Misty, you didn't sign your name, but it showed up in your message anyway.  
I'm curious about your curator's collecting strategy.  Is the grocery store 
exhibit a real possibility or is it just a casual idea?  Since you'd need a lot 
of "props" to stock such a display, it seems to me that you'd want to postpone 
collecting until the exhibit concept got closer to reality.  If the salad 
dressing is intended for the permanent collection as an example of a ca. 1985 
consumer artifact (which might or might not go on exhibit someday), that's one 
thing, but, if your museum has the typical storage limitations of most museums, 
I'd think that stocking up on miscellaneous unaccessioned "props" to fit 
miscellaneous undeveloped exhibit ideas would be, well, premature and a potential 
storage burden.  

David Haberstich

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