Toad in the Hole

Western toad painting by Carl Dennis Buell

Birding and other pleasures and aggravations, in Berkeley and beyond, by Ron Sullivan.

Nobody Believes Me: #3 in a Series

Except people who also shop at Andronico’s supermarket, I guess.

It cost $7.99, so we didn’t buy it. Then we went to Country Cheese after the Freight & Salvage box office, since it’s just across the street. CC had them for +/- $6.00, and that felt like a bargain. Yeah, yeah, I know. So we got one, and had it over three-four days in little bits. Pretty good, strange to say.

After the first bit, I read the package more closely and noticed that it was two weeks out-of-date. Made a difference, I think, but not a big one.

Posted by: Ron Sullivan

Responses

1 | By: kathy a on April 13, 2008 at 07:10 PM

andronico’s is just so berkeley. and this is one perverse candy bar.

do you remember when the store was park and shop, AKA park’n’slop? none of this high falutin’ anti-vegan candy back in the day.

2 | By: B. Dagger Lee on April 14, 2008 at 06:55 AM

When I was little, one of my favorite things was pancakes with peanut butter, bacon and maple syrup. Yumskifuckinglicous.

Fake bacon is getting better, I’m glad to report.

3 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 14, 2008 at 07:12 AM

There’s something waaaay back in the bottom of my memory about peanutbutter-and-bacon sandwiches. Not something I had often or at home; maybe it was some friend’s or cousin’s favorite.

kathy, yeah, or Park’n’Rob or, the one on Telegraph near the UC campus, Park’n’Schtup. Guess it was the student equivalent of the Marina Safeway in SF.

4 | By: VS on April 14, 2008 at 07:38 AM

Hmmm… curry powder and coconut, huh? I sense an experimental batch of fudge in my future.

5 | By: kathy a on April 14, 2008 at 08:04 AM

my sister lived a few blocks from the telegraph one, in a teeny little ugly rental on ashby. people kept breaking in to steal the worldly goods of students. the last time, some genius decided to steal her 5-gallon water bottle half-full of pennies. he dropped it; it broke; and apparently he made off with some of the pennies, leaving a trail of blood.

but anyway, i don’t remember any of the roomies picking people up at the park’n’slop. maybe because they shopped en masse, with a list, and wandered through the aisles debating the merits of ho-hos while they looked for bargain staples.

6 | By: kathy a on April 14, 2008 at 08:11 AM

it goes without saying that my sister and her roomies are best friends for life. they definitely would have tried making their own bacon chocolate, had they thought of it. [with good chocolate—my sweetie then worked for ghirardelli.]

7 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 14, 2008 at 03:12 PM

There was a period in my life when I’d buy canned chocolate frosting (right after it was invented, I think) and use it for potato-chip dip. But then I’ve always been a perv.

8 | By: kathy a on April 14, 2008 at 04:11 PM

someday, i’ll tell you about the night that involved uncooked choc chip cookie dough, frozen yogurt, salami, and i forgot what else. there were dares involved, and i still owe my sister a calzone.

9 | By: VS on April 15, 2008 at 06:29 AM

Jeeeez, all that going on and people freak out over my peanut butter and salsa sandwiches? Don’t dis a pb&s;if you like Thai peanut sauce!

10 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 15, 2008 at 08:02 AM

OK, and I won’t mention the pb-mayo-&-mustard sandwiches I used to like when I was a kid. In fact, maybe once a year I still enjoy one. Serious regression there.

kathy, it all made sense until the salami. Dare I ask what flavor the yogurt was? Or do I really want to know?

11 | By: kathy a on April 15, 2008 at 09:46 AM

it was vanilla frozen yogurt. don’t remember if there were sprinkles involved. from yogurt park, on durant near telegraph. it began as a dorm snack instead of dinner at the cafeteria, and morphed into an eating contest. my sister ate it all.

she went on to become the kind of cal-grad mama who was active in la leche league, and made her own baby food. a woman so far removed from the fast-food nation that she once described a wonderful breakfast sandwich she had in london—english muffin, poached egg, canadian bacon, and cheese—and another sister and i informed her that was an egg mcmuffin.

12 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 16, 2008 at 09:39 AM

Well, goodness, it hardly counts without sprinkles.

I think I’m just a little bit askeered of your sister now. In theory.

13 | By: kathy a on April 16, 2008 at 11:10 AM

it’s ok, she is still all good with bacon and chocolate. a sister who brings chocolate mousse to easter [with whipped cream and chocoate shavings on top] is a keeper.

14 | By: Ron Sullivan on April 16, 2008 at 01:24 PM

Ooooo-K, that’s a keeper all right.

Think we could borrow her just a little?

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