Heinz Macaroni and Cheese in a Can

Last night after the reception where I proudly had my first Guinness in Ireland and then my first Balmer's Cider in Ireland, my roommates and I went shopping. When I was like eight years old, my dog ran out in traffic... that's the only thing I can think of right now the compare the grocery store experience to. Before I left, someone told me the food in Ireland was bad... several people. I thought they were lying. They weren't. The digestives, biscuits, and chocolates is fabu. The rest is not.

Ten reasons grocery shopping is funny in Ireland:



1. They don't give you "sacks" unless you ask for them... and they cost fifty cents. And you have to put a euro in the cart to use it, like at Aldi. And when you ask for a bag, they judge you. Oh, and there's an Aldi HERE! I took a pic!

2. the mincemeat is across from the paper towels

3. There's no Great Wall of Campbell's soup like there is in the states... only packets of Knorr

4. The cofectionary aisle. It's the length of the whole story

5. How on the receipt they tell you how many products you bought were made in Ireland

6. the line is called the "Queue" and cutting is called "jumping the queue" I was in a band once called Jumping the Queue. We were a Slayer tribute band.

7. Macaroni and Cheese in a can. I bought some. Just to see.

8. You can get winked at by five guys in just as many minutes

9. There's no such thing as grape jelly. Just strawberry and something called black currant.
(that would make PB and BC)

10. You get to carry your groceries across a European turnabout, which means not just crossing two intersections, but about 1,304.

Classes started today, which means my posts will be less lame, and less frequent. Try to carry on without me.

One of my roommates, whose name seems to be Deanna McHugh... if that's her REAL NAME and I have decided we're going out in the city centre tonight (where we live is like the close suburbs... maybe kind of like Oak Park... or Englewood).

We have fridays off for "Composition and Research"

Grand. It's 70 and sunny here. Loverly.

tah tah.