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[sovay]

Just in case spatch and I had had any doubts about the utility of the vaccinations we re-upped this afternoon at the Theatre Pharmacy, where you can still treat yourself from the candy counter after a shot—we got a packet of caramel creams, a Zagnut, and a Sky Bar—we were street-hassled for our masks less than an hour later while stepping out of Book Ends in Winchester Center, by a dude who thought comedy meant repeating the punch line. I may have told him to get under the earth.

Of my several attempts at a self-portrait from the passenger seat with my insurance phone's camera, spatch said I should share the one where I look as though I have just seen a bird beyond the window.



He got me a reprint of Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These (2021) and a card featuring a small black cat, adorably rolled over, with sincere green eyes.

Comments

[selkie]

HELP HELP NICE SHOVEL NICE NICE.
(I truly wondered where you had found the Zagnut. 1932, I figured.)

[sovay]

HELP HELP NICE SHOVEL NICE NICE.

I hadn't been street-hassled just about three years! I hadn't missed it!

(I truly wondered where you had found the Zagnut. 1932, I figured.)

spatch got to experience the equivalent of an unboxing video as I ate it. I did say first that I liked it and then that it was an amazingly Depression-era candy bar. "What have we got? Coconut flakes and peanut butter? Throw a wrapper around it and get it on the shelf!"

[moon_custafer]

I was floored when I found out a few years back that Zagnut was a real candy bar. I'd assumed it was a blatantly fake brand name made up by the scriptwriters of Beetlejuice (1988).

(Was equally shocked to learn Piggly-Wigglies are a real chain of... restaurants? grocery stores? I'm still not sure.)

Edit -- boo to the anti-mask guy.

[selkie]

(Grocery stores, one of the first to eschew counter service in the South in favor of the A&P “get it yourself” model.)

[sovay]

(Grocery stores, one of the first to eschew counter service in the South in favor of the A&P “get it yourself” model.)

I must have encountered them first in books, although I did see them in the wild in high school. (How much do I not want to road-trip through South Carolina at the present moment? Let's just take the ways as counted!)

[selkie]

It's funny because they're the poor people grocery store? And yet the charming anthropomorphic pig has carried them into Literature. (This also happened with Winn-Dixie, which was the trashy grocery store and is now Aldi.)

Yeah no sorry the car is um... unable to cross the Maryland line because it will... melt?

[sovay]

(This also happened with Winn-Dixie, which was the trashy grocery store and is now Aldi.)

I had missed the Aldi! The sometimes counterintuitive power of art.

Yeah no sorry the car is um... unable to cross the Maryland line because it will... melt?

No, I've seen the axles, it will.

[sovay]

I was floored when I found out a few years back that Zagnut was a real candy bar. I'd assumed it was a blatantly fake brand name made up by the scriptwriters of Beetlejuice (1988).

I highly recommend the Stan Freberg commercial.

(Was equally shocked to learn Piggly-Wigglies are a real chain of... restaurants? grocery stores? I'm still not sure.)

"The preacher says all my sins is washed away, including that Piggly Wiggly I knocked over in Yazoo."

"I thought you said you was innocent of those charges?"

"Well, I was lying. And the preacher says that that sin's been washed away, too."

Edit -- boo to the anti-mask guy.

Thanks.