Of course we mustn’t mock the uneducated, but…

I was in Asda a few minutes ago, doing my usual frustrated shuffle behind slow-moving gawpers. Immediately in front of me, a couple are obviously looking for something specific. She heads for the International Foods aisle, but her shaven-headed, tattooed and string-vested consort points out “nah, that’s for all that fackin’ foreign shit”.

So they do a quick about turn into the next aisle. “Yeah, thassit”, he mutters, as they make a beeline for the…

Dolmio pasta sauces!

I coughed a little laugh into my basket.

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3 Responses to Of course we mustn’t mock the uneducated, but…

  1. Nick Iribar says:

    Well, if you will go into Sutton Asda what can you expect? If you really want an experience, try the one at Beddington. Chav mothers slapping 7 bells out of their kids, ‘stop crying you little farkin’ caaaaant, you’re embarrassing me!”

    Supermarkets are a window on the worst of the human condition, once day it’ll be me with an uzi in Sutton Tesco.

  2. IanM says:

    Are you sure that you hadn’t accidentally strayed into Farm Foods?

  3. adrian says:

    Haha! Farm Foods is great… like the biggest contradiction ever encapsulated in a business name. “Factory Foods” would just be far too honest and boring ;-)

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