{"id":1057,"date":"2009-03-24T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T12:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/03\/24\/090324-souplabel\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T20:48:56","slug":"090324-souplabel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/03\/24\/090324-souplabel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chronicle of Unfortunate Grocery Abbreviations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me:<\/em> Are you still coming home for lunch?<\/p>\n

She:<\/em> Yep.<\/p>\n

Me:<\/em> Good. I’ll fry* you up your usual Chunky Girl soup.<\/p>\n

She:<\/em> What’d you just say?<\/p>\n

Me:<\/em> Uh…what? Oh, I just said, uh, that I’d make your usual soup.<\/p>\n

She (doubtful):<\/em> OK.<\/p>\n

That’s what I get for being observant. Well, that’s what I get for being observant and<\/em> a smart-aleck. I can’t help it if I noticed the ill-advised way that our local grocery store choose to abbreviate Campbell’s Chunky Grilled Sausage and Chicken Soup:<\/p>\n

\"Scan<\/p>\n

By the way, MLB<\/acronym> (who, just for the record, is the antithesis of “chunky”), contends that this particular model of soup is her very favorite, and well worth trying.<\/p>\n

*Actually, it’s 1:45 in the microwave. Frying is not remotely involved, as that would smack of cooking, an endeavor to which I do not aspire.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Me: Are you still coming home for lunch? She: Yep. Me: Good. I’ll fry* you up your usual Chunky Girl soup. She: What’d you just say? Me: Uh…what? Oh, I just said, uh, that I’d make your usual soup. She (doubtful): OK. That’s what I get for being observant. Well, that’s what I get for… Continue reading The Chronicle of Unfortunate Grocery Abbreviations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8589,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/8589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}