarkets.
One lists Shape Active milk, Brocolli and Sweet William Pears.
The other lists full cream milk, butternut snaps and peanuts.
One healthy, one not so healthy. I wonder; do two people do the shopping? Or does one person do the shopping, with conflicting purchases? Do they buy the healthy food where people they know can see them, and the unhealthy stuff at a place where they know nobody?
If I use it in a story, I’ll make the contrast more extreme, but I love the little contradiction these two dockets provide.
I found lots of excellent books at the bookfair. More soon.
Can you make out the dates on the dockets, Kaaron? Because, to be awfully prosaic, if the healthy one came after the fattier one, it would mean a diet had begun. Sorry to stomp on your more interesting theory of two people!
The ingredients, put into one list, and rearranged, could make a little found poem. Lots of similar sounds. Not so sure about the milks, though…
I look forward to a story about something weird that incorporates a shopping list.
This is an interesting theory, also! Keeping the old docket to remind themselves of what was, perhaps.
Write that poem, Penelope, and read it at Conflux!