Garlic

I like garlic. Unfortunately, I don't use it often enough. I'll buy a bulb for a particular recipe, use two or three cloves, and put it away. By the time I need more, the bulb will be merrily sprouting. So....

The chosen recipe for this week's dinners is a spaghetti variant. (The sauce is tomato-bacon, rather than tomato-beef.) It calls for garlic, of course. At Shop'n'Save, garlic is - or has usually been - kept in a little stand off to one side of the produce area. There was no garlic there. Hmmm... The onion stand? Nope. Maybe in the organic foods section? Nope. I gave up and asked one of the workers for help. "Excuse me. Where's the garlic?" He straightened up, started to turn and point, stopped, and looked at the stand he'd just been filling.

"Right here."

My ego is slightly salved by the fact that he had to think about it. We were both laughing as I walked away, garlic bulb in hand.