According to wikipedia, the US Forces dropped 2.4 million pop-tarts on Afghanistan in 2001. Currently, you can only buy two out of the total of forty-three flavours of pop tarts in the UK, those being Chocolate and Strawberry. There is no information on wikipedia as to what flavours native Afghan’s received in 2001.
I woke up this morning with very little on my agenda, and decided to take myself to the local Sainsburys – the posh end of the supermarket spectrum. It’s about twenty minutes walk from here, and that’s a good stretch for my leg (which is healing nicely, thanks).
When I got to the supermarket there was a stall giving away free yogurt outside – something you don’t find at Morrisons. Trying one of the yogurts, I was asked my opinion by one of the pair of people running the stall.
“It’s a bit gloopey”, I replied. They looked blankly at me.
“What do you mean?” asked the girl behind the stall, looking puzzled. Now, I swear I’m not making the word gloopey up. I’ve heard it somewhere else, surely. Even if I had, it’s not like it would be impossible to guess what it could mean in relation to yogurt.
On the other hand – and I don’t want to be rude here – but if you spend your day giving out free yogurt to people, I’m pretty sure you don’t want a breakdown of how words are created from onomatipea. And honestly, I was pretty afraid of explaining the word ‘onomatipea’, which I only learned because I had to do an English AS Level in 2000.
