A Slight Mistake
The habit—not altogether uncommon among customers in grocery stores—of sampling free of charge this, that and the other brought a surprise, and perhaps a lesson, to a young man who went into a Dunedin shop the other day to make a purchase. Espying on one of the counters what looked like an inviting and conveniently-sized piece of cheese, he popped it into his mouth, only to find when he closed his teeth on it that he was trying out a piece of laundry soap. The sequel, records the Otago Daily Times, was the hurried purchase and consumption of a bar of chocolate to remove the taste.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 10
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109A Slight Mistake Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21191, 14 August 1940, Page 10
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