Picture the scene.
You’ve just rented your favourite movie on digital versatile disc and you’re shuffling down to Tesco to grab some juice, a bag of lemon bon bons and, of course, that all important pack of popcorn.
But what’s this?
Tesco have only gone and stopped stocking your most beloved corn-based snack!
There’s only one answer and that’s poetry.
Believe it or not dear readers, Tuesday’s Courier brings you the tale of the crafty Fife students who penned an impressive little ditty to the supermarket’s head office in a bid to get popcorn back on the menu.
To say they were surprised by the giant’s unusual response would be an understatement!
Sticking with a food in the post theme, we also bring you the tale of a brave and noble tortoise who made a somewhat terrifying journey from London to Courier Country taped to a cereal box.
Who says the free toys are no good these days?
In other news, a sketch of Harry Lauder is set to go under the hammer, a Perthshire pensioner who flouted a driving ban receives a harsher punishment and we reveal the nominations for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year.
There’s also details of Nicola Sturgeon’s first Cabinet meeting, tributes to a tragic Angus marine and a rundown of new anti-terror measures announced at Westminster.