Reading the samples

The quantity of samples available at grocery stores around here continues to defy the gravity of the recession. Here are some highlights:

McCaffrey's, Saturday:

• Mild and spicy bbq sauces on chicken chili.  With chips
• Niblets of corned beef with sauerkraut and mustard
• Salmon salad with Chicken in a biscuit type crackers
• Those stupid pretzel chips they always have
• Cubes of marble pound cake at the coffee bar
• Carrots or something like that in produce (doesn't really count)

Does that sound like the Great Depression?

Olive Mays, Sunday

• Vegan fried chicken (surprisingly tasty)
• Seems like there was one other thing

Read my lips.