We love to try new things. Once we bought, on a whim, something called a cactus pear. It didn't look like it had pricklies on it. But they were there, too small and thin to be seen. And they didn't come off until we started trying to peel the damned thing. Hurt like a mofo, we were in pain for days afterwords. Two. Words: Never. Again.

And sometimes we buy things that we really shouldn't because we don't eat them often. Like fresh spinach. We eat a little of it and then the rest goes to rot. So we voted that Alexander do most of the shopping.