The Deleted Scenes

The Deleted Scenes

The Salad Bar and the International Supermarket

The eeriness of familiar things repurposed

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 31, 2021
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If you’ve read every post and tweet I write (no, I don’t expect you to!), you might have come across a couple of photos I’ve posted, and remarks I’ve made, about salad bars or steam tables in supermarkets during the pandemic/lockdown.

A couple of weeks ago, for example, I tweeted this, when one of them finally reopened:

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