Random Saturday thought

[apocalypsos]

Every time I go to the grocery store, the phrase, "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter" gets stuck in my head.

I once had a fight with my mother about where that phrase comes from, so everybody who knows get the fresh baked good of their choice. :)

EDIT: *starts handing out cookies and muffins and scones and cakes and stuff*

OVERWORKED WRITER OF EDIT: Yay! Another chapter done! *happy dance*

Comments

[gramaraye.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street?

[spyderqueen.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street. Kid reciting grocery list so he could remember what to bring home.

[contrariwise.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street!!

[katiger.livejournal.com]

Ok I read the comments and I want baked goods so uhhh Sesame street!

[dorei.livejournal.com]

It's Sesame Street. A little black kid is sent to the grocery store by his mother and keeps reciting that list to himself. Little pictures of the items are going through his head.

If I recall, he gets them and is like, "I did it! I did it!"

[etoilepb.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it a sesame street thingie, one of their little cartoon/sketch things? I hear the voice, too.

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

Sesame street! A kid is trying to remember what Mom told him to get: "a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter". Kind of like that Canadian cheese commercial where the kid is repeating "Gouda. Gouda. Gouda." (But still brings home havarti.)

[paradisacorbasi.livejournal.com]

Duh. Sesame street.

[laughingrat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure everyone else has done been guessing already, but I remember it from Sesame Street.

LOL! Yep!

[ninamonkey.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street, doll, as everyone's said.

I think it was another way of indoctrinating children into the Sesame Street Hive Mind.

((Remembers yelling as a child: "It's a stick of butter! You forgot the butter!"))

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

Sesame Street, of course! Do you ever try to buy a fire engine? (Was that it?)

[kearie.livejournal.com]

Well I didn't know it was from Sesame Street, frankly.

However there was one of those kid's books that are on tape too so you can read along that I listened to at school in 3rd grade. There was a mystery and a kid had to go solve it but he didn't have money for the bus. But then he remembers he was on his way to the store: "Milk, bread, and peanut butter! He DID have money!" That one always sticks in my head

[silverhill.livejournal.com]

It was Sesame Street. But I think it was a little girl not a boy. (And the reason it gets stuck in your head is because the kid is trying so hard to remember that she chants that phrase over and over all the way to the store.)

And I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one who gets that phrase stuck in their head. I do frequently think "a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter" at the grocery store. And a couple days ago when I asked my husband to pick up some milk, I was about a millisecond away from saying "a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter." But I thought that would confuse him.

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

It is a little black girl. She's trying to remember what to get, and she's quite proud of herself for remembering.

[blacktarrant.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel better, you're not alone in doing that. ;)

[tania.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh. I'd forgotten all about that, but as soon as you said the phrase, I totally remembered that segment on Sesame Street! It was lodged in my brain taking up neurons that otherwise would have been used for something productive... >_

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

And then he sees other things to try and remind him of what he needed? And then can't remember what he needed in the first palce, until he goes backwards through the list?

Oh yeah, I have no life.