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Impulse Buys at the Grocery Check-Out

SethG

By SethG
in Food Traditions & Culture

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Jaymes

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Magazines if they are food related or if they promise to dig me out of my chaos and get me "Organized at Last"!

Or, "EAT THESE FOODS AND LOSE WEIGHT!"

I don't understand why rappers have to hunch over while they stomp around the stage hollering.  It hurts my back to watch them. On the other hand, I've been thinking that perhaps I should start a rap group here at the Old Folks' Home.  Most of us already walk like that.

Cusina

Cusina

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Orbit Gum

Not usually a gum chomper, but when you need some you need some. You know?

What's wrong with peanut butter and mustard? What else is a guy supposed to do when we are out of jelly?

-Dad

NeroW

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Whatever's there. Gum, candy, lighters, highlighters, pens, stickers, baseball cards, Better Homes and Gardens booklets, cat-astrology booklets, etc.

Noise is music. All else is food.

Basilgirl

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Martha Stewart's "Everyday Food." I can't bring myself to subscribe, but I think I've bought every issue. :shock:

Starbursts, Sour Skittles, Altoids Tangerine Sours.

I love cooking with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Larry

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Always Vogue, food magazines and Shape (for exercise tips to work off the food!). I must seem like a walking oxymoron to the sales clerk. Also, trident gum, you can never have too many packs.

elyse

elyse

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Am I the only person who doesn't get caught at the register?

I'll buy a Snickers every blue moon, but that's only when I'm getting a hunger headache, and there's no other food around that I can eat in under two minutes. But that's the only thing. And it's not an impulse.

SethG

SethG

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We can't all have your self-control, Elyse. :smile: Patience is all we ask.

Edited in case anyone thought I might be serious.

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"I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast;

but we like hot butter on our breakfast toast!"

KateW

KateW

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Any sour candy, a nice cold lipton iced tea, peach if they have it, which they usually don't. A food magazine. Never bought a tabloid.

JPW

JPW

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2 words

Sweet

Tarts

The most perfect candy ever invented. No other ingredients to get in the way of the sugar.

If someone writes a book about restaurants and nobody reads it, will it produce a 10 page thread?

Joe W

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