WHAT'S IN MY CART?? A game for all of us.

in #contest6 years ago (edited)

Market Basket is a legendary super market chain servicing Massachusetts and New Hampshire in the United States of America 🇺🇸 , and I was there the other day buying some things.

Maybe we can play a game.

Whoever names the most items in the cart wins!

It's best to be as specific as possible. For example, "5 red onions" is better than "5 onions". Or the brand. "Hunt's ketchup" is better than "ketchup". But partial credit will be given, so it's still good to say ketchup and get the brand wrong.

Incorrect guesses carry no penalty for up to three incorrect guesses. After that, you start to lose a point for an incorrect guess.

(This is just to prevent against spray and praying every grocery item that exists. If you say "Hunt's ketchup", and it's actually a different brand, that's fine. Incorrect guess is only when that item totally wasn't in there.)


One of the staff members was aggressively quick to ask me if I needed help finding anything, and then he needled me for my footwear.

"bold footwear choice", he told me.

I think he just wanted to comment on that and wasn't concerned whether I needed help.

I gave him a little speech about how it surprisingly works, how I tested it before I left and I didn't even realize you'd be able to wear socks with flip-flops and still walk comfortably, and actually you can.

I don't know, I think it's a strong choice.

Fashion has a lot of levels to it, and deliberately going faux-pas can work.

Tough love from the store attendant tho. Sometimes at Market Basket there's a feeling of camaraderie in the air.


That guy on the phone there was doing the thing where he was sort of in between lanes in his mind, like his cart was tilted and he was ready to move if the other lane started to seem faster. But then I took that lane and he straightened out.

He wasn't doing anything wrong, and neither was I. Just two shoppers shopping properly.

anyways, back to the contest

Winner will receive five 100% upvotes from me, paid out gradually over a couple weeks or so. Plus I'll make a post announcing you as the winner, so you get the glory.

(If you're someone who I upvote a lot anyways I'll probably dig thru your comments and upvote random comments, so that you actually win something on top of the votes you'd get anyways.)

All you have to do is name the items. And also, take a guess at the total cost of the items. In case there's a tie, total cost will be the tiebreaker.

I'll also give one 100% upvote to whoever gets closest to the cost.

Best wishes, and good luck. 🍀👍

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I think it's -EV to post early but whatever

Three Plantains
One container Twister Fruit Punch
One red powerade
One bottle ketchup
One pepper grinder (?)
One Vegan cookbook
One jar olives
One Container Ice Cream, Ben & Jerry's
One jar beans, Goya
One can of iced tea, Arizona
One tomato, red
One cookbook, olives-specific
One container Dole fruit cocktail

Cost is $41.78 on the strength of the cookbooks.

Definitely is -EV to post early but I appreciate you being a sport!

I probably should refine the rules in some way if we do this contest again.

For now, what I think I'll do is give some honorable mention and a 2nd, subjective prize, if it seems like anyone did really good but lost only to the advantage of posting late.

I'll do a reveal and grade the answers 72 hours after the post was made!

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Left to right starting at the top..

Some hippy drink
Buncha really unripe bananas or plaintain?..
A mini bongo drum or spice crusher 🤔
Vegan fake chicken patties
Something else no idea?

Can of chickpeas?
Tomato pasta sauce
Red? Powerade *hard to tell this is a low quality shot man lol
Lil can of mushrooms. Idk it's not Canadian packaging I'm trying here..
Ketchup
Pickles
Extra small condoms
2 pints of ice cream. One B and J's
Six qiwi
Twister fruit punch

Nailed it!

Socks and thong sandals shouldn't happen my friend, ever! Lol

Haahah epic answer .. low quality camerawork is part of the challenge!! baha

I thought about giving a second angle, but figured it was better to err on too tough than too easy

Grading the answers will come 72 hours from when the post was made

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3 unripe plantain fingers
1 brown mortar and pestle (packed)
1 large sized bulb of red tomato
1 pack of Quorn Spicy Chicken patties (vegan)
1 pack of twister fruit punch
1 container of twister fruit punch
1 container of so delicious chocolate drizzled banana foster
1 container of Ben and Jerry's chocolate ice cream (nudge brown, non dairy)
1 jar of olives
1 can of dole fruit cocktail (pineapples ?)
1 bag of kiwi
1 cookbook, olives specific
1 bottle of tomato sauce
1 red Powerade (591 ml)
1 can of Goya beans
1 can of Arizona Iced tea
1 pack of vegan pizza

Pretty sick. I can't say whether you're in the lead or not, and actually can't even tell off the top of my head..

Scores will come out 72 hours after the original post! (But you've already read that in other comments.. cheater)

I mentioned twister fruit punch twice. Kindly ignore one

cheater

Hahahaha

I was wondering about that. I wasn't sure if "pack" was different than "container" and you thought there were two.

Noted. Will ignore.

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1 tomato
4 plantains
1 mortar and pestle
1 pack of vegan patties
1 pack of vegan pizza
A 32 oz Powerade
1 can of Goya beans
1 bottle of ketchup - likely organic
1 can of Dole pineapple
1 bottle of olives
1 container of so delicious ice cream
1 container of Ben Jerry’s
1 bag of kiwis
1 container of twister fruit punch

1 fun game of find my groceries

1 fun game of find my groceries

😃😃

Thanks for playing!

I'm really enjoying all these answers lol.

I'll do the reveal and the scores 72 hours after the post was made!

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Comes around, looks into the cart, shakes head, walks away

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Hahha nooo00ooo you should play 😞

You're probably not familiar with the brands and stuff :/ I forgive you

But imagine if you won? It'd be epic

Fine.

Just know you're forcing me to cheat as I'll be sampling other people's entries

Ya, the contest was designed with that shortcoming to it, so it's not even cheating, it's just using one of the options at your disposal

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