From a newsgroup post dated January 15, 2010:
You know those overhead signs in supermarkets that tell you what’s in which aisle? There are several variations, but I assume you know roughly what I’m talking about.
Safeway, at least around here, has them arranged to list a category, and then three items in that category you’ll find on that side of that aisle, such as:
DAIRY
==
Yogurt
Eggs
Butter
or maybe
DINNER
==
Pasta
Sauces
Canned meats
Well, tonight we stopped into a Safeway down in Washington to grab a couple of things, and Aisle 2’s left-hand sign read:
BREAKFAST
==
Beer
And
Beer
I suppose there might be some innocent explanation, that they moved the beer there from somewhere else and didn’t bother to change the top line, but still…
And that “and” just somehow makes it perfect; it’s not just beer, it’s beer and beer.
For breakfast.