There is a nicely curated corner devoted to paper goods: sturdy notebooks by Postalco, in mustard, navy and battleship-aqua ($14), and satisfyingly dense boxes of cream-laid Crown Mill stationery ($39), which make a shopper nostalgic for the lost art of written correspondence.
Someone gifts him a box of cream cakes.
There's a recipe for Cream of Wheat – just a box of Cream of Wheat, sugar to serve and some milk – in memory of Kris's late husband and the Kardashian sisters' dad, Robert Kardashian.
Anyway, she then hears a man's voice in her kitchen and whips around to find not a man, but a GIANT BOX OF CREAM OF WHEAT COME TO LIFE.
She then hears a man's voice in her kitchen and whips around to find not a man, but a GIANT BOX OF CREAM OF WHEAT COME TO LIFE.
Down the baby or wooden spoon or maths homework must go; off to the box of creams; over to the miserable child; coax her out of clothing, taking care to hold her hands in a one-handed grip so fingernails are immobilised; apply creams, allay screams and howls; cuddle; stagger back to baby/cooker/miffed older sibling, taking eczematous child with me; attempt to restart task.
Except there's ice cream as far as the eye can see: half-gallons of every flavor, bundled in rock-hard blocks about six feet tall, in which the half-gallons are arranged in individually plastic-wrapped bundles of four; three-gallon parlor tubs stacked neatly; and boxes and boxes of ice cream bars and treats.
Consumers are buying in smaller amounts - large one-litre plastic boxes of ice cream are now less commonplace, while single-serving 150ml and 450-500ml cardboard tubs are more readily available.
At Lechter's in Bridgewater, for instance, a customer must be at least 19 to buy a box of whipped cream chargers.
She'd been wandering around the kitchen as she talked, dancing with the phone in an idle slow saraband, watching the frost sketch a design on the window over the sink, no sound but the soft hiss of the ice pellets on the roof, and now she pulled open the freezer door and extracted a pint box of ice cream.
