Bowl Cover Thief on the Loose

Listen, people, en garde. Should you encounter a tall, mischievous-looking woman of Teutonic appearance in a hotel corridor, lurking near the maid's cart, just walk right on by. She's lifting plastic shower caps to use as bowl covers and means no real harm.

When she visits the U.S., bowl covers are high on her shopping list and she ferrets them out, somehow, somewhere. I remember bowl covers--they were big throughout my childhood, and maybe yours. Elasticized things in several sizes, that one's mother used to seal leftover mashies from drying out in the fridge.  Everyone had them, and no one thought bowl covers would ever become as scarce as hen's teeth, to quote an elderly friend of mine, but they did. Instead, we progressed on to embrace plastic wrap, until learning it was killing us with chemicals.

A few years ago I was stunned to see bowl covers hanging on an odd dispenser in the soup section of a major supermarket chain and I pounced on them, buying up several sets, and passing them on to friends. Today, looking into my wax paper and tin foil drawer, no bowl covers, not a one.

I remembered that in the early 1980's my sainted mother bought a few archaic things at the Vermont Country Store, like wood handled butter spreaders, and, YES, bowl covers.

They still have them, described as "Reusable 1950's Vinyl Bowl Covers." Did the copywriter intend to suggest that cartons of  actual 1950's bowl covers survived in an underground bomb shelter somewhere only to be discovered and handed off to the VCS for sale? Or not?

Of course, duh,  Google knows its bowl  covers--the copy with this polka dotted offering from Kitchenworks in fact, says, "They look just like shower caps!" 

So there.

Comments

[buy soma online]

Hahaha... all of you ladies are making me laugh. It is just a simple thing and your just making it bigger.

[Foodie]

Stop her!

[Teuton]

Oy, Teuton here:

It was only a few years ago in ABQ, that I bought some bowl covers . Different sizes, different colors. I am amazed they have disappeared and will check it out on our visit next winter/spring.

Back to the hotel corridors.

Bye.