rant

One thing that happens in American grocery stores and that really irritates me is that cashiers will comment on what you buy. Somehow they figure that if it comes down that conveyor belt it's fair game. Yesterday I had picked up a loaf of bread with olives in it. (It's really tasty.) The cash-out woman took one look. "That's interesting", she said.

As a comment "interesting" pretty much equals "different", I think. It's plain disapproving. So there I am, again, having to defend my taste to the person who is taking my money. Isn't there somehow something real un-American about that?