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[ars_longa]

I think I just made the casher in Safeway's day.

Imagine that: 10 cans of sweet peas, one triple chocolate mousse cake, and a bottle of Glenfiddich Special Reserve.

I have to give credit where it's due: she didn't laugh. I would have.

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10 cans of sweet peas

[kpoxa-e.livejournal.com]

That a lot of olivie, all right :)

Re: 10 cans of sweet peas

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Да заебало меня каждый раз в последний момент за ним ехать потому что ей полбанки не хватает!

Re: 10 cans of sweet peas

[kpoxa-e.livejournal.com]

Shoprite has can-can sale 2 times a year :)

Re: 10 cans of sweet peas

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Shop what?

Re: 10 cans of sweet peas

[kpoxa-e.livejournal.com]

А. Пардон :) Сеть супермаркетов, у нас очень распространённая. Shoprite.

Re: 10 cans of sweet peas

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Never friggin' heard of it.

Re: 10 cans of sweet peas

[kpoxa-e.livejournal.com]

I c :)
Вот у них это называется "кан-кан сейл" - и девочки с ногами до ушей на рекламе, все дела - и консервные банки у них тогда стоят центов 25-30. На беру пару коробок, на год :)

[tazlet.livejournal.com]

It's the peas that makes one wonder.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the special Russian twist for ya. There is a salad, called 'olivie', which is a sort of potato salad. It's an obligatory item in any Russian holiday meal. And my mother sends me to a store every friggin' time in the last moment because she'd friggin' half of a can short of it! So I bought 10 this time out of sheer irritation.

But of course the casher didn't know that. :)

[lferion]

Having been a cashier at Safeway, during the holiday season, that is indeed an *amusing* order, but by no means the strangest :-)

The ones that really made me wonder were the people buying 22lb pound *frozen* turkeys at 3pm on Thanksgiving day itself -- they were going to get that turkey cooked how? -- and the ones I really felt for were the bewildered menfolk having been sent out for [insert random spice/strange vegetable/obscure other item] who had obviously never been in the store before.

One of these days I will get the "Typical Late Night Purchase" story written.

Post the recipie! I'd be interested to see it.

[ars-longa.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's potato, sweet peas, ham (actually, originally it was something akin to bologna, but I prefer ham), onions, pickled cucumbers (in brine! not in vinegar!), some canned salmon... some people add apples or other things - there is quite a number of holy wars about what should and what should not be in olivie - and mayonnaise, of course. That's basically it.