While on the subject of shopping lists, a whole several of years ago I bought a two billion mark note at a flea market, date of issue November 1924 (and you thought inflation got bad under Thatcher!). It is printed on one side of rather cheap paper. On the other side, in extremely faded red pencil, is a shopping list of some half a dozen items. Unfortunately, the only item I have been able to make out is "brot", which I assume is bread. The rest is too faint to decipher, even if I could read German (which, being a typically ignorant monoglot Englishman, I can't)