Couldn't resist, just couldn't resist.This afternoon, we had occasion to go to the Aberdeen Mall. On hearing this, our admin person asked us to get some of the famous 'Papa's Beard' cream puffs, if the line wasn't too long.
I hadn't heard of these things. But when we got there, there was indeed a huge, long line and a chair with a notice limiting how many each customer could buy and saying that the wait was currently an hour. I was reminded of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld.
We didn't wait, natch.
But now, some small part of me desires to try the cream puffs from Japan that everyone craves, to find out what all the fuss could possibly be about, and another part of me thinks it's all because everyone thinks like that.
Last night, as I was crashing, there was an ad on TV for a Black Friday six hour sale at Fred Meyer. Kevin joked that we should go down to the States for it.
Today we discovered that quite a lot of Canadians didn't stop at joking about it. The line for the border was an hour long at 4am.
Are we insane?
2 comments:
'Papa's Beard' sounds wrong, for some reason.
Yeah, I think it might quite literally be wrong. The name might be more bizarre than that, perhaps it was 'Beard Papa', the name messed with two languages in my head, 'barbe à papa' being French for candy floss, so the words just...yeah, were wrong. Anyway you look at it, its wrong. Perhaps it works in Japanese.
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