I have saved 82p from 'multibuy savings' during my visit to the supermarket today.
Looking at the receipt upon my return home, it feels good to recognise the names of my friends: macaroni cheese, mushrooms, granary loaf, Marston's Pedigree, baked beans, swede.
Perhaps a reader is thinking 'get a life'. Well, I have had one of them already, and it wasn't very good. Standing in noisy bars with bouncers on the doors, with horrible modern music and aggressively flashing videoscreens, drinking overpriced lager and straining to hear what someone is shouting in my ear. I think that's what some people mean by 'life'. Oh, to think of what I'm successfully avoiding: all the cackle of banal conversation, all the having to maintain relationships with lots of different people, some of whom I like more than they like me, some of whom like me more than I like them, some of whom I thoroughly dislike and the feeling is mutual, some of whom wish me well but are quietly looking forward to being on their own again, as I am.
No, macaroni cheese and granary loaf are far more rewarding companions.
Get a loaf.
5 comments:
I hate to come across as a culinary fascist, but... life tastes better with some feta, sundried tomatoes, basil and green olives (onions, peppers, tuna, sweetcorn) in the macaroni and mushrooms. Surely...?
That is beautiful, mannered piece of writing. Such precision in the tone and enough sly humour and intelligence for the reader to feel fully satisfied since there is no effort whatsoever in the reading. It is the kind of meal I aspire to and I doff my hat in passing to you, good sir.
No, I'm thinking, 82p...how much is that in Aussie pesos?...aboooout 1.75...mmm macaroni cheese.
Jinjir: You certainly know how to make a man feel hungry.
Paul: What a tremendous critic you are. It's great to read such keen, thoughtful appreciation; thanks indeed.
Lillipilli: Yes. May macaroni multiply in magnificent mild mayhem.
I like to buy toothpaste, shampoo and cleaning products. It makes me feel efficient and content in some odd way.
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