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Fig Leaves . . Not Grape Leaves

A blog reader told me she would send me her stuffed grape leaves recipe and as we were on our way to town this morning, I received her email with the recipe. Of course, I wanted to make them NOW. I kinda expected that I would be using fresh grape leaves but the recipe calls for leaves out of a jar. I’ve seen those before!

Our first stop was Walmart and they didn’t have grape leaves. I looked in all the places I thought they might be. Vince was saying “You are NOT going to find grape leaves in this town!” We asked a couple of people in Walmart, got that “what planet are you from?” look. Nope . . we don’t carry grape leaves. I was still not giving up but finally realized . . they didn’t have grape leaves.

We went to United. Vince said “PLEASE ask someone and don’t spend half an hour looking all over the store!” What? From YOU who never spends enough time in the stores . . whether you need anything or not!

I asked two people there. Same weird look. Nope . . never seen those before. I went over to the pickle aisle because that’s where I figured they would be and yep .. found them!

 

Grape Leaves

As we were checking out, the lady looked at them and said “Grape leaves? What do you do with these?”

The opening Vince needed. He pointed to me and said: She sews them together to make clothes and then she gets naked in the evenings and runs around the neighborhood with just her grape leaves. You know . . like Adam and Eve. See . . we even bought apples too.

I said “Vince, I think they used fig leaves but I’m certain they didn’t use canned grape leaves!” and I assured the checkout lady that is NOT what they will be used for. I think she knew Vince was not telling the truth.

Who would think to say something like that? Another reason I should be going to the grocery store by myself.

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  3. Now that I calmed down some…….stuff them and simmer in a tomato sauce. Sooooo good. Forgot what they are called in Greek but it begins with Dolm_______something. Still laughing….

    • Except I don’t like tomato sauce! The recipe she sent me doesn’t have tomato sauce and any time I’ve eaten them in restaurants, they didn’t have tomato sauce or I would not have liked them. They are called Dolmas or Dolmadakia.

  4. OMG that is so funny. My father in law would come up with that.
    He went Long’s Drugs and bought 3 containers of Metamucil and told the young clerk that they were for the party at the old folks home.

    • My husband’s grandfather had Long’s Drug Store in Rockwall, TX about 1900. The Longs were from Athens, TN and had a general store there. I know this has nothing to do with the subject at the moment, but this is how my mind flows, dribbles then forgets.

  5. I am not telling Vince that. He does not need those kinds of ideas floating around in his head.

  8. The cashiers at the grocery store is always asking my husband if he wants his milk in a bag. His comment is always no it carries and pour much better from the jug. It usually goes over the young girls head. Like Vinny’s humor.

    • Hey, milk here in Windsor ON comes in bags. There is a jug made especially for 1 liter(quart) bags. No returns on the jugs like in Michigan.

    • Getting a much needed laugh this morning from all the comments from clever husbands. Reminds me of the time before we started using the self checkout when the young cashier would pick up the egg carton and automatically ask “Did you check your eggs?” DH would usually reply “Yep, there’s 12 of ’em in there”. Some would laugh but some didn’t get it.

  10. Oh dear! I bet that cashier is telling everyone she sees today about this! You will be the top of the conversation in that house! LOL

  11. I can just here and see Vince doing that at the store. All I can say other than laughing my head off is ”there is never a dull time when Vince is around.

  12. Yep my husband would come up with something close to that … Except it would be for a Halloween costume… hahahahaahahahahah

  15. OH, that’s SOOO funny!!!! You didn’t mention that when you told me you found them!! That was some quick thinking on his part!!

  16. I still have tears running down my face! And, I’m sending this to my cousin (Sandy Panagouleas) for her reaction. I’ll let you know.

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