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Tastes of Tuscany
My grocery store has recently remodeled, updated, and moved everything. Now I can’t find a thing in that store. But it sure is pretty. This week is their grand opening and the parking lot is festooned with strings of little flappy plastic flags—the kind often seen in used car parking lots. I thought that was kind of tacky, but whatever.
One of their grand improvements is a new computer system. Their cash registers now spit out coupons printed in color. With pretty graphics and all. The coupons are tailored to each individual shopper, thanks to the store rewards cards we get if we don’t want to pay the full outrageous prices. This must be a pretty good computer system because, for once, the coupons bear some resemblance to the stuff I actually buy. And color. I mentioned color, right? Dare we ponder just how much that upscale improvement is going to add to our grocery bills each week?
This week my colorful cash register coupons were all about cat food. My regular brand even. A whole $2 off a 3.3 pound bag. I’m delighted. I’ll use it.
But that coupon for Fancy Feast is something else again. I’ve never bought Fancy Feast for Abbie. Once in a great while I’ll buy her a can of Sheba, though. She thinks that’s the best stuff going and attacks it like she’d attack a mouse if she wasn’t afraid of it. I don’t give Sheba to her very often. Don’t want to spoil her too much. Besides, it’s ridiculously expensive.
This Fancy Feast coupon made me burst out laughing. The coupon is for a new line of Fancy Feast...their Elegant Medleys. I can save a whole dollar on 6 cans and my cat will love me for it because...these three new entrees are inspired by the tastes of Tuscany. Yes, that’s right. Tuscany. As if a cat would know Tuscany from Toledo. What does Tuscany taste like in cat food? The pretty color graphic on the coupon shows a fine china dish presenting the food so that it actually looks humanly appetizing...with a sprig of bright green parsley on the side. Serving suggestion, perhaps?
I think these new coupons are going to amuse me to no end. Now if they would just use those state of the art color printers to provide us with a road map showing where the heck they’ve moved everything. Really.
PS. You really need to click on the Elegant Medleys link. It’s just....well....I don’t quite know what to say. Except...have these people lost their minds? This is parody, right???
Except for those meat by-products (which are never described or defined), they sound good enough to serve at a dinner party for humans.
I am laughing like crazy cause, well cause, you see.........I bought elegant medleys for Dusty. I thought they sounded fitting for a Queen and queen she is!! Well, aside from being expensive (I had a bunch of coupons), I also think the cans are smaller. The food looks whipped and creamy and has lots of little green things in it. And eggs I think and lord knows what else. But it was attractive if cat food can be.......she chowed it down like there was no tomorrow and well, it rather upset her stomach.........she had, shall we say, quite an issue with gas--enough to empty a room....so no more elegant medley for her cause the Queen was not so elegant after that. Besides which, when you have company, no one ever believes the cat is the silent, yet deadly one. 
LOLOLOL Cyn! Oh my word, I just inhaled a half a cup of coffee. I agree. No one would ever suspect a cat. Musta been the spinach! 
Margaret, if you mouse over the female chef, you’ll be led to believe the ingredients contain only the choicest cuts of succulent fish and garden fresh spinach. I suspect, actually, that it might be a pretty good PR campaign to entice consumers who are still wary of canned cat food after the whole poisoning scare last year. Putting a more human face/touch on the food makes it seem safer, I guess.
Yes, I did mouse over the chef and got a good laugh from the images. Made me hungry just looking.
You have NO idea. For a tiny cat - and she is small, man, she can empty a room like you would not believe. Swallow your coffee before you read this...had an electrician in to give me an estimate on replacing a ton of lights in the house--I never do things by bits and pieces--always all or nothing. SO, she was running around, showing off, doing everything she could possibly do to be cute and fresh. Twice she nearly tripped him--this guy is about 6’4 with the pounds to match and she is, well, small. Maybe 10 pounds and black and fast. SO, finally he and I are downstairs, he says, “will you do something with her when I come to do the work?” I promised I would do something (I ended up taking her to work with me cause I did not know what else to do.......and that is another story!!). Anyway, we are negotiating and she was being hilarious, but I finally scooped her up to hang onto her--and she had one of her lovely little(??) gas explosions.........remember, I said ‘silent yet deadly’. Well, I about died cause there was no noise, but oh my god.......made your eyes water. My mother was sitting in the kitchen and about two seconds later, she started snickering cause she knew what had happened. Iwas dying of embarassment, this man started coughing and his eyes were watering. I did not know whether to laugh or cry or what........so I just pretended nothing was wrong. We finished our negotiations, he kept looking at me like I was a lunatic, I kept pretending everything was fine. I am sure he had no clue it was the damn cat. I was going to hire him anyway, but after that, I would have felt I HAD to!! Of course, after he left, I about rolled on the floor laughing remembering the look of horror on his face. OK, that’s your chuckle for the day!!
I’m glad you warned me to put my coffee down. 
You know, I’d have held her out away from me and said, “Oh Dusty! That’s terrible. You stinky cat you.” Oh yes I would. Under those circumstances, would not take the fall for a cat. Uh uh. LOL. I can picture it. Terry used to be able to clear a room like, too, and the expression on people’s faces was incredulous. How could any animal be that overwhelmingly fragrant. Abbie is, happily, very self contained. 
I like the intro music at the EM site. “It Had to be You?” Wow.
That’s some pretty remarkable marketing. It’s kind of awe inspiring, eh? I still think they’re nuts.