I'm watching Supermarket Superstar now and I'm liking it. It reminds me of business school much more than I would have guessed, which is oddly appealing. I gather it'll be a different type of product every week, so that should be interesting.

They could do with a whole lot less of the contestant's talking heads, but I almost always think that with competition shows.

That A&P is the chain that the winners will be in is making me nostalgic for Alpha Betas and K&B. I know that makes no sense, but there it is.

Also, I had no idea there was a real life Mrs. Fields.

Really?!

The weird thing is I grew up with A&P but I haven't seen one around here for years.

To be fair, I barely know there is a Mrs. Fields brand, but I generally assume branded personalities are fictional.

I am under the impressions that A&P covers a much smaller area than they used to - I know we had them in Baton Rouge when I was a kid, but I don't think they are there anymore. So I start off nostalgic for them, but then that Cake song about the Alpha Beta parking lot horns in and all nostalgic retail musings eventually end up with K&B, I guess.

Moving on to Top Chef Masters. I don't think I know any of these chefs by name.

I don't know about the sous chef thing. I guess it makes sense, but I won't be watching the online competition and I hope that won't be like not doing my homework for this show.

With you on the sous chef thing.

But, how many producers crapped their pants when David Burke ended up in the bottom three on the first ep? Meanwhile Baby Voltaggio gets a basket of carrots and raisins and pulls out a top three.

Yeah, that can't have been the plan. Though maybe they were all "Woo-hoo, America won't see that coming!"

Taking away their knives was one hell of an obstacle!

I kind of want to go sky-diving. But none of those dishes made me hungry, which surprises me. I wish they would recap what each chef made when they do the top 3 and bottom 3 critiques, I have no idea what one of the top dishes was.

Too bad about the oysters, that just seems unfortunate. At least he didn't have to pack his knives without using them, I guess.

Eta: I take that back about none of the dishes making me drool, the beet salad sounds really good.

It's the older Voltaggio, no? The younger one won their season.

My local supermarket chain just got bought by Albertson's, speaking of supermarkets. I had just been wondering if there were national supermarkets, and I guess it turns out there are, they just have different names.

SYTYCD: I thought the girls were especially good this week.

And I'm very relived about the eliminations. Sad t see them go, but there were better people who needed to stay.

My thoughts, too, quester.