Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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New Grocery Comedy: Paper Or Plastic?

Posted Nov 28, 2006 by Jeff Houck

Updated Nov 28, 2006 at 07:51 AM

TV doesn’t do a lot of non-Food Network shows with food as a central theme or setting.

Oh, every now and again you’ll get a bar (“Cheers”) or a restaurant (“Alice.”). And occasionally you’ll get an episode that uses food to great effect (“Seinfeld”‘s Soup Nazi episode comes to mind), but those are few and far between, what with all the forensic science and deals-or-no-deals being explored on an hourly basis.

Tonight could mark a turning point.

The Tribune’s Walt Belcher writes that the new 11 p.m. TBS comedy “10 Items or Less” follows “the misadventures of the nutty workers at a small grocery store. It’s like a light version of ‘The Office.’”

Not a bad description for a show to have.

Tonight’s episode: Leslie’s father passes away, he moves back to Ohio to continue to run the family’s business- the Greens and Grains supermarket. To Leslie’s surprise, Amy Anderson, the manager of the competitor Super Value Mart, tries to close a deal she made with Leslie’s dad to buy Greens and Grains from Leslie. He doesn’t sell.

Hmmm. Doesn’t sound hilarious. Then again, show descriptions rarely do