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[ivyfic]

I was just in the mart next door to my apartment trying to find candy corn. It's October, right? There should be candy corn. I didn't see any on the shelves so I asked the cashier where the candy corn was. Totally blank stare. She called over two guys from the deli counter and they sort of looked at each other and went, "candy...corn?" OK, guess they don't have it.

This would have been amusing enough, but the guy next to me then asks them for margarine. More blank stares. He then attempts to explain what margarine is: "You know, it's like butter but not." Nothin'. "The other vegetable?" (Which - what? Since when is margarine the other vegetable?) "There's this thing called 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter.'" "Oh, yes, butter is over there." "No, it's not butter, it's margarine." Back to blank stares.

Candy corn I can see not knowing what it is - but margarine?

Comments

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

That's bizarre. I think you and the other guy were temporarily in a parallel universe.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

To be fair to the staff, I have never seen Margarine shelved anywhere but RIGHT NEXT TO THE BUTTER AND OTHER BUTTERALIKES.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

But in this case, there was no margarine there. Hence the asking. It's a very strange little store with an odd assortment of products, and nothing quite where you'd expect. For example, they have a number of foreign gourmet cookies but none of the other normal types of cookies. Except for double-stuf chocolate oreos.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Did the cashier appear to speak English as a first language? Because that might have been the source of your problems.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

They're Indian so I can forgive the candy corn. But margarine? I don't care if English is your second language -- how can you run a market and not know what margarine is?