Foodapalooza

We went to the grocery store tonight.  A real grocery store.  I say that because typically we shop at SUPER Wal-Mart...which is like shopping in Soviet Russia...except with a lot more hillbillies.  We went to Schnuck's...which is really not THAT nice of a grocery store, but I swore I could hear grocery angels singing when the automatic doors swung open.   I stood there in the floral department and gazed out into a produce wonderland.  Hey.  Don't judge.  I don't get out much.

Apparently Emma was a little overwhelmed by the store too, because every 2.5 seconds she said "MOM look at THIS!"  "MOM!"  "MOMMA!"  "hey MOM!!".  She showed me every card in the card section, was lying on the FLOOR next to a display of croutons gazing at them lovingly, and spent a few moments eye to eye with the live lobsters.  She made faces about the smell of the seafood department,  read all the stock numbers off the side of the russet potato display, decided that she did NOT like tomatoes no matter HOW many different kinds there were and did 30 laps around the lettuce section with her hands in the water misters.  She then informed me that she would try veggie chicken nuggets the NEXT time she came to the store.  Liar.

Tom was shopping with Ida and making goo-goo eyes at the yellow fin sushi tuna in the sea food case while I was dragged around by Emma who pointed out that  purple cabbage was just painted green cabbage.  I divided my time between saying "What?" "NO!" and "STOP IT!!", sprinkled with a few "KNOCK IT OFF!"s punctuated with a couple of threats and upper arm pinches.  I was trying to enjoy the huge selection in the store but was continually interrupted by loud cries of "WHAT'S THAT?????"  I explained all the deli cheeses and the olive bar, what fingerling potatoes are and yes that people really do EAT lobsters.  I also divulged that pepperoni comes in long sticks and isn't originally produced in circles on pizzas.  This was mind boggling news.

We finally made it through produce, seafood, deli, cheeses, meats and entered the aisle of bread, snack cakes and donuts.   Emma sighed happily as she looked around and said "Now THIS is a grocery store!"
She plucked a bag of powdered sugar donettes from the shelf and skittered happily over to the cart.