While I'm on the subject of past memories....
I went into a Dunkin' Donuts years ago and was happily perusing the wide selection of flavors, trying to decide which one sounded most yummy, when I happened on the "plain jelly" one. I found it sounded less than appetizing when I considered what plain gelatin looks like. Besides, all the other jelly-filled ones had fruit names in front of the "jelly" part.
So I asked the donut clerk what flavor jelly this variety had in it.
"It's plain jelly," she said, looking at me as though I had three heads and "kindly" refraining from adding a "duh!" at the end.
"Yes, I know, but what sort of jelly -- cherry, strawberry, raspberry...." I persisted.
In her eyes, the number of heads on my body multiplied by a factor of 10. "Just plain," she repeated firmly, figuring I was dumb or at least hard of hearing.
I gave up and chose a cream-filled one. Less complicated and less likely to provoke the "Donut Nazi."
"Achtung! Achtung! Ve only serve de donuts vith plain jelly at ziss location."
Just plain scary.
"No DONUT for you!"
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