So I have settled into a pattern. I go down the road a half mile to Meijer, our mega-store. I find it enjoyable to just ride the little handicap electric carts around the store, checking out the 479,000 items in the store. (I asked) I like to look for the orange stickers that mean clearance price. Sometimes it is the $7 jar of BBQ sauce marked down to $4.50. yeah, right. But today I found Keebler triple chocolate chip cookies for half price. Saw gourmet soup, comes in a mylar bag. $7 down to $3. Had Salmon chowder, crab bisque, and a couple other interesting ones.
ANyway, riding around last night I remembered...Halvah. I haven't had that in decades. I recall I used to like Halvah, for about half a package, then it cloyed on me. But I thought it might be interesting. I looked in the dairy case among the cheeses and butters, and yogurts. Nope. I looked in the meat section between lunch meat and horseradish. Nope. I looked in teh deli section between little cheeses, prosciutto, and other things. Nope.
SO eventually I came upon one of the necktie guys talking to an employee. I stopped near them, and after a moment one asked me if I needed help. I said yes, I was wondering if this store sold Halvah. The necktie responded "Maybe, what is it used for?"
Odd way to put it. I explained it was for eating, a confection made with sesame seed paste. "Oh, so you need sesame paste?" No, it is like candy, it comes in bars you cut off pieces of. SO necktie flagged a passing uniform, and off we went to dairy. The woman looked all over the cookie dough, the flan and pudding, and other sweets, but no Halvah. I said I could believe they don;t have it. She said it would have to be here if they did.
SO now I have Halvah in my head.
But not in my mouth.