Our choice and how it reveals our taste

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When you can choose whatever you want, is your personal taste is forever on display?

― Anna Lijs, Friday, 23 September 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Not if it's drive-thru.

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

I am aware of this sometimes, I know I shouldn't be. It does stop me from making choices too, again I know this to be wrong.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 23 September 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

Me too. But then, when I am in supermarkets, I make up stories about people's lives based on the contents of their shopping baskets.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I do that too Anna. maybe it IS wrong, but then you can't not think SOME things about an old man with a trolley entirely full of two litre bottles of Coke and one Stagg curry in a tin.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

I get really paranoid when shopping sometimes, that people are doing this to me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

And now I know they are!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I wonder what people must think of me based on the things I have at the checkout counter. (Knit yer own tofu Guardian reader with a basketful of fresh vegetables, Linda McCartney and real ale?)

(I have stumbled up to a counter with a bottle of vodka, a pack of condoms and a jar of vaseline - but only once, and it really wasn't what it looked like!)

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

I do that too Anna. maybe it IS wrong, but then you can't not think SOME things about an old man with a trolley entirely full of two litre bottles of Coke and one Stagg curry in a tin.

that he is totally awesome????????

omg i want to grow up just like that old man

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

but to answer the question of course it is forever on display?

although there was this one time I had to buy "Life is a Roller Coaster: Ronan Keating autobiography" for someone, and i was too embarassed to buy that on its own and I bought another less crap book with it (i think it was angela's ashes - good it was too)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:31 (twenty years ago)

I did that when I had to buy Dido's No Angel for work. I picked up an Echo and The Bunnymen album, but then I also got a cute boy at the counter and just stood there going "it's for work, it's for work, it's for work, it's for work."

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 23 September 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

My work canteen caters not only to oursleves but to the retired wealthy-ish residents of the local community who come in for lunch and a tour of the (listed) building.

It serves salmon and tarragon, cous cous salads, aubergine and smoked brie pizza and various other non work canteen meals.

We want sausage rolls, toasties, chips and plain old sandwiches for our lunch, but the canteen manager insists on upkeeping some 'image' and charges a fortune for what he does sell.

They made a slight concession and now chips are available on the side, but my default comfort food is chips and cheese (old scottish dinner hall classic) and I feel like a pleb of the lowest order asking for it.

― Rumpie, Friday, 23 September 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

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