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[piperki]

I SWEAR this is what I overheard two young teenage (about 17-19) male supermarket employees say:

Guy 1: I've got to buy parsley.
Guy 2: Why?
Guy 1: I've got a hot date tonight.
Guy 2: And you've got to buy parsley? Why not a tomato plant or something?

Still puzzled.

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[aome]

Maybe he was going to cook dinner for his date, and wanted to garnish the plate to look extra fancy?

As I was trotting through the grocery store last week en route to the baking aisle (ran out of vanilla I needed to frost a cake), I overheard this, just as I was passing by:

Guy (early-mid 20s) to friends: "You know, I used to be addicted to doing the Hokey Pokey, but in the past year I really turned it all around."
Me: *groans*
Guy: *laughs*

[piperki]

It must be Supermarket Encounters With the Young week...a few days ago I was climbing the shelves in the dairy aisle to reach a container of heavy cream way, way too far back for a normal person to get it. As I jumped back down, one of those pesky shirt-and-tie stockboys appeared, probably younger than my own kid. He said, "Nice job," and I replied, "Hey, I'm a PRO."

[full_metal_ox]

(If you're wondering where I popped up from, nearly a yea\r after the fact, I wandered here from thequestionclub.)

The explanation strikes me as fairly simple: parsley is, among other things, a breath freshener.