Page 4 NORTHWEST HERALD Section B Wednesday, August 21,1985 Food Ode to shopping: Winning store sonnets By Martin Sloane I often watch other shoppers race up and down supermarket aisles, some with great vigor and obvious pleasure. Naomi Spigle of Mishawaka, Ind., the grand-prize winner of my Fourth Annual Supermarket Shop- _^---per*Poelfy €ompetition, has cap tured the spirit of just such a shopper. The poem has no title, but in this column it doesn't really need one: Have you heard of this wonderful shopper, So proficient that no one can top 'er? She can handle her cart, With such skill and such art, Nothing less than an earthquake could stop 'er. Down the produce-filled aisles she will dash, Grabbing veggies and fruit in a flash. Then to seafood and fish, For a lush gourmet dish, Adding canned goods and pasta and hash. With her cart barely touching the floor, She buys oatmeal and crackers and more. Choosing chickens and chops, Plucking sponges and mops, She's the customer stock boys adore! With her coupons clutched tight in her fist, She dispenses with memo or list. She can price by the ounce, And her checks never bounce, There is nothing worth buying she's missed! Second prize goes to Judy Knight of Norway, Maine, for her poem "Produce Lament": We're brothers and sisters in this aisle, Fresh produce we are called. Spinach green and lettuce crisp, And turnips that are bald. We watch the shoppers as they pass, All hoping they won't stop. For when they do, they pinch the grapes, Or thump the melon's top. Or even worse, they poke the plums, Or shake the kiwi fruit. Then down the aisle they go a ways, And squeeze the pears, to boot! We breathe a sigh when lights go dim, The store's closed, our minds mesh. We're so abused, mishandled, hurt -- Yet we're the ones called "fresh." CLIP 'N' FILE REFUNDS (Week of Aug.18) Cosmetics, Grooming Aids (File No. ll-C) Clip out this file and keep it with similar qash-off coupons -- bever age refund offers with beverage coupons, for example. Start collect ing the needed proofs of purchase while looking for the required forms at the supermarket, in newspapers and magazines, and when trading with friends. Offers may not be available in all areas of the country. Allow 10 weeks to receive each refund. The following refund offers are worth $10.59. This week's offers have a total value of $25.59. FLEX Mousse $1.59 Refund Offer. Send the required refund form and the "R" disc from the overcap of Flex Styling Mousse (5 ounces), along with the original dated cash- register receipt with the purchase price circled. Expires Oct. 15,1985. L'ERIN Makeup $1 Refund Offer. Send the required refund form and the Universal Product Code symbol from one Moisture Fresh Liquid Makeup, full size only, along with the cash-register receipt with the purchase price circled. Expires Sept. 30,1985. LILT Buy One, Get One Free Of fer. Receive a coupon good for one free Lilt, any form. Send the re quired refund form and the bottom panel from one box of Lilt. This offer has no expiration date. NUTRA Rebate Offer. Receive up to a $2 rebate. Send the required refund form and two Universal Product Codes from any Nutra Nail, Nutra Gloss or Nutra Fix cartons for $2; or send one Universal Prod uct Code from any Nutra Nail, Nu tra Gloss or Nutra Fix cartons for $1. Expires Sept 30,1985. SALLY HANSEN "Body Beauti ful" $1 Rebate Offer. Send the re quired refund form and the product name identification from the front of a Sally Hansen Bleach or Hair Remover product. Expires Dec. 31, 1985. SUAVE Mousse Free Offer. Re ceive a store coupon good for a free full-size package of Suave Styling Mousse. Send the required refund form and twist off the spout from your can of Suave Styling Mousse to send as your proof of purchase. There is a limit of one offer per household. This offer has no expira tion date. Here's a refund form to write for: A $2 refund. COMTREX $2 Refund Offer, P.O. Box 14917, Baltimore, MD 21268. This offer expires Dec. 31, 1985, but requests for the form vmust be received by Oct. 31, 1985. While waiting for the form, save one entire outer carton from any Com- trex product (except trial size), along with your cash-register re ceipt with the purchase price circled. CUP 'N' FILE REFUNDS (Week of Aug. 18) Miscellaneous Non-Food Products (File No. 12-A) The following refund offers are worth $15. This offer does not require a re fund form: TURTLE WAX Power Line Wheel Products, Box NB 792, El Paso, TX 79977. Receive a $2 refund. 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