Funny how important appearances are to us, really.
On the way home from a shopping expedition, we stopped to fill the car up with petrol. M went to pay while I cleaned the dusty windscreen. He came back to the car, laughing that he was a sucker for packaging. He’d bought a new look Coca Cola.
Anyone else seen this new look Coca Cola? What is it about this style of packaging soft drinks? Is the long skinny can more attractive, or something?
We’d been in the city, braving the hordes of Christmas shoppers. I wanted to buy a gingerbread man cutter. That’s all I wanted, but do you think it was possible to find any such thing? We went to about five different shops but all they had were Christmas-themed biscuit* cutters, trees and angels and the like - no gingerbread men.
Finally, tired and ready to give up, I suggested we go to the bakers’ supplies shop near our home. They were only open this Sunday because it’s Christmas. Of course, they’d sold their last gingerbread man cutter yesterday - but they did have lots of really cute biscuit cutters, in various animal shapes.
Our three year old nephew is dinosaur crazy at the moment, so he might enjoy some Christmas biscuits shaped like triceratops. And his sisters may appreciate teddy bears, giraffes and hearts. (The other shapes are an elephant, a crocodile, and a lion.)
You’d think I’d just be satisfied with plain old biscuits, wouldn’t you? But no, how these biscuits look is probably as important as how they are going to taste.
I wonder if Mum has any gingerbread cutters…
* I think what we consider to be biscuits (biccies) in Australia are cookies in the US. What Americans call biscuits, we’d consider to be scones, I believe.
