The other day, I was buying groceries at The Store, and I watched all my selections travel down the conveyor belt. The cashier scanned everything one at a time and slid it down to the bag man (sometimes our bag people are men who look as if they have retired from grander jobs and now bag groceries just for something to do). Anyway, we got down to the last few items, and the cashier picked up a plastic bag containing two small oblong looking vegetable things. They were whitish with green ends, and they had leaves you could pull off. That's exactly what I was going to do with them--I was going to trim the leaves and mound them with smoked salmon spread. I like these little natural spoon like things--they're great with tapenade or crabmeat salad. So, the cashier held up the bag and asked, "what are these?" I know what those are, for Pete's sake. I purposely put them in the plastic bag and tied the end in a knot. I tossed them in my cart and brought them to the convey...