I settled for the mozzarella
Wow young 2008 Peg, look at all that chatting in the grocery store in response?
Now in life, you work with CPG and your response would be shorter, using the conversation as an opportunity to demolish the man with tips on how he can learn to cook for himself and how your boyfriend makes things easy with a weekly menu and there's a general house understanding of our family restaurant called smokin burgers. (It offers fun items like foil wrapped burgers to go to the beach.)
So now, you approach grocery stores and most retail like an art museum.
You'll look at packaging for drinks, like new energy drinks in a Walmart, amazed. Mind blown that the shelves look awful these days, the cost is high, some products are amazing looking and not even getting attention. Ugh, you were..sexier you shelves. An old little Peg memory having to write 100x "I will NOT run through Publix pulling out the coupons." (You know when they had those coupon dispensers in the 90s?)
*Snap snap, reference for xyz CPG person when we discussed beverages. Texting and emailing images, check these fonts out right? Let me remind you this Liquid Death stuff is for the suburban baby boys, think about it deeper. Shocking to abuela, emotional neglect things, but top notch initial shock factor just at an Ed Hardy level...let's go bigger on the art please within brand guidelines.*
Boyfriend: Do you want those drinks you're holding?
Me: Oh hell no, this is expensive and inflation for this SKU this seems high right? I do want to scan more QR codes, let me at least see what they use it for because this one is interesting...
Then of all the talking you could do, it's only going to take this one time.
One time your boyfriend says "Inflation!" and it somehow rockets through a Villages Publix sending signal to an angry senior making their way down the aisle.
"Uh huh, Joe Biden's America! BIDEN!" the man shouts, nodding and adjusting his Vietnam vet cap as he now angrily passes us.
Me: See what you did? Just stop commenting on the inflation stuff, it's hard for so many people baby. They have kids wanting to play in the gambling of Zuru surprises that make everyone cry. We're just all dying.
Boyfriend: Be a Positive Peg about it though right?
Me: Okay yeah you know what, buy this one. I'm going to expense it, study it, even drink it.