in my Japanese class, we were saying what we bought last weekend. I couldn't think of anything easy to say, so my American classmate said 'did you buy groceries?'. I said I did, but we don't call it 'groceries'. I then realised we don't seem to have a word for it in Britain. I call it 'food shopping' or 'supermarket shopping', as a noun, not an activity. Is there a word for it? Am I being stupid?
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'Stuff'.
we do say groceries don't we?
that's what I thought
e.g. green grocers, etc.
yeah but
do you ever actially say "I'm going grocery shopping" or "i'm going to get the groceries"?
yes
I h8 u
but actually we don't!
i live above a mini supermarket called The Grocery but i don't say 'i'm going to get some groceries'. strange! why is that?
exactly
but I have no idea why...maybe because it's such an Americanism?
but 'green grocers' isn't an americanism
no of course
they somehow took OUR WORDS and made them dirty.
and although you used to have greengrocers
nobody called smaller food shops 'groceries'
weird
wow
I could probably throw a stone at your flat. Not that I'd do such a thing. I live in one of the long street workshops off waterson street.
i know
i like to watch you sleep
food shopping is what I'd say
'doing the weekly shop'
erm
Is that like 'doing the Lambeth Walk'?
Sustenance
the noun i usually use is 'booze'
or 'cigarettes'
just "shopping"
"have you been shopping?"
"i'm going to do the shopping"
"mum, you need to go for a shop, you've got nothing in"
*THE shopping
Off to Threshers
to do the weekly shop
why are you learning japanese?
i wish i knew japanese
just for fun
it's good! But the alphabet learning is well hard.
how funny
this exact same conversation happened to me a couple of weeks ago, except that i was the one who said grocery shopping, and my workmate said "we'd never call it that here" and i said "what would you call it?" and he said "probably just food shopping".
god my life is exciting.
Live with an american.
I live with a canadian so I now call it groceries. I also find myself saying 'the grocery store' which is frankly wrong. It's called wilkinsons and i know that.
As an American
This thread has caused me much laughter.
I dont know if this is
a Scottish thing or what. But my mum and now I myself often say I'm going to "get the messages" when I go food shopping. Am I alone? Please say I'm not.
It's a Scottish thing.
You should probably read Molly Weir's "Shoes Were for Sunday" to feel properly at home.
messages