Whether through classic sketch comedies like The Carol Burnett Show, or veteran sitcoms like Married with Children and The King of Queens, supermarket scenarios provide fun food for thought. Yet none have registered as priceless a TV “item recall” as WWE.com’s No. 4 Most Memorable Moment in SmackDown History—watching “Stone Cold” Steve Austin perform an aisle-to-aisle cleanup of Booker T inside a Green Frog Market in Bakersfield, Calif.

It’s understandable why Mr. McMahon and his newest WWE Superstar were extremely antsy inside the Centennial Garden Arena for SmackDown December 13, 2001. In the past week, at Vengeance and on Raw, Booker T had deprived the Rattlesnake of two victories that would have awarded him the WWE Undisputed Championship. Despite a slew of security, an arena luxury suite to die for, and then-WWE co-owner Ric Flair’s assurances that they would enjoy the show, they were convinced Austin would somehow retaliate. Yet as the 121st edition of SmackDown progressed, Booker and Mr. McMahon eventually relaxed inside their surroundings, especially after a supposed catering mix-up brought Austin’s dinner to their suite.

A small fire on the catering tray would suddenly extinguish the two men’s good time, especially when fire officials entered the room to investigate. As the WWE Chairman verbally berated the firefighters for their seeming overreaction, neither he nor Booker noticed the one fireman removing his headgear—at least, not until all SmackDown fans realized that it was a very angry Stone Cold. Austin walloped Mr. McMahon before giving chase to Booker T, who booked out of the luxury suite, through the “What?”-chanting Centennial Garden crowd and all the way to the back, where he escaped in the limo he and McMahon had arrived in.

Unfortunately, Booker didn’t expect the Texas Rattlesnake to hop in his pickup truck and pursue him all the way to a local Green Frog Market (which bore the rather-fitting slogan “Always a Step Ahead”). He also wasn’t aware of the extensive, “What?”-laden shopping list Stone Cold had put together for a distraught Mr. McMahon and all SmackDown fans—“Some potato chips…Pop-Tarts…Lucky Charms…Moon Pies…Hungry-Man TV dinners…a case of beer…some Beefaroni…some chicken-fried steak…some of Good ol’ J.R.’s Barbecue Sauce…”—all topped off, of course, with a six-pack of pain for Booker himself.

From the instant the Bionic Redneck popped open a Steveweiser, Green Frog shoppers were treated to a supermarket slobberknocker. After freshly squeezing oranges across Booker’s face, Austin served some Grey Poupon all over the future King. Nuts, plants, potatoes, flour, eggs, crackers…Stone Cold made sure his adversary sampled just about everything the grocery store offered, even hitting him in the eye with a frozen pizza-pie to the tune of “That’s Amore.” Booker tried buying some time by trapping his attacker inside a walk-in freezer unit, but the Stone Cold assault continued as Austin emerged from a frozen-food display door and downed a gallon of milk (which wasn’t for doing his rival’s body good).

Laying a beaten, babbling Booker face-down onto a shopping cart, Austin wheeled his unwanted merchandise to the front of the store, then dumped him across a checkout counter and called out, “I need a price check on a jackass!” Hearing police sirens nearby, the Rattlesnake stomped one last mudhole before taking his leave, satisfied that he got what he wanted—a pound of crumpled flesh from the sobbing Booker T.  Watching on the TitanTron, SmackDown fans in the Centennial Garden Arena also noticeably enjoyed Stone Cold’s supermarket experience, as did Ric Flair, who consumed the beatdown with a visibly dissatisfied Vince McMahon. Laughing out loud, the exiting Nature Boy gave the WWE Chairman a hard slap on the back and said, “I told you you’d enjoy the show!”