For the last few Christmases, I've made pancake breakfast. It's my favourite thing to do -- have a house full of people and make them all breakfast. Pancakes, bacon, and orange juice.
This year, I realized on Christmas Eve that I didn't have any orange juice. I ran to the local Shopper's Drug Mart and was quite impressed to find they had a variety of the brand I like. So, I grabbed two. I knew Ky liked OJ with pulp in it and I thought everyone else didn't. I was in a rush, threw two different ones into my basket and head out.
When I got home to unload the juice into the fridge I saw I had made a mistake. Sure, I grabbed one box of "with pulp" but the second box was "with MORE pulp".
I had read the "beaucoup de pulp" as "without". So much for core French.
Mmmmm, chunky orange juice.
ReplyDeleteI actually like pulp. I think I'm in the minority.
You obviously inherited your reading ability from you father. We see what we expect to see, not what is actually there.
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