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Amusingly, but maybe a little TOO fluffy for me: Slave To Target.
Seriously, people, aside from my well-documented "luv&devotion"* to the place, as much as I'm ever going to have for any huge retail chain, I mostly go there weekly because they have some of the cheapest groceries in town. When everyone else had gone to $.66 per Yoplait yogurt, they held fast at around $.53. They sell the Tyson frozen chicken breasts that I use constantly (recommended by Cook's Illustrated!) for $9/bag, as opposed to the $11 that Kroger charges. (Giant Eagle charges as much as Kroger and doesn't carry anything but their store brand.)
Also: boleros** were not really friend to many in 1988 or whenever they were last popular. They are unlikely to have improved their disposition with time. Hark! (Admittedly, they do flatter a few very specific figure types.)
* That may be overstating it. I just prefer it to WalMart or Kmart, and I've gotta buy mascara and Mucinex somewhere....
** Is this the year when they just randomly revive old trends that have Spanish-language-inspired names? Bolero? Gaucho? That does means that sombreros are going to be this winter's indispensible hat... right?
ETA - speaking of which, I totally want THIS. Too awesome.
Seriously, people, aside from my well-documented "luv&devotion"* to the place, as much as I'm ever going to have for any huge retail chain, I mostly go there weekly because they have some of the cheapest groceries in town. When everyone else had gone to $.66 per Yoplait yogurt, they held fast at around $.53. They sell the Tyson frozen chicken breasts that I use constantly (recommended by Cook's Illustrated!) for $9/bag, as opposed to the $11 that Kroger charges. (Giant Eagle charges as much as Kroger and doesn't carry anything but their store brand.)
Also: boleros** were not really friend to many in 1988 or whenever they were last popular. They are unlikely to have improved their disposition with time. Hark! (Admittedly, they do flatter a few very specific figure types.)
* That may be overstating it. I just prefer it to WalMart or Kmart, and I've gotta buy mascara and Mucinex somewhere....
** Is this the year when they just randomly revive old trends that have Spanish-language-inspired names? Bolero? Gaucho? That does means that sombreros are going to be this winter's indispensible hat... right?
ETA - speaking of which, I totally want THIS. Too awesome.
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I remember those LOTR goblets from BK -- my sister loves LOTR, she would have been all over those!
Totally unrelated to Star Wars, or LOTR, but as far as goblets go:
Over the summer, when I went on vacation to South Carolina, my aunt & uncle from North Carolina drove down to take us out to eat and spend two days with us. Well, when they took us out for dinner, we went to a Mexican chain restaurant, and they served him beer in a big goblet. Now, my moms boyfriend got his beer served to him in a goblet, in fact, everyones drink came in a goblet (which I thought was awesome). All of a sudden, my uncle, flagged down the waitress and said: "Can I have a different glass, this is not a proper beer glass" (now my uncle is kind of those rather traditional and conservative people that everyone hears about from time to time). But I was sitting there, thinking, 'how could anyone not want any sort of beverage served to them in a goblet?'
Weird.