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30 October 2006
Oh, dear Lord. Product tie-ins reach their inevitable conclusion.
Somehow I missed seeing these at the store. I was too busy contemplating my new Delta Force toy soldier set, complete with large amo belt, grenade launcher, and desert camouflage. (Forgive me... I loved toy soldiers when I was a kid. Plus, we'd just watched Apocalypse Now the night before, which I'll be showing to my AP students next week, having finished reading Heart of Darkness. I also recently learned of Hearts of Darkness, the documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now, which I must, must see.)
(Pops of Darkness? Shrunken heads on popsicle sticks? Too literary?)
Good God Almighty. Do they sell any real food in that supermarket? And by real food I mean raw ingredients that can be used to make healthy meals from scratch.
Actually, our cart included bananas, apples, fruit salad, carrots, red potatoes, parsnips (jon's dubious about the parsnips, but I'm planning stew), wheat bread, V8 pineapple/orange juice, basmati rice, fresh chicken, pork chops, and beef, both cubed and london broil.... (as well as Dulce de Leche Oreos, Snickerdoodles, Oatmeal Cookie Ben & Jerry's, Pepper Jack Doritos, Banana Chubby Soda, and a few other assorted goodies... : ). Needless to say, we really stocked up.